Human Rights Council (HRC)
The Human Rights Council (HRC) is the key intergovernmental body within the United Nations system responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe. It holds three regular sessions a year: in March, June and September. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is the secretariat for the HRC.
The HRC works by:
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Debating and passing resolutions on global human rights issues and human rights situations in particular countries
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Examining complaints from victims of human rights violations or activist organizations on behalf of victims of human rights violations
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Appointing independent experts (known as “Special Procedures”) to review human rights violations in specific countries and examine and further global human rights issues
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Engaging in discussions with experts and governments on human rights issues
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Assessing the human rights records of all UN Member States every four and a half years through the Universal Periodic Review
AWID works with feminist, progressive and human rights partners to share key knowledge, convene civil society dialogues and events, and influence negotiations and outcomes of the session.
With our partners, our work will:
◾️ Raise awareness of the findings of the 2017 and 2021 OURs Trends Reports.
◾️Support the work of feminist UN experts in the face of backlash and pressure
◾️Advocate for state accountability
◾️ Work with feminist movements and civil society organizations to advance rights related to gender and sexuality.
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Colectivo Morivivi
Colectivo Moriviví is an all women artistic collective. Our artistic production consists of muralism, community-led muralism, and protest performance/actions. Our work is about democratizing art and bringing the narratives of Puerto Rican communities to the public sphere to create spaces in which they are validated. We believe that through artivism we can promote consciousness on social issues and strengthen our collective memory.





As part of their participation in AWID’s Artist Working Group, Colectivo Morivivi gathered a diverse group of members, partners and staff to facilitate a collaborative process of dreaming into, informing, and deciding on the content for a community mural through a multi-stage co-creation process. The project began with a remote conceptualization with feminists from different parts of the planet brought together by AWID, and then it evolved to its re-contextualization and realization in Puerto Rico. We were honored to have the input of local artists Las Nietas de Nonó(@lasnietasdenono), the participation of local women in the Community Painting Session, the logistics support from the Municipality of Caguas, and FRIDA Young Feminist Fund’s additional support to the collective.
The mural explores the transcendence of borders by presenting bodies like a map, in an embrace that highlights the intersection of the different feminist manifestations, practices and realities.
We also thank Kelvin Rodríguez, who documented and captured the different stages of this project in Puerto Rico:









About Colectivo Morivivi

Moriviví is a collective of young female artists, working on public art since April 2013. Based in Puerto Rico, we’ve gained recognition for the creation of murals and community led arts.
The group started out in local Urban Art Festivals. As our work became more popular, organizations and community leadership started to reach out to us. We began as eight high schoolers who wanted to paint a mural together. However, in eight years of hard work, we’ve faced many challenges. Now we are in a period of transition. During this following year, we aim to restructure the collective internally. Our goal is to open new opportunities for collaborators and back-up our decision making process with a new evaluation system. In the long run, we aspire to become an alternative school of art practice for those interested in immersing themselves in community art production.
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TRANSPARENCIA
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Deseamos agradecer a las personas que hicieron aportes y fueron consultadas para la elaboración de este Manual:
- Angelika Arutyunova
- Cindy Clark
- Kamardip Singh
- Martin Redfern
- Pei Yao Chen
- Srilatha Batliwala
- Veronica Vidal
Tácticas, estrategias e impactos anti-derechos
Capítulo 5
Los actores anti-derechos adoptan una estrategia doble. Además de atacar abiertamente al sistema multilateral, los actores anti-derechos también socavan los derechos humanos desde adentro. Se involucran con el fin de cooptar procesos, consolidar normativas regresivas, y erosionar responsabilidades.

