The present report is submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to its resolution 27/32, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to update the report of the Office of the High Commission on violence and discrimination against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity (A/HRC/19/41).
Human Rights Council – 35th session
Item 3: IE on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Thank you, Mr. President. Action Canada makes this statement on behalf of the Sexual Rights Initiative.
Sexuality and gender continue to be sites of oppression, discrimination, violence and subject to harsh religious, legal, political, economic and social control. They have become the sites of geopolitical contestation and are often leveraged to win elections, obscure or justify human rights abuses in other areas and cynically used to subvert the universality of human rights.
Statement of Action Canada for Population and Development –
Item 6 - Universal Periodic Review – Dominica – Adoption of UPR outcome on Dominica – September, 2013
Human Rights Council – 31st session
Item 6: Universal Periodic Review Outcomes: Saint Lucia
Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development
Human Rights Council – 31st session
Item 6: Universal Periodic Review Outcomes: Lebanon
Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development