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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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Published on September 13, 2021
En apoyo al próximo Día Internacional del Aborto Seguro el 28 de septiembre, las organizaciones de la sociedad civil han elaborado una declaración conjunta sobre el derecho al aborto para entregarla en la 48ª sesión del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU en Ginebra.
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Published on September 13, 2021
À l'occasion de la prochaine Journée internationale pour l'avortement sans risque, le 28 septembre, les organisations de la société civile ont élaboré une déclaration commune sur le droit à l'avortement qui sera présentée lors de la 48e session du Conseil des Droits Humains de l'ONU à Genève.
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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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Published on September 13, 2021
Please note that an abbreviated version of this statement with the updated number of signatories will be delivered orally on October 4, 2021 at the Human Rights Council.
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Published on September 13, 2021
Una versión abreviada de esta declaración con el número actualizado de firmantes se entregará oralmente el 4 de octubre de 2021 ante el Consejo de Derechos Humanos.
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Published on September 13, 2021
Veuillez noter qu'une version abrégée de cette déclaration avec le nombre actualisé de signataires sera présentée oralement le 4 octobre 2021 au Conseil des Droits Humains.
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Published on September 13, 2021
Please note that an abbreviated version of this statement with the updated number of signatories will be delivered orally on October 4, 2021 at the Human Rights Council.
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Published on September 10, 2021
The 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council will take place from September 13 to October 8.
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Uploaded on July 26, 2021
In response to the Special Rapporteur’s call for contributions, SRI made a submission locating the impact of COVID-19 on the right to sexual and reproductive health within a broader context of racial capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, ableism and austerity.
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Uploaded on July 16, 2021
Action Canada makes this statement also on behalf of the Sexual Rights Initiative during the 47th session of the Human Rights Council.
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Uploaded on July 16, 2021
A joint statement by CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education, the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Plan International, AWID, and SRI during the dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education on the 47th session of the Human Rights Council.
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Uploaded on July 16, 2021
Action Canada's statement on behalf of the Sexual Rights Initiative during the 47th Session of the Human Rights Council.
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Uploaded on July 16, 2021
Action Canada makes this statement on behalf of the Association HERA XXI and the Sexual Rights Initiative.
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Uploaded on July 16, 2021
The Federation for Women and Family Planning's statement on on behalf of the Sexual Rights Initiative during the 47th session of the Human Rights Council.
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Uploaded on July 16, 2021
Statement on behalf of the Federation for Women and Family Planning from Poland during the 47th regular session of the Human Rights Council.
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Uploaded on July 16, 2021
Action Canada statement on behalf of the Sexual Rights Initiative, the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, IWRAW Asia-Pacific and CREA during the 47th Session of the Human Rights Council.
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Published on July 15, 2021
The 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from June 21 to July 14, 2021.
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Published on July 15, 2021
La 47ª Sesión del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU (CDH) se llevó a cabo del 21 de junio al 14 de julio de 2021.
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Published on July 15, 2021
The 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from June 21 to July 14, 2021.
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Resource collectionAt the SRI we decided to take a closer look at what happened during 2020. The COVID-19 crisis presents devastating and costly moments of national and global reckoning. Despite calls - and in some cases commitments - to ‘build back better’ by state and non-state actors, it is clear that there isn’t agreement on what ‘better’ is. Building back better ought to mean not "back" to the business of relentless growth regardless of the planet's capacity, back to the "better" objectification of workers into resources, the commodification of every relationship, and the "creative destruction" that characterizes neoliberalism.
The effect on sexual and reproductive health and rights in the long term may well be far worse than the dire predictions of global institutions, as states turn inwards, multilateralism is sacrificed for national or ethnic benefit, and social justice struggles face an unprecedented setback. While our analysis too will continue to evolve, the trends and events in the fields of SRHR, both heartening and alarming, require immediate attention.
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All people in Canada have a human right to safe, legal, affordable, and accessible abortion care. While the federal government and many provincial governments declared abortion an essential service at the start of the pandemic, little has been done by governments to ensure that people in Canada continue to be able to access the SRH services, including abortion care, that they need. In the face of mounting anti-abortion tactics, it is critical that governments prioritize dismantling the barriers to SRH services and abortion care.
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Uploaded on July 02, 2021
In this context, also in Latin America, neoliberal, conservative and anti-gender actors, within and outside the state, were very active in attacking policies and legislation that could advance sexual rights and rights to equality, including gender equality, to create barriers in their implementation or to establish measures of state control and authoritarianism. Although it is important to note that the ferocity of such measures was not as much as in Latin America as in Eastern European countries, Egypt or Russia, it is nevertheless true that these groups found new arguments during the pandemic to add to those they already used. They took advantage of measures adopted by governments to disseminate their perspectives in different ways; from demonstrations to social networks and other virtual media, their speeches included allusions to different conspiracy theories, invocations to restrict rights and distributed false information, all combined to confuse audiences.
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Uploaded on July 02, 2021
Initially, in our quest to delve into the subject matter of wellbeing and wellness, we mistakenly used the two words interchangeably. Now, we only use the term wellbeing. This is because ‘wellbeing’ refers to the more holistic aspect of one’s life rather than just the physical health, which is what ‘wellness’ tends to encompass. It was important for us to recognise and appreciate that people’s welfare is affected by so much more than physical health, so many intangible factors like racism, sexism, patriarchy and capitalism that disproportionately affect LBQ women, activists and human rights defenders mobilising on the continent. Our hope is that these groups of people are holistically well.
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Uploaded on July 02, 2021
Soon after the World Health Organization announced COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020, organisations around the world began reporting an increase in gender-based and domestic violence, in what they called a ‘shadow pandemic’. At the same time, another phenomenon started to take shape, that of the ‘citizen-informant’, a term for people who policed other people who were not practicing social distancing. The tendencies for violence and surveillance contained in these two phenomena came together and accentuated each other in a remarkable way in Egypt in April 2020, when TikTok became popular, in what is referred to as the case of women TikTokers in this brief. With the increasing popularity of the TikTok application in Egypt, online bullying multiplied against women and girls, for videotaping their social isolation. By the end of 2020, a 15-second lip sync had become a nightmare.
The smear campaign against women TikTokers highlights a classist perception of and entitlement to lower-class and lower-middle-class women’s bodies.