SOGI UN keywords Archives: Sexual rights
Concluding Observations, E/C.12/DEU/CO/5, 20 May 2011: Germany
26. The Committee notes with concern that transsexual and inter-sexed persons are often considered to be persons with mental illness and that the State party’s policies, legislative or otherwise, have led to discrimination against these persons as well as to violations of their sexual and reproductive health rights. (art. 12, 2.2) The Committee urges the […]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, A/65/162, 23 July 2010
I. INTRODUCTION D. The right to sexual education: its relationship to other rights and the need for a gender and diversity perspective 23. In order to be comprehensive, sexual education must pay special attention to diversity, since everyone has the right to deal with his or her own sexuality without being discriminated against on grounds […]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to health, A/HRC/14/20/Add.3, 20 May 2010: Poland
III. RIGHTS TO SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH A. Access to information and sexuality education 25. Access to comprehensive, non-discriminatory, unbiased and science-based sexuality information and education in Poland is one of the issues related to rights to sexual and reproductive health that raises concern for the Special Rapporteur, particularly with regard to adolescents facing unwanted […]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences. Addendum, A/HRC/11/6/Add.5, 27 May 2009
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences. Addendum: 15 years of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against women, its causes and consequences (1994 – 2009) – A critical review III. KEY AREAS OF FOCUS A. Domestic violence 33. The mandate has applied international standards of equality and […]
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, mission to The Netherlands, A/HRC/4/34/Add.4, February 7, 2007
47. Although boys and men may also become targets, [1] HRV (honour related violence) serves to ensure women’s conformity with group norms and sustain control over their sexuality, as honour is seen to reside in the bodies of women. 66. There are about 20,000 women in prostitution in the Netherlands (8,000 in Amsterdam alone). An […]