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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 19/03/2026

📕 New publication! We've just published a summary of a submission, sent to the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. You'll find this summary here: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/resources/in...

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NEW PUBLICATION
Intersectionality
from a racial justice
perspective

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At the HRC, the term “intersectionality” is rarely used verbatim in resolutions. A prevalence of vague, general references to “multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination” indicates a tendency to lump different forms and manifestations of discrimination together, without necessarily examining the root causes.

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Over the years, HRC negotiations have shown a pattern: many Global North states use intersectionality-adjacent language for virtue-signalling, while simultaneously resisting efforts to meaningfully address systemic racism, classism, colonialism, and economic inequalities between countries. It is often used and interpreted in negotiations as a proxy for sexual orientation and gender identity.

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The use of intersectionality-related language has also increased in recent years in Universal Periodic Review recommendations issued by recommending States to States under review. Within those, however, a minority of recommendations refer to racial discrimination, to race or ethnicity as discrimination grounds, or to rights-holders subjected to it.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 13/02/2026

📢 Important Update: We are closing our Geneva office As a coalition of partners from across regions and movements who have worked together for more than twenty years to advance sexual rights within the UN human rights system, we want to share this update transparently and collectively.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 29/01/2026

📢 Calling all feminists! We've compiled a few interesting upcoming opportunities to engage with UN human rights thematic reports and country visits. 🧵 Find all the info here: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2026-ja...

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TEXT: January - April 2026
Opportunities for feminist engagement in UN human rights thematic reports and country visits

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 27/01/2026

¿Te perdiste lo que pasó en el EPU 50? Esta sesión tuvo lugar del 3 al 14 de noviembre de 2025. En esta sesión fueron examinados 14 países: Bielorrusia, Malawi, Panamá, Andorra, Honduras, Liberia, Mongolia, Maldivas, Bulgaria, Islas Marshall, Jamaica, Croacia y Libia.

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texto: Durante esta sesión, estaba programado el examen de los Estados Unidos pero este país se retiró del Consejo de Derechos Humanos y de todos sus mecanismos, incluido el examen. Esta negativa a participar constituye un cuestionamiento directo al principio de universalidad, que subyace al Examen Periódico Universal.

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texto: En la sesión 50° continuaron vigentes temas planteados durante las sesiones 49° y 48°: hubo recomendaciones sobre los derechos económicos y sociales de las mujeres, el abordaje de la violencia de género en todas sus manifestaciones, los impactos de género en el cambio climático, y la degradación del ambiente debido, entre otras causas, al impacto persistente de las pruebas nucleares.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 20/01/2026

Missed what happened at UPR 50? The 50th session of the Universal Periodic Review was held from 3 to 14 November 2025. 13 countries were reviewed during the session: Belarus, Malawi, Panama, Andorra, Honduras, Liberia, Mongolia, Maldives, Bulgaria, the Marshall Islands, Jamaica, Croatia and Libya.

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TEXT: UPR 50 in review

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TEXT: The United States of America was meant to be reviewed during this session, but opted out as an extension of its withdrawal from the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms. This non-participation is a direct challenge to the principle of universality, which underpins the Universal Periodic Review.

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TEXT: The 50th session saw the continuation of themes raised during the 49th and 48th sessions. This session included recommendations focused on women’s economic and social rights, addressing gender based violence in all its manifestations, the gendered impacts of climate change, and the degradation of the environment due to inter alia the lingering impacts of nuclear testing.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 17/10/2025

Trajche Janushev from SWAN reflected on rising autoritarianism in its impact on the work of the UN Human Rights Council during our latest side-event at #HRC60 "Criminalisation and shrinking civic spaces are realities of everyday life.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 16/10/2025

At our latest #HRC60 side-event, María Luisa Peralta from Akãhatã spoke about the different dimensions of care, highlighting its need to be examined by the Council and its link to the right to health and economic, social and cultural rights.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 15/10/2025

At our latest #HRC60 side-event, Meghan Doherty from @actioncanadashr.bsky.social discussed the importance of the Universal Periodic Review in advancing abortion rights.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 14/10/2025

Did you miss it? Find out all about #HRC60 in our round-up! www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2025-oc...

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TEXT: HRC60 in review

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TEXT: Sexual rights are shaped and constrained by interconnected global crises, unchecked extractivism, climate degradation, violent populism and toxic nationalism, widening inequalities within and between states and entrenched patriarchal, racist, classist, and ableist systems of oppression. Realising sexual rights, therefore, requires advancing the self-determination and collective liberation of all peoples.

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TEXT: Calls for accountability were also reflected in the International Safe Abortion Day joint statement, endorsed by over 230 organisations and individuals, which linked reproductive justice to broader struggles against impunity in Gaza, Sudan, and the DRC. While the Council adopted by consensus the resolution on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, this progress stands in contrast with the broader failure of the international system to respond to intersecting crises and uphold the universality and indivisibility of human rights.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 14/10/2025

Lobna Darwish from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights reflected on gaps and opportunities for sexual rights advocacy at the Human Rights Council during our latest side event at #HRC60:

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 13/10/2025

At our latest #HRC60 side event, Lobna Darwish from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights highlighted the material determinants to sexual and reproductive health and rights, linking economic justice to the realisation of rights and the work of the UN Human Rights Council.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 13/10/2025

At our latest #HRC60 side event: Sexual Rights at the UN HRC: Past, Present and Future, SRI's partners explored how sexual rights have evolved within the Human Rights Council,

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 03/10/2025

🚨 On 2 October 2025, several members of the @globalsumudflotilla were kidnapped by Israel following an illegal interception of the flotilla boats in international waters.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 02/10/2025

🚨On 2 October 2025, several members of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) were kidnapped by Israel following an illegal interception of the flotilla boats in international waters.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 02/10/2025

At #HRC60 Carrie Shelver, coordinator of the SRI Geneva office, presented via video a statement recorded earlier this week. Carrie is currently with the Waves of Freedom delegation of the Global Sumud Flotilla. As of this morning, her vessel, the Wahoo, has been assumed to have been intercepted.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 30/09/2025

We just delivered today this year's Joint Civil Society Statement on Abortion during the General Debate on Item 8 at #HRC60.This year's statement has been signed by more than 240 organisations and 240 individuals. #AbortionisHealthCare #28Sept

On the background, a multicolour geometric pattern. FRONT TEXT: To commemorate the International Safe Abortion Day, we recall reproductive justice principles: to analyse power systems, address intersectional discrimination and centre the most marginalised.

On the background, a multicolour geometric pattern. FRONT TEXT: We continue to see some Western States obfuscate their complicity and violations, instrumentalising their so-called championing of gender equality and SRHR to avoid being held accountable to their double standards and complicity in genocide.

On the background, a multicolour geometric pattern. FRONT TEXT: Human rights cannot be universal without an end to the colonial apartheid regime and accountability for the ongoing colonialism and imperialism. We reiterate the call by feminists to end genocide in Gaza and to end impunity for gender based violence. States must act NOW.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 29/09/2025

Yesterday, Sept. 28, we marked International Safe Abortion Day. Last week at #HRC60, our partner from Women's Resource Center presented a statement in response to the adoption of Armenia🇦🇲 UPR adoption, highlighting demands to expand access to reproductive services, including abortion:

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 29/09/2025

⚪🟠Join us for International Safe Abortion Day🟠⚪ ⏰ Deadline to sign-on: TOMORROW: 12.00 PM CEST End the reproductive genocide in Gaza! → Sign the #HRC60 joint civil society statement on #abortion : abortionstatement.org #28Sept #SafeAbortionSavesLives

On the background, a multicolour geometric pattern. FRONT TEXT: End the reproductive genocide in Gaza. Sign the HRC60 joint civil society statement on abortion www.abortionstatement.org

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 25/09/2025

⚪🟠Joignez-vous à nous pour la Journée internationale pour le droit à l'avortement🟠⚪. Il n'y a pas de justice reproductive dans l'apartheid. → Signez notre déclaration au #CDH60 : abortionstatement.org/fr #HRC60 #28Sept #AbortionisHealthCare

En arrière-plan, un motif géométrique multicolore. TEXTE : Il n'y a pas de justice reproductive dans l'apartheid. Signez la déclaration commune de la société civile sur l'avortement au CDH 60. https://abortionstatement.org/fr

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 22/09/2025

Aborto seguro en todos lados. Justicia por Gaza, justicia por Sudán, justicia por Congo. → Firma nuestra declaración conjunta para el #CDH60: abortionstatement.org/es #SeptiembreVerde #28Sept

En el fondo, un diseño geométrico multicolor. TEXTO: Aborto seguro en todos lados. Justicia por Gaza, justicia por Sudán, justicia por Congo. Firma la Declaración Conjunta de la Sociedad Civil por el aborto para el CDH60. https://abortionstatement.org/es

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 22/09/2025

There is no reproductive justice in apartheid.→ Sign the #HRC60 joint civil society statement on #abortion : abortionstatement.org #28Sept #AbortionisHealthCare

On the background, a multicolour geometric pattern. There is no reproductive justice in apartheid. Sign the HRC60 joint civil society statement on abortion www.abortionstatement.org

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 19/09/2025

Earlier this week at #HRC60 we presented a statement in collaboration with the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies to the Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions. @actioncanadashr.bsky.social

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 19/09/2025

Mettez fin au génocide reproductif à Gaza.→ Signez notre déclaration au #CDH60 : abortionstatement.org/fr #28Sept #SafeAbortionSavesLives

