HRC40th - Global South Leadership on Women’s and Girls’ Rights

Global South Leadership on Women’s and Girls’ Rights

We applaud South Africa’s leadership in bringing forth a resolution on discrimination against women and girls in sports that directly addresses the human rights violations arising from the intersections of racism and harmful gender norms. The resolution highlights the discriminatory regulations that sports associations apply primarily to women and girls from the Global South and black women and girls from the Global North. With a firm grounding in all persons’ rights to bodily integrity and autonomy, the text expands the normative human rights framework to recognize the multiple ways women’s and girls’ bodies are policed, regulated and subjected to racial and gender stereotypes.