TAG: UN
A 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 moreCrucial Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity UN resolution: SA’s vote will lead the way – but what will it be?
Three years ago South Africa and Brazil co-sponsored a historic resolution encouraging the UN to discuss discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). Despite South Africa’s leadership on this critical global issue there is, as of yet, no clear indication of how SA will vote on a new SOGI resolution tabled […]
Read moreSeptember 2014 Reproductive Rights Rundown
The Center for Reproductive Rights has published its September 2014 edition of the Reproductive Rights Rundown, highlighting reproductive rights developments in UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies (TMBs). Read it here.
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 moreHRC resolution on family must not undermine the human rights of individual family members
Amnesty International launched a public statement on the resolution presented by a group of countries at the UN Human Rights Council aimet at “protecting the family”. The statement highlights the dangers implied in the resolution, especially for not recognising the existence of diverse forms of family. Click here to read it.
Read moreHelen Clark: Statement on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
Read Helen Clark (UNDP) statement highlighting LGBT rights as matter of concern to all working on human development. Click here.
Read moreThe Vatican review by the UN Committee on Torture is almost invisible in the Brazilian press
The Vatican was questioned this week at the UN Committee against Torture in relation to cases of sexual abuse and violence that have been reported for years by victims and the media. This is the first time the Holy See presented a report to the Committee, since it ratified the text in 2002 . The […]
Read more58th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 58) and Conservative action
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) has launched analysis on the role and coordinated actions that Conservative forces played during the 58th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 58), in March. Issues like family and gender were on the spotlight. Read some of AWID analysis. Facing Fundamentalisms Spotlight (March/April 2014): “The Family” At CSW58 […]
Read moreInternational Statement on Women’s Right to Safe Abortion and the Post-2015 Agenda
Preliminary list of signatories and the statement in English and Spanish.
Read moreAfrica Regional Sexuality Resource Centre
Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre has published ICPD Beyond 2014 Global Report, which is the culmination of a landmark UN review of progress, gaps, challenges and emerging issues in relation to the ICPD Programme of Action. Click here to read it.
Read moreNew GenderIT.org edition highlights “Back and forth in the advancement of women’s rights at CSW58”
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Read more47th CPD results and assessments
SPW gathered news, results and assessments from the 47th session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD). Below, some of them released by now. RESURJ Public Statement on CPD 47th Amnesty International’s public statement on CPD 47th Young People Speak up for their Sexual and Reproductive Rights at 47th CPD Statement (In Spanish) by feminist […]
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