The shifting politics in multilateral development and human rights negotiations and the absence of accountability

Halford, Stuart; Prasad, S. B. Surendra

doi:10.1016/s0968-8080(14)44813-4

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“…A shift towards governments opposed to SRHR appears to have taken place since 2014, and the second author has previously written about noteworthy gains in the HRC prior to 2014. 15 Much of the analysis and context in this article has been informed by the second author's experience as a civil society leader involved in the Council over the past seven years and from the first author's experience in working with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that supported SRHR and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in the Council from February-August 2017 and in November and June of 2019. This positioning has facilitated in-depth insights, nuanced contextual understanding of the HRC and its negotiations, and trust-based relationships with a number of diplomats and UN officials.…”

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How gains for SRHR in the UN have remained possible in a changing political climate

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2020

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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As right-wing populist movements make electoral gains around the world, one might expect that resultant policy and legislative reversals against sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) would be mirrored by a similar backlash in United Nations (UN) human rights negotiations. Yet the past five years have seen unprecedented advances for SRHR within the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), treaty bodies, and special procedures. In this article, we provide an overview of SRHR gains and setbacks within the HRC and analyse their broader significance, particularly as socially conservative nation states and non-governmental organisations seek to challenge them. We analyse how states have advanced SRHR in the HRC and examine efforts that states which oppose SRHR have undertaken to limit these advances. In an increasingly hostile political climate, the interrelated legal, technical, and political mechanisms through which human rights are advanced within the UN has helped to mitigate the effects of rapid political reversals. Additionally, the HRC's emphasis on previously agreed language helps dampen significant changes in resolutions on SRHR.

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confidence: 99%