Acción en Canadá por la Salud y los Derechos Sexuales

Request for Expressions of Interest: Consultancy Services: Communications support

Published on April 12, 2023

The key objective of this consultancy is to support the communications and knowledge translation work of the Geneva office. The consultant will be responsible for creating and delivering content in accessible ways via diverse communications tools and platforms (including website, social media, and earned media); and documenting the challenges, successes, opportunities, and learnings of inter-linked advocacy in global, regional, and national policy processes.

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Find out how to engage with UN human rights mechanisms, collaborate with the SRI, or stay up-to-date.
Press Release: African Court denies civil society access to justice

Published on September 30, 2017

The African Court denies civil society access to justice and fails to pronounce on the independence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

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Civil society participation

Women human rights defenders
Briefing on the 25th session of the UN HRC

Published on February 27, 2014

The 25th session of the UN Human Rights Council will take place from March 3 – 28 2014. The first week of the four-week session will comprise of a ‘High-level segment’ during which high-level dignitaries will address the Council.

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Rights of the child

Economic justice

Gender equality
About Us

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The Sexual Rights Initiative is a coalition of national and regional organizations based in Canada, India, Egypt, Argentina, that work together to advance human rights related to sexuality at the United Nations.
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Launch of the UN Advocacy Tool

Published on February 26, 2021

Please join us as we present the newly improved and updated UN Advocacy Tool. This database compiles UN intergovernmental resolutions, expert guidance and technical information on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). It has been re-designed and updated to facilitate advocacy, research and policymaking, and to contribute to accountability for SRHR obligations and commitments.

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Save the Date! “Maternal Mortality: Implementation and Accountability”

Published on August 28, 2013

Parallel event entitled “Maternal Mortality: Implementation and Accountability: Guidance on Using a Human Rights Approach in the Context of the Post 2015 Agenda” taking place alongside the 24th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Maternal Mortality: Implementation and Accountability:
Guidance on Using a Human Rights Approach in the Context of the Post 2015 Agenda

11 September 2013, 13h00-15h00

Palais de Nation, Geneva, Room XXIV

Lunch will be served

(Une interprétation en français sera disponible)

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Maternal mortality and morbidity

Accountability
Call for collaborations : Universal Periodic Review

Published on June 08, 2023

For UPR 45 (deadline 18 July) - we are interested in supporting English-language submissions by feminist activists in the review of the following countries: Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Mauritius, Jordan, Central African Republic, Monaco, Chad, Congo, and Malta.

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Sex work

Sexual orientation and gender identity

Gender-based violence

Gender equality
Special Procedures: Opportunities for feminist engagement

Published on October 27, 2022

In between Human Rights Council sessions, there are many ways activists, movements and organisations can engage the UN human rights system to advance further their advocacy. In this post, we focus on recent calls for inputs by Special Procedures that provide avenues for feminist engagement.

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Right to development

Gender-based discrimination

Right to health
Twitter Chat: Why a special mechanism on SOGI will set the movement back

Published on June 08, 2016

Join the Sexual Rights Initiative and our partner, the Coalition for African Lesbians for a Twitter chat this Thursday June 9th on Autonomy and Intersectionality: Why a special mechanism on sexual orientation and gender identity will set back movements on sexuality and gender at the Human Rights Council.

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Sexual orientation and gender identity

Bodily autonomy
Race Matters Webinar: race and gender within UN mechanisms

Published on August 06, 2020

Race Matters: Examining the workings of race and gender in the UN human rights system, August 13 2020 at 4pm CEST

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Calendar of reviews for 2nd cycle of the UPR

Published on September 04, 2013

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council is used to review each of the 193 Member States of the United Nations (UN) on its entire human rights record every four and a half years. Although relatively new, it is a powerful tool to hold governments accountable for sexual and reproductive rights violations, and to advocate for changes to particular laws and policies that impact on human rights related to sexuality. The 1st cycle (sessions 1-12) of the UPR began in 2008 and ended in 2011.

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Sexual and reproductive health and rights
HRC 47 side event - From exception to expediency: Feminist perspectives on sexual rights violations during COVID-19

Published on July 02, 2021

As the events related to the pandemic unfolded over 2020, the partners of the Sexual Rights Initiative sought to capture some of the key developments in sexual and reproductive rights – from restrictive measures and moral policing to the force of protests rocking many parts of the world.

Halfway through 2021, as we struggle with the increasing polarization of the world along established colonial and class lines, we would like to gather to both share information and perspectives and to collectively develop strategies for continuing to fight for sexual and reproductive rights in different regional and national contexts as well as globally.

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Sexual rights
Sign-on to the HRC 48 Civil Society Statement on Abortion

Published on September 13, 2021

In support of the upcoming International Safe Abortion Day on September 28, civil society organisations have developed a joint statement on abortion rights for delivery at the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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Abortion
New web platform to uphold the universality of rights in the face of rising threats

Published on April 15, 2016

The Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs) is pleased to announce the launch of its web platform: oursplatform.org The platform will be the go-to place for information and resources on safeguarding the universality of rights in international and regional human rights spaces.

A new collaborative project

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Disability, Sexuality, and Holding States Accountable: Local and Global Strategies

Published on June 08, 2018

CREA, Women Enabled International, Shanta Memorial Rehabilitation Centre, Center for Reproductive Rights, and Sexual Rights Initiative

Cordially invite you to a side event to the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD Disability, Sexuality, and Holding States Accountable:

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Sexual and reproductive health and rights

Sexual rights

Accountability

Disability
46th session of the Human Rights Council Item 8 General Debate Federation for Women and Family Planning

Uploaded on March 25, 2021

Civil society participation is core to the Council’s mandate4 and an essential principle of any human rights-based approach. It cannot continue to be treated as an afterthought in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, the HRC efficiency process, and the UN budget crisis.

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What to expect at UPR 46

Published on April 26, 2024

The 46th session of the Universal Periodic will take place from 29 April to 10 May 2024. All of the review sessions will be live-streamed on UN Web TV. 14 Countries are under review during the session: New Zealand, Afghanistan, Chile, Cyprus, Uruguay, Yemen, Vanuatu, North Macedonia, Comoros, Slovakia, Eritrea, Viet Nam, Dominican Republic and Cambodia.

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Why is the revolution in Poland happening now, and what is the role of SRHR issues in it?

Uploaded on July 02, 2021

The revolution is feminist in its postulates as well and the key demand is the dismissal of the government. However the Women’s Strike, which organised the protests, formulated five key areas for change; these are: full spectrum of access to SRHR, a secular state, implementation of the Istanbul Convention, improvement of the material conditions of women and making Poland an inclusive and non-discriminating country.

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Sexual and reproductive health and rights

Sexual rights