Statement

Human Rights Council - 39th session

Item 4: UPR Outcomes Cameroon Action Canada for Population and Development

Speaker: Pooja Badarinath

Thank you Mr. President,

Action Canada makes this statement on behalf of the Sexual Rights Initiative, the African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA) and the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL).

Gracias Señor presidente,

Action Canada realiza esta declaración en nombre del Equipo Colombiano de Investigación en Conflicto y Paz, Akahatá y la Iniciativa por los Derechos Sexuales.

Thank you Mr. President,

Action Canada makes this statement also on behalf of the Sexual Rights Initiative and AWID.

We welcome the panel’s focus on integrating a gender perspective into the Council’s human rights investigations. We particularly appreciate the panel’s recognition that there has been insufficient attention to pre-existing gender-based rights violations that are exacerbated by conflict settings, as well as the need to ground understandings of gender-based violence in the lived realities of the people most affected.

Thank you, M. President,

This is a statement of the Federation for Women and Family Planning on behalf of the Great Coalition for Equality and Choice from Poland.

Thank you Mr President,

I make this statement on behalf of AWID, the Coalition of African Lesbians, the Association for Progressive Communications, and the Sexual Rights Initiative.