En arrière-plan, un motif géométrique multicolore. TEXTE : Mettez fin au génocide reproductif à Gaza. Signez la déclaration commune de la société civile sur l'avortement au CDH 60. https://abortionstatement.org/fr

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 18/09/2025

Safe abortion everywhere. Justice for Gaza, Justice for Sudan, Justice for the Congo. → Sign the #HRC60 joint civil society statement on #abortion . abortionstatement.org #AbortionisHealthCare #28Sept

On the background, a multicolour geometric pattern. FRONT TEXT: Safe abortion everywhere. Justice for Gaza, Justice for Sudan, Justice for the Congo. Sign the HRC60 joint civil society statement on abortion www.abortionstatement.org

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 17/09/2025

📆 Today! If you are in Geneva, come join us for this exciting side event at #HRC60! Room VIII, Palais des Nations 14h00 to 15h00 Not in Geneva? You can listen live here: listen-live.unog.ch/en/meetings/...

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 16/09/2025

Last week, at #HRC60, we presented a statement to the Interactive dialogue with the Expert Mechanism on the right to development in collaboration with AWID, Feminist Diplomacy Lab, ILGA World and the Women’s Major Group, commenting on their most recent annual report.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 12/09/2025

Hoy, nuestro socio Akãhatã ha presentado una declaración en el #CDH60 en el diálogo interactivo con el relator especial sobre el derecho al desarrollo, en respuesta a su informe sobre su visita a Honduras. Lea y escuche la declaración completa aquí: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/es/news/2025...

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TEXTO: Lamentamos que el informe omita temas clave como la falta de reconocimiento legal de las familias LGBTIQ+ y la consecuente vulneración de su derecho al cuidado, recientemente reconocido como derecho autónomo por la Corte Interamericana.

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TEXTO: Nos preocupa la falta de un análisis más amplio sobre la ausencia de educación sexual integral, el bloqueo ideológico a los derechos sexuales y reproductivos impulsado por sectores conservadores y el alarmante incremento de embarazos forzados en niñas y adolescentes.

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Frontline AIDS @frontlineaids.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Are you attending #HRC60❓ Join us in Geneva or virtually for this side event spotlighting the critical role of #humanrights in a sustainable #HIV response. ⏰ Mon 15 Sept @ 1700 CET 📍 Building A, Rm VIII Palais de Nations, Geneva 📺 Livestream: bit.ly/fla-hrc60 Don't miss it!

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 10/09/2025

Are you in Geneva for #HRC60? ⏰ Save the date! Next week we will be hosting a side-event: Sexual Rights at the UN HRC: Past, Present, and Future 📆 17 September 2025 🕰️ 14:00-15:00 CET 📍 Palais des Nations, Room VIII More info about this event here: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2025-se...

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Sexual Rights at the UN HRC: Past, Present, and Future
Side event at HRC 60

17 September 2025
14:00 - 15:00 CET
Palais des Nations
Room VIII

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 05/09/2025

The 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council starts next week! Want to know what to expect? Read our round-up of this session here: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2025-se... The upcoming 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council takes place amid a deepening UN liquidity crisis.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 07/08/2025

Want to know what happened during the 49th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review? Read our highlights of the sexual rights-related recommendations and states' responses in our round-up here: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2025-au...

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 28/07/2025

📢 Calling all feminists! Several key Special Procedures mandates are currently open for applications: ⏰ Deadline 28 August Find all relevant information here: www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies...

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 25/07/2025

In this video, Meghan Doherty from our partner @actioncanadashr.bsky.social explains to us the importance of this year's resolution on eliminating VAWG, the negotiations around the language of gender, and the potential application in a Canadian context and its links to the right to housing.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 24/07/2025

Did you miss it? Here’s what happened at HRC 59! At this session, the Council adopted by consensus a resolution on women’s economic empowerment. Listen to this video to learn more about the resolution. Find our full round-up of this session here: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2025-ju...

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 14/07/2025

Did you miss it? Here’s what happened at #HRC59! We've prepared our highlights of this session on resolutions, panels, statements, UPR outcomes and side-events. Read our full round-up of this session here: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2025-ju...

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TEXT: HRC59 in review

TEXT: In this context of multilateral crisis, it may be tempting to focus sexual rights commentary on the growing attempts to restrict human rights understandings so that they serve only a “respectable” few.

TEXT: Such attempts have included efforts to constrain the analysis of human rights and violence to strictly biological understandings of ‘sex’, at the expense of the rights of trans people and of efforts to address the root causes of gender-based violence.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 11/07/2025

La semana pasada en #HRC59 hicimos una declaración para la adopción del EPU de Bolivia en colaboración con ONG IGUAL, la Red de Litigantes LGBT+ de las Américas, Hombres Trans Diversos de Bolivia y Akahata. Mateo Andrés Rodrigo Solares de IGUAL Bolivia declaró ante el Consejo:

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 10/07/2025

Last week at #HRC59 we made a statement to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 🇧🇦 UPR adoption in collaboration with the Sarajevo Open Centre. Read and listen to the full statement here: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2025-ju...

