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.
In response to the Special Rapporteur’s call for input about unilateral coercive measures and the right to health, SRI made a submission examining unilateral sanctions as forms of economic and racial injustice and imperial domination, and a violation of the right to development.
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.
Human Rights Council – 28th session – March 2015
Item 6: Consideration of the UPR Outcome of Madagascar
Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development
Country: Argentina
Collaborators: SRI, Akahata
Key Words: Maternal Mortality; Abortion; Contraception; Gender-Based Violence; Sexuality Education
Country: Guatemala
Collaborators: SRI, Colectiva Mujeres en Resistencia
Key Words: Gender-Based Violence; Violence Against Lesbian Women
Country: Pakistan
Country: Afghanistan
Collaborators: SRI, Afghan Family Guidance Association & International Planned Parenthood Federation (South Asia Regional Office)
Key Words: HIV/AIDS; People who inject drugs; Discrimination; Stigma; Health Systems Strengthening; Access to Services; Education; Availability of Services; Accessibility of Services.
Country: Cambodia
Country: Bolivia
Collaborators: SRI, Ipas
Key Words: Sexual and reproductive rights, maternal mortality, criminalization of abortion
Country: Bolivia
Collaborators: SRI, Colectivo LGBT de Bolivia
Key Words: Sexual orientation, gender equality, discrimination, violence, sexuality education, public policy, Bolivian legislation, hate crimes
Country: Bosnia Herzegovina
Country: Brazil
Collaborators: SRI, Ipas
Key Words: Legal abortions, contraception, sexuality education and information on sexual and reproductive health and rights, zika
Country: Ecuador
Collaborators: SRI, Taller Comunicación Mujer
Country: Lithuania
Colaborators: SRI, Family Planning, Sexual Health Association of Lithuania
Key words: access to contraception; access to abortion; comprehensive sexuality education; youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services; sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
Country: Lithuania
Colaborators: SRI, National LGBT* Rights Organization LGL Sexual, ILGA-Europe
ANNUAL DISCUSSION ON INTEGRATION OF A GENDER PERSPECTIVE
27th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development
15th September 2014
Item 3
27th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development
15th September 2014
Human Rights Council – 25th session – March 2014
Consideration of Senegal’s UPR Outcome – Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development
Human Rights Council – 25th session – March 2014
Consideration of Malaysia’s UPR Outcome – Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development
UPR Submissions - 3rd session
Human Rights Council 31st session
Item 6 Universal Periodic Review – Nepal <
Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development
Human Rights Council – 34th session
Panel Discussion on Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity & Human Rights
March 9, 2017
Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development
Human Rights Council – 34th session
Panel Discussion on Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity & Human Rights March 9, 2017
Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development
Thank you Mr President.
This statement is delivered on behalf of the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Sexual Rights Initiative, and the International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights. We welcome the follow up report by the OHCHR on the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the impleme
A comprehensive resolution on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings (A/HRC/RES/39/13), led by New Zealand, Colombia, Burkina Faso and Estonia, was adopted by consensus on Thursday September 27, 2018. This initiative is part of a long-term push by States, civil society organizations (CSOs) and U.N. agencies to address the human rights violations contributing to preventable maternal mortality and morbidity.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, the Sexual Rights Initiative, the Global Justice Center, Arrow, Rutgers, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education, Plan International, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, the Federation for Women and Family Planning, Akahatá and the White Ribbon Alliance applaud the significant progress on the rights of women and girls and on sexual and reproductive health and rights at the 39th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC).
With the adoption of its landmark resolution 11/8, entitled “Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity, and Human Rights”, the Human Rights Council has affirmed that the issue of maternal mortality and morbidity is a part of the global human rights agenda and has also placed the issue squarely within the Council’s own agenda. The resolution represents the first international intergovernmental recognition that maternal mortality and morbidity is a human rights issue.
The scale of maternal mortality and morbidity today is staggering. This book focuses on a vital part of a human rights response to maternal mortality, viz. accountability. Accountability encompasses monitoring, review and redress at the local, national and international levels. The book's context includes the UN Human Rights Council maternal mortality and morbidity resolutions, as well as Millennium Development Goal 5.
Held during the 30th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The panel emphasized the importance of addressing unsafe abortion in order to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, while identifying the human rights dimensions of unsafe abortion, and elaborating on State obligations with respect to addressing unsafe abortion.
Amanda Hodgeson, from our partner the Coalition of African Lesbians, tells us about the Human Rights Council's adoption of the resolution on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings, and its rejection of Egypt's proposed amendment seeking to remove "comprehensive sexuality education" from the text.
Meghan Doherty (Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights/SRI) tells us why preventable maternal mortality and morbidity is undeniably a human rights issue, and how it has been addressed over the years at the Human Rights Council and the UN.
Pooja Badarinath (Sexual Rights Initiative) tells us about Human Rights Council Resolution 39/10 on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings, and the reasons why governments still find this issue "contentious."
The 39th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place September 10-28, 2018.
The 39th session of the UN Human Rights Council will take place from September 10-28, 2018. Find below information about anticipated sexual rights-related resolutions, panels and reports, UPR outcomes, and parallel events taking place during the 39th session.
