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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.

The 36th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was held in Geneva, from November 2 to 13, 2020.

Fourteen countries were reviewed during UPR36: Andorra, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Honduras, Jamaica, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Panama, and the United States

Joint civil society letter on the arrest and detention of EIPR human rights defenders.

The 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from September 14th to October 7th, 2020.