Want to know what happened during the 49th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review? Read our highlights of the sexual rights-related recommendations and states' responses in our round-up here:

Furthermore, this session also saw recommendations on the need to address forced marriage in all of its manifestations. More information here:

including recommendations focused on women’s rights to work and adequate workplace accommodations, to inheritance, including the right to inherit matrimonial property, and women’s right to own land.

and of the degradation of the environment due to inter alia the lingering impacts of nuclear testing. Additionally, recommendations continue the trend of the past few sessions of an increasing emphasis on women’s economic and social rights,.

14 Countries were reviewed during the session: Kyrgyzstan, Kiribati, Guinea, Lao, Spain, Lesotho, Kenya, Armenia, Guinea-Bissau, Sweden, Grenada, Türkiye, Guyana and Kuwait. Notably, the 49th session included recommendations focused on the gendered impacts of climate change,.

Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development is looking for members from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe and WEOG. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is looking for members from Asia and the Arctic.

Of particular interest, we note:. SRs on extreme poverty and human rights, adequate housing, unilateral coercive measures, right to food, slavery, human rights defenders, sale, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children. IE on the human rights of older persons.

📢 Calling all feminists!.Several key Special Procedures mandates are currently open for applications:. ⏰ Deadline 28 August. Find all relevant information here:

@actioncanadashr Read our full round-up of this session here:

@actioncanadashr The #HRC59 session included resolutions on women’s economic empowerment, violence against women and girls, the mandate of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, empowering women and girls through sport, access to medicines, female genital mutilation.

In this video, Meghan Doherty from our partner @actioncanadashr explains to us the importance of this year's resolution on eliminating VAWG, the negotiations around the language of gender, and the potential application in a Canadian context and its links to the right to housing.

Did you miss it? Here’s what happened at HRC 59!. At this session, the Council adopted by consensus a resolution on women’s economic empowerment. Listen to this video to learn more about the resolution. Find our full round-up of this session here:

It is imperative for all stakeholders to live up to the principle of universality, rejecting protectionism in all its forms and fostering meaningful solidarity and partnerships that transcend our organisational silos. Read our round-up of this session:

Ongoing initiatives to further protectionist interventions undermine the autonomy, consent and demands of people affected, such as sex workers, trans people, and other groups targeted for deviating from patriarchal norms.

Such attempts have included efforts to constrain the analysis of human rights and violence to strictly biological understandings of ‘sex’, at the expense of the rights of trans people and of efforts to address the root causes of gender-based violence.

In this context of multilateral crisis, it may be tempting to focus sexual rights commentary on the growing attempts to restrict human rights understandings so that they serve only a “respectable” few.

Did you miss it? Here’s what happened at #HRC59! We've prepared our highlights of this session on resolutions, panels, statements, UPR outcomes and side-events. Read our full round-up of this session here:

@BoliviaIgual @AkahataOrg Encuentre la declaración completa en nuestro sitio web:

@BoliviaIgual @AkahataOrg Asimismo, la falta de aceptación de las recomendaciones en torno al matrimonio civil de personas LGBTIQ+ sin un sustento jurídico válido, desconociendo el bloque de constitucionalidad.

@BoliviaIgual @AkahataOrg Vemos con alta preocupación que el Estado, no reconociendo estas restricciones, no haya aceptado la recomendación 122.274 alegando que no existe ninguna disposición legal que discrimine a personas transgénero;.