CAL & SRI Statement - Racism, People of African Descent at the 46th HRC

Joint civil society letter on civil society organizations’ (CSOs) participation at the 46th Human Rights Council

HRC 46 - RHRN & SRI - UPR Joint Statement

As organizations based in the Global North, we are ashamed of our governments’ hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines.

As organizations based in the Global North, we are ashamed of our governments’ hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines.

UPR outcome of the United States (not delivered orally).

UPR outcome of Panama: joint statement with Mujeres con Dignidad y Derechos de Panamá & RedTraSex.

UPR outcome of Maldives: joint statement with a collective of young people from Maldives.

UPR outcome of Malawi: joint statement with Community Health Rights Advocacy, Female Sex Worker Association and African Sex Worker Alliance.

UPR outcome of Honduras: joint statement with the Right Here Right Now Honduras.

UPR outcome of Croatia: joint statement with B.a.B.e. (Be active Be emancipated).

Joint civil society letter by 13 organizations, including SRI, on civil society participation at the Human Rights Council

Joint statement (also available in French) during the General Debate on Item 3 from SRI partner Action Canada and 19 other organizations from the Global North denouncing their governments’ vaccine nationalism, hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines and blocking the proposal of a TRIPS waiver at the WTO.

46 Sesión del Consejo de Derechos Humanos
Declaración conjunta
Debate general: Punto 3 del orden del día

46 Session du Conseil des droits humains
Déclaration conjointe
Point 3

Joint statement (available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic) by IWRAW Asia Pacific, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the Sexual Rights Initiative and endorsed by a total of 71 organizations delivered during the General Debate on Item 3 on the human rights obligation to ensure equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccine, particularly to highlight civil society perspectives from the Global South on this topic.

Declaración conjunta (disponible en inglés, español, francés y árabe) de IWRAW Asia Pacific, el Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies y la Sexual Rights Initiative, respaldada por un total de 71 organizaciones, presentada durante el debate general sobre el punto 3, relativo a la obligación de los derechos humanos de garantizar un acceso equitativo a la vacuna COVID-19, en particular para destacar las perspectivas de la sociedad civil del Sur Global sobre este tema.

Statement with Action Canada and its National Youth Advisory Board during the Debate on the midterm review of the International Decade for People of African Descent.

Statement with the Coalition of African Lesbians during the meeting on the role of poverty alleviation in promoting and protecting human rights.

Statement with the Coalition of African Lesbians during the panel discussion on human rights mainstreaming, the fight against racism 20 years after the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Statement during the General Debate on Item 8 denouncing the bargaining of human rights through vaccine nationalism and vaccine ‘diplomacy.’

Statement during the General Debate on Item 3 from SRI partner the Federation for Women and Family Planning on behalf of the Great Coalition for Equality and Choice denouncing the increasing restrictions to the bodily autonomy of  women and girls in Poland.

Statement during the dialogue with the Independent Expert on Foreign Debt.

Statement with CREA on the dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities.

Statement delivered by Action Canada, its National Youth Advisory Board and SRI