TAG: sexual rights
CSW59 DECLARATION: A WEAK DOCUMENT TO ADDRESS THE WOMEN’ S AND GIRLS CHALLENGES
Women’s, Feminists and other civil society NGOs from Latin America and the Caribbean launched a statement criticizing the Political Declaration approved by Members States Monday 9 march in United Nations, in the 59 period of Sessions of the Commission on the Social Status of Women (CSW). Learn more.
Read moreSexual and reproductive rights global landscape in March 2015
Women’s, feminists and other civil society NGOs from Latin America and the Caribbean launched astatementcriticizing the Political Declaration approved by Members States Monday 9 march in United Nations, in the 59 period of Sessions of the Commission on the Social Status of Women (CSW). In Iran, two new draft laws were tabled. One of them […]
Read moreSpecial Working Paper – Sexual Minorities, by Rosalind Petchesky
The position paper The Language of ‘Sexual Minorities’ and the Politics of Identity, written by Rosalind Petchesky, in collaboration with Sonia Corrêa, Ignacio Saiz and Hossam Baghat, SPW’s members, highlights issues of terminology concerning sexuality and gender, and other aspects. Click here to read it.
Read moreWorld Association for Sexual Health’s Declaration of Sexual Rights
The World Association for Sexual Health has published the Declaration of Sexual Rights, in which it reaffirms that sexual rights must be respected, protected and fulfilled.
Read moreMeeting Report: Orientations and Identities: Sexuality and Human Rights on the Global Stage Conference
The meeting report for the Orientations and Identities: Sexuality and Human Rights on the Global Stage Conference, that took place in May, Los Angeles, has come out. Click here to read it.
Read moreOrganization of American States Links Abortion Restrictions to Violence Against Women; Calls on Governments to Decriminalize Abortion
10.03.14 – (PRESS RELEASE) For the first time ever a committee within the Organization of American States (OAS)—considered to be the United Nations for the Americas—is recommending that all governments decriminalize abortion in cases of rape and incest, when the woman’s health or life is at risk and in cases of fetal impairments. This OAS committee focused on […]
Read moreLessons From the First Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review: From Commitment to Action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
The Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) has published a report called: Lessons From the First Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review: From Commitment to Action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Click here to read it.
Read moreA Call to Action: Faith for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights Post 2015
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 2014 (IPS) – On the eve of a major U.N. special session on population and development, a delegation of religious leaders released a statement calling for action on sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. The declaration, issued on the sidelines of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly, urged […]
Read moreJoin RESURJ in Amplifying Diverse Feminist Voices Online
The Sexual and Reproductive Justice Resource Center provides various country and regional specific resources related to Sexual and Reproductive Justice, developed by our members, partners and allies. The SRJ center is an innovative and unique space where SRJ advocates can search, catalog and utilize existing and new resources in their advocacy and mobilization work. To suggest […]
Read moreWorking paper, No. 3 – Interrogating ‘Sexualities’ at Beijing+10?, by Angela Collet
SPW Working Paper 3, “Interrogating ‘Sexualities’ at Beijing+10?, written by Angela Collet, is an anlysis on the CSW and Beijing+10 process. Read it here.
Read moreDeclaration of women’s and feminists movements
At the VI Summit of President of BRICS We, the networks and the feminist movements of the global South, that gathered in Fortaleza, 14-16 July on the occasion of the VI Summit of the Heads of State of the BRICS countries, are committed to social transformation and the construction of truly democratic secular states that […]
Read moreSRI hosts Human Rights Council Event on the ‘Criminalization of sexuality and reproduction’
Alongside the ongoing 26th session of the Council, the Sexual Rights Initiative, in partnership with,Ipas, Amnesty International and UNAIDS, hosted a parallel event examining the interplay of the criminalization of sexuality and reproduction with the international human rights framework. Topics of discussion included the ways criminalization of different aspects of sexuality relates to control over […]
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