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Uploaded on July 02, 2021
The revolution is feminist in its postulates as well and the key demand is the dismissal of the government. However the Women’s Strike, which organised the protests, formulated five key areas for change; these are: full spectrum of access to SRHR, a secular state, implementation of the Istanbul Convention, improvement of the material conditions of women and making Poland an inclusive and non-discriminating country.
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Uploaded on July 02, 2021
At SRI, we believe that it would be foolish to treat COVID-19 as a temporary hiccup in a generally progressivist tale of the inevitable triumph of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as universally upheld human rights. Experience teaches us to always prepare to have SRHR gains be stalled, coopted, or deprioritized in a crisis, any crisis. The SRHR priority going forward must, therefore, be a refusal to accept “the new normal” – the normal of denial, deprivation, and discrimination – and recognize that the “war” that has been declared on the virus masks another war, one on fundamental and interconnected human rights. The further disempowerment of the impoverished, the unhoused, of gender and sexuality minorities, women in rural areas seeking abortion, adolescents in need of comprehensive sexuality education, sex workers, and women forced into marriage and childbearing – particularly in low-income countries and in low-income communities in wealthy countries – will be written off as the collateral damage of this war. Accepting the war analogy and the discourse of securitization that accompanies it means acceding to the logic of the necessary sacrifice of “foot soldiers” (frontline workers, in this case) and of the weak and most vulnerable among us, and provides a convenient distraction from the impact of the prioritization of military spending and of neoliberal policies of austerity and privatization on health systems and social security nets worldwide that have led us to this crisis. Research from different parts of the world clearly shows that there needs to be a joint, speedy, and concerted effort to catch the backsliding on women's rights, including SRHR, and we can expect that economic recession will be used to justify what the nationalist warcry might fail to.
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Published on July 02, 2021
As the events related to the pandemic unfolded over 2020, the partners of the Sexual Rights Initiative sought to capture some of the key developments in sexual and reproductive rights – from restrictive measures and moral policing to the force of protests rocking many parts of the world.
Halfway through 2021, as we struggle with the increasing polarization of the world along established colonial and class lines, we would like to gather to both share information and perspectives and to collectively develop strategies for continuing to fight for sexual and reproductive rights in different regional and national contexts as well as globally.
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Published on July 02, 2021
A medida que se desarrollaban los acontecimientos relacionados a la pandemia a lo largo de 2020, las organizaciones socias de la Iniciativa por los Derechos Sexuales capturaron algunos de los principales avances en materia de derechos sexuales y reproductivos, desde las medidas restrictivas y la vigilancia moral hasta la fuerza de las protestas que sacuden muchas partes del mundo.
Halfway through 2021, as we struggle with the increasing polarization of the world along established colonial and class lines, we would like to gather to both share information and perspectives and to collectively develop strategies for continuing to fight for sexual and reproductive rights in different regional and national contexts as well as globally.
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Published on July 02, 2021
Au fur et à mesure que les événements liés à la pandémie se déroulaient au cours de l'année 2020, les partenaires de l'Initiative pour les droits sexuels ont cherché à saisir certains des développements clés en matière de droits sexuels et reproductifs - des mesures restrictives et de la police morale à la force des protestations qui secouent de nombreuses régions du monde.
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Published on June 11, 2021
The 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council will take place from June 21 to July 15.
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Published on June 11, 2021
El 47° período de sesiones del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU (CDH) se llevará a cabo del 21 de junio al 15 de julio de 2021.
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Published on June 11, 2021
La 47e session du Conseil des droits humains de l'ONU se tiendra du 21 juin au 15 juillet.
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Uploaded on June 10, 2021
Unaddressed, historical, structural and systemic discrimination and violence in the world create situations of crisis. Systems of patriarchy, racism and xenophobia and/or neoliberal capitalism created and continue to further and entrench this discrimination and violence increasing situations of crisis across the world. The impacts of any crisis on women and girls has to be addressed considering neoliberal policies that have defunded or privatized public health systems, eroded labour rights and other networks of protection, and promoted precarious forms of labour.[1] At this moment in time, the multiple and intersecting crises the world has been experiencing for centuries have never been so visible. The economic crisis caused by COVID-19 has exposed the brokenness and inequality of global capitalism. These structural oppressions manifest in different crisis situations while exacerbating the existing forms of discrimination they cause.
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Published on June 04, 2021
The 38th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was held in Geneva, from May 3-14, 2021.
Fourteen countries were reviewed during UPR38: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Palau, Paraguay, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia.
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Published on June 04, 2021
The 37th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was held in Geneva, from January 18-29, 2021.
Fourteen countries were reviewed during UPR37: Micronesia, Mauritania, Lebanon, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Australia, Nepal, Oman, Austria, Myanmar, Rwanda, Georgia, Nauru, and Sao Tome and Principe.
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Uploaded on June 01, 2021
In response to the Special Rapporteur’s call for inputs on housing discrimination and spatial segregation, SRI made a submission addressing the impact of discrimination based on gender and sexuality norms.
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Published on May 27, 2021We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to resist Israeli systems of settler colonialism and apartheid, and the ongoing oppression, dispossession, displacement, ethnic cleansing, and human rights violations they have faced for decades.
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Uploaded on May 21, 2021
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Uploaded on May 18, 2021
The SRI collaborated on submissions for Eswatini, Hungary, Samoa, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, and Papua New Guinea for the 39th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) session.
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Uploaded on April 28, 2021
Joint statement by IWRAW Asia Pacific, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the Sexual Rights Initiative and endorsed by a total of 71 organizations delivered during the General Debate on Item 3 on the human rights obligation to ensure equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccine, particularly to highlight civil society perspectives from the Global South on this topic.
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Uploaded on April 28, 2021
Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland
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Uploaded on April 28, 2021
Interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on Foreign Debt
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Uploaded on April 28, 2021
Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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Uploaded on April 28, 2021
CAL & SRI Statement - Meeting on Poverty
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Uploaded on April 28, 2021
CAL & SRI Statement - Racism, People of African Descent at the 46th HRC
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Uploaded on April 28, 2021
Joint civil society letter on civil society organizations’ (CSOs) participation at the 46th Human Rights Council
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Uploaded on April 27, 2021
HRC 46 - RHRN & SRI - UPR Joint Statement
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Uploaded on April 02, 2021
As organizations based in the Global North, we are ashamed of our governments’ hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Uploaded on April 02, 2021
As organizations based in the Global North, we are ashamed of our governments’ hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines.