UPR23: Joint stakeholder submissions in collaboration with national organizations

Published on October 30, 2015

The 23rd session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) will take place at the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, from 2-13 November 2015.

Fourteen countries will be reviewed during the session, including: Micronesia, Lebanon, Mauritania, Nauru, Rwanda, Nepal, Saint Lucia, Oman, Austria, Myanmar, Australia, Georgia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Sao Tome and Principe.

The Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) collaborated with national NGOs and activists in five countries up for review to prepare eight stakeholder submissions:
 

Georgia

  • SRI, HERA-XXI Report focus: safe abortion, access to contraception and the rights of sex workers
  • SRI, Real People Real Vision Report focus: comprehensive sexuality education, sexual rights, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation; sexual violence; domestic violence; gender based violence; marital rape; young women and girls.

 

Lebanon

 

Nepal

 

Rwanda

 

St. Lucia

 

Adoption of UPR reports: March 2016

The outcome report for each State under Review during UPR23 will be adopted at the 31st session of the Human Rights Council in March 2016. At this time, it will be known which recommendations the State under review will agree to implement. This is the only opportunity for civil society to make an oral statement during the official UPR process. The SRI, in collaboration with partners and allies, will work to ensure that sexual and reproductive rights are visible in the lead up to and during this segment of the UPR process.

More info about the UPR

The UPR mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council is used to review each of the 193 Member States of the UN on its entire human rights record every four and a half years. The Sexual Rights Initiative has launched a Universal Periodic Review (URP) Sexual Rights database. To gain access to the Database, please send an email to [email protected] containing the following information: your name, the name of your organization (if any), your email address, the name and email address of a reference (either an SRI partner, or known to one).