Published on September 20, 2024
Sex workers are habitually denied opportunities to participate in international human rights platforms, such as the HRC. Many of us are refused visas and lack funding to travel and participate in UN processes. Human rights are universal. You cannot promote the human rights of some people while excluding others.
Published on September 19, 2024
The study is crucial in a context of willful denial by many Global North states of the right to development, its collective dimensions, and its aim of ending economic colonialism and dependency - the same states that directly benefit from our unequal international economic order.
Published on September 16, 2024
Instead of continuing on this destructive path, he challenges us all to rethink the ways in which water is valued, managed and utilized in order to strengthen communities, to repair our poisoned ecosystems and to better understand the connections between water, territory and our bodies.
Published on September 13, 2024
Los Estados que imponen sanciones aseguran que éstas se proponen mejorar las vidas de las mujeres y otras personas marginadas, pero siguen desestimando la evidencia de que las sanciones agravan la opresión de género, raza y clase.
Published on September 13, 2024
Sanctioning States claim that sanctions aim to improve women’s and other marginalized people's lives and continue to dismiss the evidence that they deepen gender, race and class marginalization.
Published on September 13, 2024
También valoramos mucho la referencia a la Convención Interamericana sobre los Derechos de las Personas Mayores, porque en su enfoque integral incluye los derechos sexuales. Las personas mayores, incluyendo las personas LGBT, así como las personas con discapacidad, a menudo son tratadas como si no tuvieran una vida sexual.
Published on September 13, 2024
Older persons, including LGBT ones, as well as persons with disabilities are often treated as if they did not have a sexual life. LGBT older persons are discriminated against in residencies and by their families. Their autonomy is frequently violated, including in deciding where and with whom to live and even preventing them from having a sexual life.
Published on September 12, 2024
We appreciate the Special Rapporteur’s efforts to hear directly from sex workers in Canada who are experts in their own lives and have solutions to the harms caused by the criminalization of sex work. This is a fundamental principle of human rights - those who are most impacted have a right to participate in the decisions that affect them. We urge Canada and other Special Procedure mandates to heed this principle.
Published on September 11, 2024
Si no se abordan los sistemas de opresión, los derechos humanos son un sueño lejano. Dada la urgente necesidad de reformar la arquitectura financiera global, ¿cómo pueden asegurar el Consejo y otros actores que los esfuerzos por promover los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales no seguirán siendo superficiales? Si los sistemas financieros que provocan las desigualdades globales quedan intactos, será sólo una lavada de cara.
Published on September 11, 2024
Without addressing oppressive systems, particularly the global financial architecture and its impact, human rights are a distant dream. Given the urgent need to reform the global financial architecture, how can the HRC and other actors ensure that efforts to promote economic, social, and cultural rights do not remain superficial? If the underlying financial systems driving global inequalities are not addressed, it will all remain window-dressing.