Sexual Rights Defenders Network (SERIDNET)

Advocacy

hermank256 — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 12:59:29 +0000

We do advocacy to advance policies that will promote the health and rights of women
and young people, particularly adolescent girls. SERIDNET is known as a bold and
independent force for sexual and reproductive rights. SERIDNET provides
opportunities to women and young activists to make their voices heard. SERIDNET’s
Advocacy work focus on sexual rights issues including
a) Comprehensive sexuality education
b) Criminalization and other restrictions on safe abortion
c) Gender based discrimination
d) Early and forced marriage
e) Female genital mutilation
f) Gender-based violence
g) Gender equality
h) Gender identities and expressions
i) HIV / AIDS
j) Maternal morbidity & mortality
k) Reproductive rights
l) Rights of intersex people
m) Rights of sex workers
n) Sexual orientation
o) Sexual rights of young people

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Raising awareness on Sexual Rights

hermank256 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:30:10 +0000

We implement media campaigns to raise awareness on Sexual Rights. This is because
Sexual rights are part of existing human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the
right to life, to privacy, to freedom of thought and expression, to freedom from violence,
to education and information, to equality, to freedom from all forms of discrimination,
and to the highest attainable standard of health. These rights are set out and endorsed
in the following national laws and international conventions, treaties, and documents:
a) The Uganda Constitution of 1995
b) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
c) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
d) International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
e) Convention Against Torture (CAT)
f) Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
g) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

h) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
i) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
j) Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW)
k) Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)
l) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
m) International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (ICPD PoA)
n) Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) SERIDNET media campaigns address and focus on sexual rights as set out and endorsed in the above national laws and international conventions, treaties, and documents

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Protect Sexual and Reproductive Rights Defenders

hermank256 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:28:21 +0000

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

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