Thank you. I make this statement on behalf of 20 organizations. We acknowledge the challenges confronting OHCHR, member states and CSOs as we attempt to resume critical human rights work while taking seriously health risks associated with COVID-19.

Annual Full-day discussion on the human rights of women. Panel 2: COVID-19 and women’ rights

Item 3: ID with the Special Rapporteur on peaceful assembly and association

Item 3: ID with the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

Statement on mental health: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Statement on the OHCHR Report on gender and race discrimination in sports

This submission is made by the Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI). SRI is a coalition of national and regional organizations based in Canada, Poland, India, Argentina and South Africa, that work together to advance human rights related to sexuality, gender and bodily autonomy at the United Nations.

Theme: Upholding the human rights of prisoners, including women prisoners and offenders: enhancing technical cooperation and capacity-building in the implementation of the Nelson Mandela Rules and the Bangkok Rules

Theme: Realizing the rights of the child through a healthy environment

This panel discussion will address human rights impacts, opportunities and challenges linked to the use of digital technologies.

This panel discussion will focus on good practices and lessons learned in the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in the context of the adverse impact of climate change.

Panel 1: Accountability for women and girls in humanitarian settings

Panel 2: COVID-19 and women’s rights

Item 8 General Debate
Federation for Women and Family Planning

Joint statement: Federation for Women and Family Planning and Action Canada for Population and Development
Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights
4 March 2020

Resolution: Promotion and protection of human rights and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (led by Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, Fiji, Luxembourg, Portugal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Thailand and Uruguay)

Resolution: Methods of work of the Consultative Group of the Human Rights Council (led by Iraq and the Russian Federation)

Resolution: The promotion and protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Africans and of people of African descent against excessive use of force and other human rights violations by law enforcement officers

Statement by the Sexual Rights Initiative and the Coalition of African Lesbians

Ms. President:
American policing has never been a neutral institution. The first U.S. city police department was a slave patrol, and modern police forces have directed oppression and violence at Black people to enforce Jim Crow, wage the War on Drugs, and crack down on protests.

Thank you President,
Action Canada makes this statement on behalf of the Sexual Rights Initiative, the Center for Reproductive Rights, RFSU (Swedish Association for Sexuality Education), Rutgers, CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, the Association for Progressive Communications, Plan International, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, MenEngage Alliance, the International Service for Human Rights and the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW).