Sexual Rights Initiative

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Coalition of national & regional organizations based in Canada, Poland, India, Egypt, Argentina & South Africa that work on sexual rights at the United Nations.
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Show threadSexual Rights InitiativeJan 23, 2025
"Because we've been mobilising around the agreed language that is in those UN spaces, we mobilise around the need to hold the line. A line that is invisible to the realities of people, a line that is a line of words, literally, on a document. We focus so much on that language, on that line. And we sometimes miss out on the bigger things that are actually making us be there."
Sexual Rights InitiativeJan 23, 2025

At #AWIDForum2024, the #EmptyChairs campaign, SRI and AWID hosted a panel on global governance. The panel discussed the multiple crises of multilateralism and possibilities for collective mobilisation and systemic change and was composed of feminists who engage within the system.

Sara Martínez Cabello from RESURJ spoke about the need to remind ourselves of our end goals in terms of advocacy while working in UN spaces:

Sexual Rights InitiativeJan 22, 2025

At #AWIDForum2024, the #EmptyChairs campaign, SRI and @awidwomensrights hosted a panel on global governance. The panel discussed the multiple crises of multilateralism and possibilities for collective mobilisation and systemic change and was composed of feminists who engage within the system.

Umyra Ahmad from @awidwomensrights spoke to us about the co-optation of UN spaces by corporations:

Show threadSexual Rights InitiativeJan 22, 2025
"We're also seeing co-optation of UN spaces by corporate entities, whether in the pursuit of multi-stakeholderism or multilateral negotiations, using SRHR in opposition to economic justice. Human rights are seen as an afterthought. And they're actively being watered down by corporations and corporate accountability as a concept is being hollowed
out in itself."
Sexual Rights InitiativeJan 21, 2025

At #AWIDForum2024, the #EmptyChairs campaign, SRI and AWID hosted a panel on global governance. The panel discussed the multiple crises of multilateralism and possibilities for collective mobilisation and systemic change and was composed of feminists who engage within the system.

Sabrina Sanchez from the European Sex Workers Rights' Alliance spoke about how extractivism is an essential core of the international global governance system:

Show threadSexual Rights InitiativeJan 21, 2025
"The system was made to fail. It was made to function like this. People say the system is failing. No, no, the system is working exactly as it was designed to do: that is to extract, extract, extract."
Sexual Rights InitiativeJan 20, 2025

At #AWIDForum2024, the #EmptyChairs campaign, SRI and @awidwomensrights hosted a panel on global governance. The panel discussed the multiple crises of multilateralism and possibilities for collective mobilisation and systemic change and was composed of feminists who engage within the system.

Pooja Badarinath from SRI spoke to us about the restrictions faced by civil society in international governance spaces and the need to transpose advocacy from one space to the other:

Show threadSexual Rights InitiativeJan 20, 2025
"On the question of civil society space being restricted: we also see that quite heavily in the human rights spaces which are supposed to be built on participation, human rights. The higher securitisation, the restrictions, who can come in, who cannot come in, and it is increasing. So we also need to talk about how do we mobilise: the outside needs to be inside, but the inside also needs to be outside."
Show threadSexual Rights InitiativeJan 17, 2025
"People are taking the streets to express themselves, connecting the Palestinian struggle with Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Western Sahara, Sudan and Congo, and other struggles, environment, LGBTQ+, and so on and so forth. Because we know that these struggles are interconnected. And I think one of the spaces that we have within the UN and we need to mobilize a bit more is the intersectionality of these struggles together."
Sexual Rights InitiativeJan 17, 2025

At #AWIDForum2024, the #EmptyChairs campaign, SRI and @awidwomensrights hosted a panel on global governance. The panel discussed the multiple crises of multilateralism and possibilities for collective mobilisation and systemic change and was composed of feminists who engage within the system.

Shahd Qaddoura from @al_haq_organization spoke to us about the interconnectedness of struggles from #Palestine to #Sudan: