#HRC60 Kate Vigneswaran, ICJ Director for the Global Accountability Initiative, gave a presentation on the legal grounds for considering and addressing #reproductive #violence perpetrated in the occupied Palestinian territories as #genocide. Find out more 👇
www.icj.org/occupied-pal...
Check out our 🆕 issue of #R2P in Focus! This month's highlights include:
🇺🇳 Key outcomes from #HRC60
🎙️ New #EVAPpodcast episode
🔹 Recommendations to newly elected & existing HRC members
✒️ A Call to Action from @icr2p.bsky.social - & more!
👇 Read the full issue:
gcr2p.cmail20.com/t/j-e-ydlkky...
Discriminatory family laws don’t just violate rights—they hold back entire economies.
As part of #GCEFL, WLP convened leaders from governments, UN agencies, & CSOs at #HRC60 to spotlight how #FamilyLawReform is key to women’s economic empowerment.
Read more: wlp.digital/HRC60
Trajche Janushev from SWAN reflected on rising autoritarianism in its impact on the work of the UN Human Rights Council during our latest side-event at #HRC60
"Criminalisation and shrinking civic spaces are realities of everyday life.
At our latest #HRC60 side-event, María Luisa Peralta from Akãhatã spoke about the different dimensions of care, highlighting its need to be examined by the Council and its link to the right to health and economic, social and cultural rights.
Last week the #HRC60 made history. Resolution L.31 was adopted by consensus — placing human rights at the heart of global drug policy.
Read & share our analysis: https://f.mtr.cool/nmatmbscdf
In this week's issue of #AtrocityAlert:
🔺 ICC delivers landmark conviction as atrocities continue in #Sudan
🔺 #Israel escalates provocations at Islamic holy site in Occupied #EastJerusalem
🔺 Outcomes of #HRC60
Full issue: bit.ly/AtrocityAler...
At our latest #HRC60 side-event, Meghan Doherty from @actioncanadashr.bsky.social discussed the importance of the Universal Periodic Review in advancing abortion rights.
Image: On a yellow background a geometric pink shape. TEXT: HRC60 in review
Image: On a yellow background a geometric pink shape. TEXT: Sexual rights are shaped and constrained by interconnected global crises, unchecked extractivism, climate degradation, violent populism and toxic nationalism, widening inequalities within and between states and entrenched patriarchal, racist, classist, and ableist systems of oppression. Realising sexual rights, therefore, requires advancing the self-determination and collective liberation of all peoples.
Image: On a yellow background a geometric pink shape. TEXT: Calls for accountability were also reflected in the International Safe Abortion Day joint statement, endorsed by over 230 organisations and individuals, which linked reproductive justice to broader struggles against impunity in Gaza, Sudan, and the DRC. While the Council adopted by consensus the resolution on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, this progress stands in contrast with the broader failure of the international system to respond to intersecting crises and uphold the universality and indivisibility of human rights.
Did you miss it? Find out all about #HRC60 in our round-up! www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2025-oc...
Lobna Darwish from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights reflected on gaps and opportunities for sexual rights advocacy at the Human Rights Council during our latest side event at #HRC60:
At our latest #HRC60 side event, Lobna Darwish from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights highlighted the material determinants to sexual and reproductive health and rights, linking economic justice to the realisation of rights and the work of the UN Human Rights Council.
At our latest #HRC60 side event: Sexual Rights at the UN HRC: Past, Present and Future, SRI's partners explored how sexual rights have evolved within the Human Rights Council,
#Environment: What's Up in #GENeva from 13-19 Oct?
✅ UN Forum Democracy & #ClimateChange
✅ #MutiraoCOP30 #GlobalEthicalStocktake
✅ #MinamataCOP6
✅ #HRC60
✅ #GPW2025
✅ #eWasteDay
✅ #GreenAutumn
✅ & more
Check events, #jobs, & suggestions ▶️ tiny.cc/GEN13-19Oct25
As #HRC60 concludes, #KingdomNL thanks all delegations, experts, and civil society partners for their tireless efforts to advance #humanrights 🌍.
