This joint statement was delivered by the Sexual Rights initiative on 16 June 2023, on behalf of the #EmptyChairs Campaign and 15 organizations, during the Annual Civil Society Meeting with Special Procedures.

Rejeitamos a cooptação do marco dos direitos humanos, particularmente a noção defendida pela Relatora Especial de que o cumprimento dos direitos das mulheres trans, por um lado, e das mulheres cis, por outro, é ou pode ser conflituoso e incompatível.

Home is not a fixed place, nor a country. It is something carried, in the body, in memory, in the stubborn refusal to disappear. Home is a practice of becoming, shaped by what has been lost and what still remains.

Across the Majority World, movements are organizing networks of mutual aid and demanding an end to attacks on their fundamental freedoms. 

Solidarity is a practice, and the people of Venezuela, Afghanistan and Sudan are calling on us, in the international community, for collective, material support and resistance. Human rights defenders and advocates for bodily autonomy are also inviting feminist activists and organizations to co-sign and amplify key demands for justice and accountability. 

Over the last two weeks, India’s trans, queer and allied movements came together in a swell of solidarity to oppose the proposed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026.

The 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council takes place from 23 February - 31 March 2026 in Geneva. It takes place amid, what has been called by the UN Secretary-General, an ‘imminent financial collapse.’

We assert our support for the people - in Venezuela and worldwide - who continue to dream, build, and realize feminist visions of justice for everyone in their countries, despite threats of violence, repression, and dispossession.

From regressions in human rights norms to the inaction and complicity of powerful states regarding the genocide in Gaza, and the UN funding crisis, the existential question of whether global human rights institutions can offer any utility in the pursuit of justice and accountability has only become more central. 

Beijing signified a hopeful moment in time for feminists, but in the current world of multiple crises and a shifting global order, to what extent are these multilateral institutions able to respond?

As the 69th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) in New York City came to a close on March 21, 2025, feminists reflected on the impact of anti-rights actors on the outcomes of the session, in a context where gender justice goals seemed ready to be sacrificed.