By Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights | The Sexual Rights Initiative
Sexual and reproductive health and rights are human rights. Working in collabortion with organizations around the globe to ensure states fulfill their human rights obligations makes a difference in 1000's of lives. At the 33rd session of the United Nations the Sexual Rights Initiative was at the UN Human Rights Council which 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.
The session recap features videos of resolutions, linkages to women's rights within different resolutions, summaries of the panels. Each session the SRI partners work together to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights in states around the globe. A webinar, described below and expanded upon further in the report, was delivered to leaders created intersections between human rights and bodily autonomy. Bodily autonomy leads to informed and empowered choice, it is an important issue intersecting with: consent, mental health, healthcare, maternal and child rights, and more.
Ensuring sexual and reproductive health and rights are integrated within the UN HRC and clear decisive language is used to extend and defend these rights to all is important work. Bringing the resolutions and recommendations back to each state to hold governments accountable for the fundamental rights to sexual and reproductive health and rights is an important element of the work of the SRI.
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SRI Side Events
The SRI hosted a specialized training in Geneva wihere the panel articulated the benefits of advancing a holistic and intersectional understanding of bodily autonomy, explored the interlinkages between sexual rights issues affecting bodily autonomy, and encouraged the Human Rights Council to continue to produce contextualized analyses of sexuality and gender in relation to bodily autonomy. Bodily Autonomy & Sexual Rights
The panel articulated the benefits of advancing a holistic and intersectional understanding of bodily autonomy, explored the interlinkages between sexual rights issues affecting bodily autonomy, and encouraged the Human Rights Council to continue to produce contextualized analyses of sexuality and gender in relation to bodily autonomy.
With each session of the HRC we have an opportunites to further protect& guarantee the rights of women and girls, LGBTQI+, marginalized people, and so many more. See our full report here.
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