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The Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) is a coalition of organizations from Canada, Poland, India, Egypt, Argentina and South Africa, that work together to advance human rights related to sexuality at the United Nations.
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- 2018 Oct 02Did you miss it? Here's what happened at HRC 39!The 39th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place September 10-28, 2018. Below you will find information on some of the key sexual rights related [...]
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Check out this fabulous thread of highlights from the #Feminists4BindingTreaty event that just ended. Big thanks to @SexualRights for capturing all of these key points from our panel!
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.@felogene, @AWID: "Corporations enjoy unprecedented levels of power, and their economic power quickly translates into political power. States and others attending the #IGWG session this week - if you care about #womensrights, stand up and speak out!" #Feminists4BindingTreaty
Adoración Guamán Hernández: "El discurso no puede ser que queremos un equilíbrio entre empresas y derechos humanos. Los derechos humanos siempre deben tener la primacía!" #Feminists4BindingTreaty #BindingTreaty #TratadoVinculante
Zenayda Serrano @Mufras32: "Este borrador cero del #TratadoVinculante debe permitir un diálogo abierto, transparente e inclusivo. Los pueblos más "vulnerables" no podemos seguir siendo relegados a "víctimas." #Feminists4BindingTreaty
Channsitha Mark (Workers Information Centre & @apwld): "We need a #BindingTreaty that is binding, because free trade agreements are legally binding while business and #humanrights are overwhelmingly voluntary." #Feminists4BindingTreaty
.@felogene (@AWID): "The #humanrights abuses & environmental impacts of #TNCs are not gender-neutral. The #Feminists4BindingTreaty demand mandatory gender impact assessments, gender-sensitive justice & remedy mechanisms, & respect, protection & an enabling Environment for #WHRDs"
Channsitha Mark (Workers Information Centre & @apwld) exposes the conditions of women garment workers in #Cambodia, who work 16 hours/day, inhaling toxic fumes. International brands buying from factories violating workers' rights need to be held accountable." #BindingTreaty
Zenayda Serrano @Mufras32: "El derecho al agua está vinculado con el derecho a vivir con dignidad para mujeres, y los derechos a la vida, a la salud y a un medioambiente sano, y el derecho de los pueblos a autodeterminación." #TratadoVinculante #Feminists4BindingTreaty #SRHR
Zenayda Serrano @Mufras32: "En nuestros países, hay procesos de privatización de la salud, del agua y otros servicios... mientras las economías de países industrializados van creciendo. En #ElSalvador las empresas impiden el acceso al agua y otros recursos en nombre del negocio."
Joan M Salvador (@gabrielaphils @apwld): "Here at the #IGWG session, we are negotiating the lives and #humanrights of millions of women in the Global South in the name of making business. Women are at the receiving end of whatever will comes out of the #BindingTreaty process!"
Joan M Salvador (@gabrielaphils & @apwld): "Export-processing zones are the sites of many #humanrights violations. Foreign companies operating in these special zones are not subject to occupational safety and health regulations, causing many deaths among workers." #BindingTreaty
Joan M Salvador (@gabrielaphils & @apwld): "In 1995, a law was passed to encourage more transnational businesses to come to the #Philippines, with tax incentives and relaxation of labor law. 70% of export-processing zones workers in the Philippines are women. #BindingTreaty
Joan M Salvador (@gabrielaphils & @apwld) highlights the ways in which women, especially indigenous, rural and poor women, have suffered corporate abuse in the Philippines, including in export-processing zones where they are denied the right to unionize. #Feminists4BindingTreaty
Adoración Guamán Hernández: "El enfoque de género debe estar en todos los aspectos: prevención, acceso a la justicia, y reparación. El #TratadoVinculante debe responder a lo que necesitan las mujeres afectadas y víctimas de abusos de corporativos." #Feminists4BindingTreaty
Adoración Guamán Hernández: "Se trata de dominación sobre los cuerpos de las mujeres – víctimas de asesinados machistas, de condiciones de trabajo horribles como mano de obra precarizada en empresas transnacionales... Se trata del capitalismo dominante, violento y patriarcal."
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