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La sesión 46° del Examen Periódico Universal tuvo lugar del 29 de abril al 10 de mayo de 2024. Durante la sesión fueron examinados 14 países: Afganistán, Camboya, Chile, Chipre, Eritrea, Eslovaquia, Islas Comoras, Macedonia del Norte, Nueva Zelanda, República Dominicana, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vietnam y Yemen. En colaboración con organizaciones aliadas, la SRI presentó informes sobre Camboya, Macedonia del Norte, Chile y Uruguay.

The 46th session of the Universal Periodic was held from 29 April to 10 May 2024. 14 Countries were under review during the session: Afghanistan, Cambodia, Chie, Comoros, Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, Eritrea, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Viet Nam and Yemen. In collaboration with our partners, the SRI submitted reports for Cambodia, North Macedonia, Chile and Uruguay.

The 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from 18 June to 12 July 2024. The ongoing liquidity crisis experienced by the United Nations, which deeply affects the Council’s functioning, has once again put civil society organisations under an additional and significant burden - especially when it comes to accessing hybrid modalities and organising side events. Below, you will find information on some of the key sexual rights-related: Resolutions Panel discussions Oral statements UPR Outcomes Side Events

La sesión 56° del Consejo de Derechos Humanos (CDH 56) se desarrolló del 18 de junio al 12 de julio de 2024. La crisis de liquidez que sufren las Naciones Unidas y que afecta profundamente el financiamiento del Consejo, una vez más representó una carga adicional y significativa para la sociedad civil, sobre todo en cuanto a su acceso a modalidades híbridas (de participación) y su capacidad de organizar eventos paralelos. A continuación, encontrarán información sobre algunas cuestiones relacionadas con derechos sexuales en: Resoluciones Mesas redondas Intervenciones orales Resultados del EPU Eventos paralelos

La 56e session du Conseil des droits de l'homme des Nations unies s'est tenue du 18 juin au 12 juillet 2024. La crise budgétaire que connaissent actuellement les Nations unies et qui affecte lourdement le fonctionnement du Conseil, a une fois de plus imposé aux organisations de la société civile une charge supplémentaire et importante, en particulier lorsqu'il s’est agit d'accéder aux modalités hybrides et l’organisations des événements parallèles. Vous trouverez ci-dessous des informations sur certains des principaux événements en rapport avec les droits sexuels : Résolutions Tables rondes Déclarations orales Résultats des examens périodiques universels (EPU) Événements parallèles

We welcome the recommendations made to Malaysia on the ratification of the 1951 Refugee Convention (and its protocol) and regret the noting of the same. Malaysia currently fails to adequately recognise refugee status, and UNHCR registration provides only limited protection against arbitrary arrest, detention and refoulement. Malaysia is yet to provide clarity on how it determines the refugee status of detainees, and indeed the UNHCR has been denied access to immigration detention centres for almost five years now. This is concerning given current policies and the prevailing climate of xenophobia towards refugees and migrants.

Alentamos a México a que las políticas y leyes que adopte tengan un enfoque interseccional, ya que son numerosas las violaciones a los derechos humanos donde además del género o la orientación sexual y la identidad de género, aspectos como la clase, el origen étnico, el estatus migratorio u otros factores incrementan sustancialmente las vulnerabilidades de las personas que sufren discriminación.

We regret the noting of recommendations pertaining to providing access to information and education on sexual and reproductive health. Nigeria is failing to meet its obligations to provide such information, with private institutions left to bridge the gap in access to evidence-based, accurate information. Everyone has the right to learn about one’s body, sexuality, and sexual and reproductive health. We call on Nigeria to ensure access to comprehensive sexuality education for all, as part of its obligation to ensure that everyone enjoys the right to a quality education.

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.

Human rights economy seeks to prioritize investment in economic, social and cultural rights, as well as the right to development. However, the transformative potential of a human rights economy will remain hollow without addressing the global financial architecture as a colonial structure that exerts control over countries in the Global South through debt burdens, austerity measures, structural adjustment programs and loan conditionalities through international financial institutions.

We urge States to heed the Working Group’s recommendations related to the realization of individual and collective rights to substantive equality, including guaranteeing the right to decent work, comprehensive social protection, and repealing laws criminalizing poverty. International and regional economic, financial and monetary institutions and their member States must move away from the growth-centered and neoliberal paradigm that are root causes of inequalities.

Economic violence against women and girls, as with many other forms of gender-based violence, is rooted in patriarchal, racist, classist systems of oppression. In the last decades, structural conditions created by global capitalism and neoliberal policies, combined with those first mentioned, have added new dimensions, causes and consequences.

We support the Special Rapporteur’s recommendations to States to move away from criminal approaches to drug use and control frameworks and rather adopt an evidence-based, human rights approach. Moreover, access to medicines is a human right that must not be impeded by policies that favour corporate interests over people’s health and rights.

In collaboration with the Global Network of Sex Work Project, SRI supported a delegation of sex workers from different countries to participate in the 56th session of the Human Rights Council. This delegation also benefited from the support of the Count me In! Consortium and the Our Voices, Our Future Consortium.

Evidence collected over 25 years by Amnesty International in Norway and Ireland, Médecins du Monde in France has consistently demonstrated that criminalisation as recommended by the SR VAW, has been responsible for increasing the economic vulnerability, worsening the quality of life of sex workers everywhere this system is implemented.

As a mother, I am offended by the report’s assertion that sex workers are bad mothers and our children are a result of violence who will end up getting stolen, trafficked, raped and killed. I have chosen sex work to be my profession, but this is not my whole reality. Before I am a sex worker, I am many things. My rights should not be denied because of my job.

As a sex worker and sex worker advocate, I and my community find this report problematic and harmful. As a feminist, I object to the report because it denies our agency and autonomy.

The greatest violence we sex workers suffer is based on stigma, discrimination, and police persecution. We need sex work to be recognized as what it is: a job.

a mayor violencia que sufrimos las personas trabajadoras sexuales está basada en el estigma, la discriminación y la persecución policial. Necesitamos que se reconozca el trabajo sexual como lo que es: un trabajo.

The first form of violence is that people refuse to hear our voices and impose moral judgments against us. Our voices as sex workers must be heard. To protect ourselves from violence, we need labor law, the recognition of sex work as work, and respect for our choices as sex workers.

La première des violences est qu’on refuse d’entendre nos voix et qu’on impose des jugements moraux contre nous. Nos voix en tant que travailleuses du sexe doivent être entendues. Pour nous protéger de la violence, nous avons besoin du droit du travail, de la reconnaissance du travail sexuel comme un travail, et du respect de nos choix en tant que travailleuses du sexe.