HRC 54 SRI Statement on the ID on OHCHR report on panel discussion on the negative impact of the legacies of colonialism

Statement
Until all neocolonial and occupying states and forces are withdrawn, until transnational corporations and foreign military bases and operations are expelled, until extractivist industries are stopped, until debt is cancelled and the international economic order reframed to put people before profit, people living under occupation and those who bear the brunt of neocolonialism as well as their allies will continue to fight to be free.
Colonialism
Economic justice
Right to development
Racial discrimination

Submission to OHCHR Promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights within the context of addressing inequalities in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic

This submission argues that one of the essential elements to “profoundly transform economies to make them greener, fairer and more inclusive” is to review the current macroeconomic system, which itself is a continuation of the historical and ongoing consequence of colonialism: its impact on people and to embark on a radical global system change - one which places people and the planet before profits.

Submissions
Economic justice
Covid-19
Poverty and economic inequality
Right to health

SRI Submission to OHCHR: Input on the technical guidance on the elimination of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity

This submission is made by the Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) in response to OHCHR's call for input to update the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the elimination of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity.
Submissions
Maternal mortality and morbidity
Right to health

Statement to the OHCHR workshop on on promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights within the context of COVID-19: Session 4

Statement

Around the world, health systems and health financing have been eroded, undermined and weakened by decades of neoliberalism, austerity, privatisation and structural adjustment programs and an emphasis on minimising State intervention and relying on a discourse of “personal responsibility.

Covid-19
Economic justice
Right to health
Austerity
Gender-based violence

Statement to the OHCHR workshop on on promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights within the context of COVID-19: Session 2

Statement

The rising inequalities, made even starker due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, are a symptom of the failed economic system that prioritises profit over people and impoverishes people. It is very important to look at the impact of the erosion of public systems through privatisation and financialisation and resulting human rights violations and abuses. In particular, to delve deeper into why public health systems were woefully inadequate to deal with the Pandemic.

Colonialism
Economic justice
Right to health
Covid-19

Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on its Draft General Comment on the right to work

The submission highlights the importance of an intersectional analysis that recognizes the ableist, sexist and patriarchal systems,structures and institutions that define productivity and dependency. Changes to these systems, structures and institutions will contribute to the realization of bodily autonomy, where persons with disabilities, and especially women with disabilities,have the ability to make and exercise choices not limited by oppression,discrimination, stigma, coercion, violence, lack of opportunities or possible consequences.

Submissions
Disability

Submission to the CRPD Committee for its concept note for a General Comment on Article 27: Right to Work

This submission first suggests that the Committee should develop an intersectional analysis that recognizes the ableist, sexist and patriarchal systems, structures and institutions that define productivity and dependency. Secondly, it highlights how the full enjoyment of sexual and reproductive rights, broadly understood, redistributes resources, legitimacy, and power, therefore conditioning access to and keeping work. In reciprocity, access to work mediates the exercise of sexual and reproductive rights. The submission concludes by suggesting recommendations for structural changes to accessing work, health, education, and social protection systems.

Submissions
Disability
Sexual and reproductive health and rights

Submission to the OHCHR on the elimination of discrimination against women and girls in sports

This submission is made by the Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI). SRI is a coalition of national and regional organizations based in Canada, Poland, India, Argentina and South Africa, that work together to advance human rights related to sexuality, gender and bodily autonomy at the United Nations.

Submissions
Gender-based discrimination
Racial discrimination
Colonialism
Sexual rights
Sexual orientation and gender identity