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Sexual Rights Initiative
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Coalition of national & regional organisations based in Canada, India, Egypt & Argentina that work on sexual rights at the United Nations.

https://www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/
Trajche Janushev from SWAN reflected on rising autoritarianism in its impact on the work of the UN Human Rights Council during our latest side-event at #HRC60

 "Criminalisation and shrinking civic spaces are realities of everyday life.
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
At our latest #HRC60 side-event, María Luisa Peralta from Akãhatã spoke about the different dimensions of care, highlighting its need to be examined by the Council and its link to the right to health and economic, social and cultural rights.
October 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
At our latest #HRC60 side-event, Meghan Doherty from @actioncanadashr.bsky.social discussed the importance of the Universal Periodic Review in advancing abortion rights.
October 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Lobna Darwish from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights reflected on gaps and opportunities for sexual rights advocacy at the Human Rights Council during our latest side event at #HRC60:
October 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
At our latest #HRC60 side event, Lobna Darwish from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights highlighted the material determinants to sexual and reproductive health and rights, linking economic justice to the realisation of rights and the work of the UN Human Rights Council.
October 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
At our latest #HRC60 side event: Sexual Rights at the UN HRC: Past, Present and Future, SRI's partners explored how sexual rights have evolved within the Human Rights Council,
October 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🚨 On 2 October 2025, several members of the @globalsumudflotilla were kidnapped by Israel following an illegal interception of the flotilla boats in international waters.
October 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
At #HRC60 Carrie Shelver, coordinator of the SRI Geneva office, presented via video a statement recorded earlier this week. Carrie is currently with the Waves of Freedom delegation of the Global Sumud Flotilla. As of this morning, her vessel, the Wahoo, has been assumed to have been intercepted.
October 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Yesterday, Sept. 28, we marked International Safe Abortion Day.

Last week at #HRC60, our partner from Women's Resource Center presented a statement in response to the adoption of Armenia🇦🇲 UPR adoption, highlighting demands to expand access to reproductive services, including abortion:
September 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Earlier this week at #HRC60 we presented a statement in collaboration with the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies to the Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions.

@actioncanadashr.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM