The 50th session of the Universal Periodic Review will take place from 03 November to 14 November 2025. 14 Countries are under review during the session: Belarus, Liberia, Malawi, Mongolia, Panama, Maldives, Andorra, Bulgaria, Honduras, the United States of America, the Marshall Islands, Croatia, Jamaica and Libya. In collaboration with our partners, the SRI submitted reports for Malawi and the United States of America.
Malawi
Collaborators: Feminist Macro-economical Alliance - Malawi (FEAM) and the Sexual Rights Initiative
Key Words: Gendered austerity; women’s rights; sexual and reproductive health and rights; right to education; right to health; right to work; right to just and favourable conditions of work; child marriage; adolescent pregnancy; comprehensive sexuality education
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Collaborators: African Sex workers Alliance (ASWA), Community Health Rights Advocacy (CHeRA) and the Sexual Rights Initiative
Key Words: rights of sex workers, criminalisation of sex work, right to health, HIV/AIDS, criminalisation of consensual same-sex relationships, rights of LGBT+ people
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United States of America
Collaborators: An anonymous human rights defender from the United States of America and the Sexual Rights Initiative
Key Words: Acceptance of international norms, sexual and reproductive health and rights, sex work; sexual orientation / gender identity and gender expression; asylum / refugee / immigration; equality and non-discrimination, abortion, LGBT, right to bodily autonomy; academic freedom, human rights defenders, right to public participation, right to quality education, freedom of expression, freedom of association
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Collaborators:The Sex Worker Rights Coalition and the Sexual Rights Initiative
Key Words: Right to work, developmental aid and assistance, rights of sex workers, rights of transgender and gender expansive persons, HIV/AIDS, access to health services, rights of migrant sex workers
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