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The 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from June 21 to July 14, 2021.

As the events related to the pandemic unfolded over 2020, the partners of the Sexual Rights Initiative sought to capture some of the key developments in sexual and reproductive rights – from restrictive measures and moral policing to the force of protests rocking many parts of the world.   

Halfway through 2021, as we struggle with the increasing polarization of the world along established colonial and class lines, we would like to gather to both share information and perspectives and to collectively develop strategies for continuing to fight for sexual and reproductive rights in different regional and national contexts as well as globally.

The 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council will take place from June 21 to July 15.

The 38th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was held in Geneva, from May 3-14, 2021.

Fourteen countries were reviewed during UPR38: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Palau, Paraguay, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia.

The 37th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was held in Geneva, from January 18-29, 2021.

Fourteen countries were reviewed during UPR37: Micronesia, Mauritania, Lebanon, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Australia, Nepal, Oman, Austria, Myanmar, Rwanda, Georgia, Nauru, and Sao Tome and Principe.

We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to resist Israeli systems of settler colonialism and apartheid, and the ongoing oppression, dispossession, displacement, ethnic cleansing, and human rights violations they have faced for decades.

The 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from February 22 to March 24, 2021.

Please join us as we present the newly improved and updated UN Advocacy Tool. This database compiles UN intergovernmental resolutions, expert guidance and technical information on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). It has been re-designed and updated to facilitate advocacy, research and policymaking, and to contribute to accountability for SRHR obligations and commitments.

Information about restrictions to civil society participation this session, anticipated sexual rights-related resolutions, panels and reports, UPR outcomes, and our online event taking place during the 46th session.

We make this statement on behalf of the Sexual Rights Initiative, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Center for Reproductive Rights.