The 48th session of the Universal Periodic will take place from 20 to 31 January 2025. 14 Countries are under review during the session: Italy, the Gambia, Fiji, Kazakhstan, Iran, El Salvador, Bolivia, San Marino, Angola, Madagascar, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq and Egypt. In collaboration with our partners, the SRI submitted reports for Angola and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has been working since 2002 to strengthen and protect basic rights and freedoms in Egypt, through research, advocacy and supporting litigation in the fields of civil liberties, economic and social rights, and criminal justice.
Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA) is a feminist human rights organisation based in New Delhi, India. It is one of the few international women’s rights organisations based in the global South, led by Southern feminists, which works at the grassroots, national, regional, and international levels. Together with partners from a diverse range of human rights movements and networks, CREA works to advance the rights of women and girls, and the sexual and reproductive freedoms of all people.
Akahatá | Working Team on Sexualities and Genders is a group of experienced and recognized activists from Latin America who joined together in 2011 to work on the promotion, protection and development of human rights related to sexual rights and reproductive rights. To accomplish its mission, Akahatá promotes dialogue, exchanges of experience and develops strategies and research, organizes training programs and undertakes advocacy to develop human rights, including sexual rights, of all people.
The Foundation for Women and Family Planning advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights including the right to legal abortion, access to modern contraception and sexuality education, at the national, regional and international levels. It conducts permanent monitoring of the observance of human rights in Poland and informs public opinion and relevant institutions in the country and abroad about the results.
We echo the report’s call on States to repeal all laws and policies that penalise individuals for structural inequality, and to move away from punitive and carceral approaches.
There is overwhelming evidence showing that the criminalisation of drug use and of sex work is deeply discriminatory, disproportionately affecting people on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity and class. It also increases exposure to physical and sexual violence. It is also used as a driver of other harmful policies, for instance by restricting access to safe housing and shelter, as well as to safe places of work and labour rights for sex workers.