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El involucramiento de los actores anti-derechos en espacios internacionales de derechos humanos tiene un objetivo principal: socavar el sistema y su capacidad de respetar, proteger y satisfacer los derechos humanos para todas las personas, y de exigir rendición de cuentas a los Estados miembro por su violación. Algunas tácticas anti-derechos operan por fuera de la ONU, e incluyen la deslegitimación y la presión política para desfinanciar a la ONU, o para que ciertos Estados miembro se retiren de acuerdos internacionales sobre derechos humanos. En los últimos años, algunos actores antiderechos han logrado una creciente influencia dentro de la ONU. Sus tácticas internas incluyen la capacitación de representantes, la distorsión de los marcos de derechos humanos, el debilitamiento de acuerdos sobre derechos humanos, la infiltración en comités de organizaciones no gubernamentales, las solicitudes de ingreso al Consejo Económico y Social bajo nombres neutrales, la infiltración en los espacios de la juventud, y las presiones para ubicar a actores antiderechos en posiciones clave.
Índice de contenidos
- Institucionalización de actores anti-derechos en los mecanismos de la ONU
- Exclusión y deslegitimación
- Disminución de los estándares de derechos humanos
- Cooptación - Construcción de un marco paralelo de derechos humanos
- Ejercicio: Sí, ellos son fuertes, ¡pero también nosotrxs somos fuertes!
- Ejercicio: Responsabilizar a los gobiernos
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Anchalee Phonklieng
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Ensemble contre la violence
par Karina Ocampo
C’est dans un recoin caché du Chiapas, au Mexique, que nous sommes arrivées, femmes et dissidentes sexuelles, pour organiser nos actions. (...)
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L’histoire derrière Crear, Résister, Transform par Coumba Toure
Une expérience magique de narration féministe animée par la féministe panafricaine Coumba Touré, dans la tradition séculaire des griots d’Afrique de l’Ouest
Et nous nous réunissons à nouveau
Nous avons rassemblé nos histoires, notre force
nos chansons
nos larmes
notre rage
nos rêves
nos succès
nos échecs
nous les avons rassemblés dans un grand bol pour le partage
pendant une lune de pensées
Aussi, nous restons en contact
Nous nous secouons l'esprit
nous nous caressons l'âme
Alors que nos mains sont toujours liées
Et que nos baisers et nos câlins sont interdits
Pourtant, nous nous renforcons d’heure en heure
Tissant ensemble nos voix
Franchissant les barrières sonores
comme nous parlons en langues
Nous sommes de plus en plus fortes
Nous connaissons ce qui nous différencie des autres
et les différences entre nous,
alors nous cousons nos beautés en patchwork de pensées
De nos apprentissages les plus profonds
de nos pouvoirs
Parfois, nous sommes entourées de terreur,
Par la confusion, la malhonnêteté
Mais nous nous purifions dans l'océan de l'amour
Nous sommes des tisserands de rêves
Pour vêtir un nouveau monde
Fil après fil
Aussi petites que nous soyons,
comme de petites fourmis construisant nos mouvements
comme de petites gouttes construisant nos rivières
Nous faisons des pas en avant et des pas en arrière
dansons notre chemin de retour à un mental sain
Nous soutenons le rythme de nos coeurs
Continuez à battre,
s'il vous plaît, ne vous arrêtez pas
ainsi nous sommes les transmetteurs d'une générosité oubliée
Goutte après gouttes, grandissant comme l'océan
grandissant comme la rivière qui coule de nos âmes
montrant notre force pour être l'eau qui lavera ce monde
et nous nous rassemblons à nouveau,
peux-tu nous sentir ?
Je mentirais si je disais que ça va
Que cela ne me dérange pas de ne pas vous voir.
Vos voix non filtrées et non enregistrées me manquent
Nos murmures et nos cris me manquent.
Nos cris de la révolution avortée
Nous voulonsêseulement donner naissance à de nouveaux mondes
Alors luttons pour effacer les frontières entre nous
Sil vous plait n’arrêtez pas
Hande Kader
Salwa Bugaighis
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We would like to thank the Amar.ela collective of women feminists activists and creatives who made this series possible, and especially Natalia Mallo (the team’s octopus) for her support and accompaniment throughout this journey.
We also extend our deepest gratitude and admiration to all the collectives and people who participated in this project, and we thank them for sharing their time, wisdom, dreams and hopes with us. We thank you for making this world a more just, feminist and sustainable one.
We hope the rest of the world will be as inspired by their stories as we are.
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