Together, we continue to strive for dignity, justice, and equality for all.
Empowered women, empowering others 🧡 - proud of TeamNL.
#KingdomNLinHRC
⚖️ The #HRC60 just reset the terms of global drug policy. Res L.31, adopted by consensus, affirms this issue as firmly embedded within the human rights mandate.
🔎 Our analysis: https://f.mtr.cool/zxyezoyhfa
Grateful to our partners and frontline allies.
The fight continues—people and planet before profit.
💚 #HRC60 #HumanRights
📢 Corporate disinformation is a human rights threat. From greenwashing to SLAPPs, fossil fuel and plastic giants distort science and policy.
At #HRC60, we urged states to regulate this assault on truth—and ensure environmental policy is led by science, not spin.
#ClimateJustice
🌍 CIEL was on the ground at #HRC60 because the #ClimateCrisis is a #HumanRights crisis.
From sea level rise to #ToxicPlastics, #FossilFuels to corporate impunity—we worked to center frontline voices and demand rights-based #ClimateAction.
🧵👇
Very positive outcomes from just concluded session of UN Human Rights Council, including new investigative and accountability mechanism on Afghanistan, as well as renewed mechanisms to address systemic racism and grave violations in Sudan and Russia #HRC60
ishr.ch/latest-updat... @ishr.ch
The EU joining consensus for the annual UN Human Rights Council resolution on racism is the right signal.
European states chose not to call for a vote bc of inclusion of language on #reparations.
The right to reparation for colonial injustices is non-negotiable. #HRC60 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1e...
From #ISDS, water-energy nexus, ocean #pollution, #JustTransition & #COP30, to implementing climate advisory opinions, the @GENetwork has co-organized & covered #HRC60 side & parallel events related to environment.
Thank you for following our coverage! ▶️ tiny.cc/HRC60Environ...
Environment-related resolutions adopted at #HRC60 include:
🔹 #SeaLevelRise
🔹 Mandate renewal of SR #IndigenousPeoples
🔹 Rights to safe drinking #water & #sanitation
🔹 Rights of #IndigenousPeoples
🔹 #RightToDevelopment
🔹 & more
▶️ tiny.cc/HRC60Environ...
The 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council has just concluded this afternoon in #GENeva!
With the #environment high on the agenda, consult the outcomes and decisions taken from #HRC60 ▶️ tiny.cc/HRC60Environ...
#HRC60 voted yesterday to continue scrutiny of #Russia 's dire rights record.
UN Special Rapporteur on Russia is a lifeline for Russian human rights defenders & civil society who work at great risk amid the Kremlin’s crackdown on critical voices.
Her report 👇
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
#HRC60 has adopted a resolution on the #HumanRights situation in Russia, extending the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur.
Amid escalating repression and over 1,000 political prisoners, the UN Human Rights Council reaffirmed: no State is above scrutiny.
Independent monitoring remains essential.
#Cambodia: UN expert Vitit Muntarbhorn alarmed by disturbing #HumanRights situation, calls on the authorities to drop the charges against political opponents, release those detained & take action to open up civic and political space.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... #HRC60
#HRC60 side event recap: Three years on, #China has ignored the recommendations from the 2022 #UN experts' report on #Uyghur rights abuses. No lawyer access. No end to arbitrary detention. No accountability. — @rizwangvl.bsky.social
❌ Punitive drug laws continue to fuel human rights violations.
🕊️ Our event at #HRC60 saw states and advocates call for the Council's adoption of a resolution centring human dignity.
WATCH:
Wonderful news - time to celebrate! #HRC60 renewal of the mandate Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of all #HumanRights by #OlderPersons, including a request to work with the Human Rights Council's Working Group in charge of drafting a legally binding instrument
docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/...
