This joint submission in response to the questionnaire by the Special Rapporteur provides context to the analysis on laws on violence against women. As a critical aspect to understanding laws on rape and other forms of sexual violence, this submission locates penal laws within the larger structural paradigm that dictates and influences the enactment and implementation of these laws and policies. It provides critical analysis of the harms of carceral approaches or approaches that rely on punishment and incarceration, when addressing gender-based violence. It argues that the report of the Special Rapporteur is an opportunity to lay down clear frameworks on consent and to counter paternalistic and essentialist discourses.
Submissions for the 37th UPR for Georgia, Nepal, Rwanda and Saint Lucia
Country: Croatia
Collaborators: B.a.B.e. Be active. Be emancipated
Country: United States
Collaborators: SRI and anonymous human rights defender
Country: Malawi
Collaborators: Community Health Rights Advocacy (CHeRA), African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA), SRI
Country: Honduras
Collaborators: Plataforma Derechos Aquí y Ahora Honduras; Akahatá, SRI
Country: Panama
Human Rights Council – 28th session – March 2015
Item 6: Consideration of the UPR Outcome of Madagascar
Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development
Human Rights Council – 28 th session – March 2015
Annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child
Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development