Expected Resolutions Relevant to Sexual Rights
In response to the Special Rapporteur’s call for input on nationalist populism, the submission makes the links between the resurgence of white supremacist, racist and xenophobic discourse in mainstream, right-wing and populist movements, related discriminatory laws and policies, and States’ complicity in furthering violence. It looks at the impact of racial discrimination in the area of sexuality and gender, and advocates for an intersectional approach to these issues.
The 30th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is taking place now until 18 May, 2018 at the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva. Fourteen countries will be reviewed during the session: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Canada, Cabo Verde, CameroonColombia, Cuba, Djibouti, Germany, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu and Uzbekistan.
The 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from the 27th of February to the 24th of March 2017. Here is an overview of resolutions, panel, oral statements and side events related to sexual rights that took place during the session.
SRI Oral statements made to date during the 34th session of the Human Rights Council. This session is ongoing and will conclude on 24 July 2017.
SRI Statement on Lithuania, UPR Report Consideration – 00:31:18
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SRI Statement on Togo, UPR Report Consideration – 00:43:24
The 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council will take place from 27 February to 24 March 2017. Find below information about anticipated sexual rights-related resolutions, panels and reports, UPR outcomes and parallel events taking place during the 34th session.
The 33rd session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from the 12th to the 30th of September 2016. Here is an overview of resolutions, panel, oral statements and side events related to sexual rights that took place during the session.
Statement Co-Produced by the Sexual Rights Initiative & Centre for Reproductive Rights
Human Rights Council adopts resolution on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in the face of attacks on women’s sexual and reproductive rights
Today, the Council adopted by consensus its biannual resolution on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity. The resolution represents an advancement to women’s human rights on several counts.
The resolution:
HRC33 Statement: Stop Using Women’s Bodies as the Battlefield!
Thank you Mr President.
This statement is delivered on behalf of the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Sexual Rights Initiative, and the International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights.
We welcome the follow up report by the OHCHR on the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the implementations of policies and programmes to reduce preventable maternal mortality and morbidity.
The 33rd session of the UN Human Rights Council will take place from the 12th the 30th of September 2016. Find below information about anticipated sexual rights-related resolutions, panels and reports, UPR outcomes and parallel events taking place during the 33rd session.
Click here to access the full programme of work for HRC33
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Expected Resolutions Relevant to Sexual Rights
Maternal Mortality, Morbidity & Human Rights
16 SEPTEMBER, Palais des Nations
12:00-13:30, Room XXI
During the 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council, the SRI collaborated with national-level organizations and advocates to deliver oral statements regarding outcomes from the Universal Periodic Review ‘s (UPR) of five countries:
On September 29th, during the 30th session of the Human Rights Council, we co-hosted a side event to discuss the importance of addressing unsafe abortion in order to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity.
Panel Highlights
The panel opened with a video from Ipas on the lack of access to safe and legal abortion in Rwanda.
The Sexual Rights Initiative is hosting a panel on Unsafe Abortion and Maternal Mortality and Morbidity during the 30th session of the Human Rights Council from 12:00PM to 1:00PM on 29 September 2015.
The SRI joined more than 50 NGOs in calling upon the U.N. Human Rights Committee to elaborate on the measures States must take to realize women’s right to life, including by guaranteeing access to safe and legal abortion, and other sexual and reproductive health services. The joint statement is below.
Distinguished Committee Members:
Side-event on maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights taking place during the 27th session of the Human Rights Council. The event will be held on 10 September 2014 in Room XXVII and includes French interpretation.
The 27th session of the UN Human Rights Council will take place from 8-26 September 2014. Here you will find information regarding some sexual rights-related resolutions, discussions, UPR outcomes and parallel events taking place during the session.
Click here to access the full programme of work for the 27th session
Expected Sexual Rights-related Resolutions
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights recently launched a new publication entitled “Reclaiming and Redefining Rights – ICPD+20: Status of sexual and reproductive rights in Middle East and North Africa.” The publication progress achieved and challenges remaining in the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), since 1994 in the MENA region. The report is contextualized within recent and ongoing events including the Arab Spring, Governmental positions during recent global conferences, among other events.
The 24th Session of the Human Rights Council took place from September 9th until the 27th 2013. Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) partners participated in the session to ensure that sexual rights issues are included and advanced. SRI partners collectively advocated for the increased understanding and integration of issues related to sexual and reproductive rights, gender equality and human rights in resolutions, and through parallel events and oral statements.
HRC23 Resolutions
Summary of SRI co-organized event on Maternal Mortality and Morbidity during the 24th session of the HRC
Parallel event entitled “Maternal Mortality: Implementation and Accountability: Guidance on Using a Human Rights Approach in the Context of the Post 2015 Agenda” taking place alongside the 24th session of the UN Human Rights Council.
Maternal Mortality: Implementation and Accountability:
Guidance on Using a Human Rights Approach in the Context of the Post 2015 Agenda
11 September 2013, 13h00-15h00
Palais de Nation, Geneva, Room XXIV
Lunch will be served
(Une interprétation en français sera disponible)