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 09/07/2025

Last week at #HRC59 we made a statement to Angola's 🇦🇴 UPR Adoption in partnership with Ondjango Feminista . Read and listen to the full statement here: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2025-ju...

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HRC 59
Ondjango Feminista and SRI Statement to Angola’s UPR Adoption.

“Angola must address violence against women from a broader social justice perspective and strengthen prevention work by getting to the core of the patriarchal ideologies that sustain the violence, countering harmful narratives, and uprooting the norms that perpetuate it.”

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HRC 59
Ondjango Feminista and SRI Statement to Angola’s UPR Adoption.

“We reiterate the call on Angola to allocate funds for the implementation of programs dedicated to end violence against women, commensurate with the scale of the need, and allocate appropriate resources to ensure full enjoyment of women's reproductive rights.”

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 04/07/2025

At the 59th session of the Human Rights Council, Sabrina Sanchez from @sexworkeurope spoke on behalf of the sex workers' delegation at the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls. #HRC59

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 04/07/2025

En #HRC59 en colaboración con Akãhatã, @reprorights.bsky.social y @sexualrightsinitiative.org , Isabella Morales de la Asociación Feminista Trans (AFET) hizo una declaración en el diálogo interactivo con la Relatora Especial sobre el derecho a la salud.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 03/07/2025

At #HRC59 last week, Trajche Janushev from SWAN delivered a statement during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on VAWG. "Sex-based violence does not reflect the diverse realities of those affected by violence."

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 03/07/2025

Durante el diálogo interactivo con el grupo de trabajo sobre empresas transnacionales en #HRC59, habíamos preparado con Akãhatã una declaración que no pudimos presentar debido a la falta de espacio disponible. Lea nuestra declaración aquí: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/es/news/2025...

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TEXTO: CDH 59
Declaración de SRI en el Diálogo Interactivo con el
Grupo de Trabajo sobre Empresas Transnacionales

“el informe evidencia que las relaciones desiguales de poder entre los Estados del Norte y del Sur Global provocan que estos últimos sean más vulnerables a riesgos como el desplazamiento laboral, la inestabilidad política y el aumento de la desigualdad económica.”

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 02/07/2025

At #HRC59 last week, Phelister Abdalla from KESWA delivered a statement during the interactive dialogue with the SR on VAWG. "As sex workers, we demand respect for our consent when we say we choose sex work and when we demand the full decriminalisation of our work for our rights, health & safety."

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Our Voices Our Futures @ovofconsortium.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

During the Human Rights Council in Geneva, sex workers and allies raised their voices at the Broken Chair demanding dignity, decriminalization, and recognition. The call is clear: sex work is work, and human rights must include all. #SexWorkIsWork #HumanRights #DecriminalizeSexWork

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 27/06/2025

El lunes pasado, Karina Bravo de PLAPERTS hizo una declaración en #HRC59 al diálogo interactivo con la Relatora Especial sobre la trata de personas : Lea su declaración completa aquí: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/es/news/2025...

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"Los Estados miembros deben dejar de comparar el trabajo sexual con la trata. Cuando lo hacen, estamos sometidas a más violencia, más discriminación y una mayor vulnerabilidad y nos perjudica, no solo a las trabajadoras sexuales, sino también a las víctimas de trata."

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"Al igual que el trabajo doméstico, el trabajo sexual es un trabajo. Merecemos los mismos derechos laborales y el mismo acceso a la justicia."

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 26/06/2025

At #HRC59 this week, Precious Msindo from Spring of Life Zimbabwe delivered a statement during the annual full-day discussion on the human rights of women.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 26/06/2025

Joignez-vous à nous aujourd'hui, 26 juin 2025, pour une importante manifestation au monument emblématique de la Broken Chair par les les travailleurs⋅euses du sexe et leurs alliés à la Place des Nations, de 18h00 à 19h30.

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Join us for a protestçOnly rights can stop the wrongs; a protest for sex worker rights

Place des nations
Thursday: 26 June
18:00 - 19:30

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Rejoignex-nous pour une manifestation
Seuls les droits peuvent mettre fin aux injustices: une manifestation pour les droits des travailleurs-euses du sexe

Place des Nations
Jeudi 26 Juin
18:00 - 19à:30

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 24/06/2025

Please join us for our side-event on Tomorrow: "Beyond Conflation: A Rights-Based Approach to Trafficking and Sex Work" Listen to Shaunna-May tell us why you can't miss it! 📣 #HRC59 side-event 🕚Wednesday 25 June: 13:00 to 14:00 CET 📍Palais des Nations, Room XXV

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