Protect Sexual and Reproductive Rights Defenders

SERIDNET is working to ensure security and protection of Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Defenders. This is because defenders of sexual and reproductive Rights continue to be silenced,
intimidated and oppressed just because defending these rights. In our work, we call on the state
to:
a) Recognize the realities faced by women who defend, promote and protect women’s rights, particularly those who defend sexual rights and reproductive rights
b) Adopt policies, strategies and measures to promote and protect women human rights defenders
c) Develop national action plans and budgets to ensure that women human rights defenders are free to exercise our right and responsibility to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in keeping with the United Nations Human Rights Declaration of 1998
d) Take effective measures to strengthen the access of women human rights defenders to safety and security in their homes and places of residence, their workplaces and in the full range of public spaces where we do this work
e) Ensure freedom of movement for women human rights defenders both within national borders and between borders as women human rights defenders organize on and promote and protect women’s rights
f) Pay special attention to women human rights defenders who work on and defend the rights of those women who are forced to the margins of society and are subjected to multiple discrimination and oppressions, including sexually active young women, women living with HIV, single women, sex workers, refugee women, lesbian women and women who have sex with women
g) End impunity for acts of violence and attacks on women human rights defenders whether perpetrated by state or non-state actors