By Tara Henderson | Director of Fundraising and Operations
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We CONTINUE proudly pushing forward the agenda at the United Nations to uphold and defend human rights relating to sexuality, gender, and reproduction. Also known as sexual rights. In the most recent session at the Human Rights Council we saw many resolutions relating to sexual health and rights - and we saw some major progress!
A reminder about what we are working on:The Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) is a coalition of organizations from all regions of the world with an office in Geneva that has been advocating for the advancement of human rights in relation to gender and sexuality at the UN Human Rights Council since 2006. The SRI works in partnership with local, national and regional organizations and networks of sexual and reproductive health and rights activists to advocate for the inclusion of sexual rights dimensions in: Human Rights Council resolutions, debates, panels and side-events, Special Procedures, Studies and reports prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Treaty monitoring bodies, Universal Periodic Review.
The SRI is committed to the right of every person to sexual and reproductive health and well-being, bodily integrity, as well as the right to have control over and to make free and informed decisions on all matters related to sexuality, reproduction and gender, free from violence and discrimination.
The SRI regularly engages on a wide variety of sexual rights issues, particularly during the Universal Periodic Review, including:
In June we saw major gains on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the 35th session of the Human Rights Council.
The 35th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from the 6th to the 23rd of June 2017. The HRC35 Recap provides information on some of the key sexual rights related resolutions and oral statements. All of which the Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) was engaged with during the session. To read about specific resolutions and the joint statement about the “Major Gains at the 35th Human Rights Council Session”, please read this archive.
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