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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

The naval blockade of Gaza by the apartheid regime violates international law, and the interception of the vessels of the flotilla is therefore illegal, as also highlighted by multiple independent human rights experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

UN experts stand in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, demand full protection of all passengers

GENEVA – United Nations experts* today urged Israel to cease all threats of harm against the Global Sumud Flotilla and ensure it proceeds unhindered in its mission to deliver humanitarian aid to the…

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

SRI supports her efforts to be part of a collective action to break the illegal siege on Gaza by sea, open a humanitarian corridor, and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

Carrie Shelver, the coordinator of SRI’s Geneva office, has joined the flotilla as part of the Swiss Waves of Freedom delegation in a personal capacity. Carrie is a citizen of South Africa.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

The Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) joins the calls from activists around the world to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and the immediate release of all Global Sumud Flotilla abductees.

📢 Read our full statement here: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2025-oc...

PRESS RELEASE: SRI Demands An End To The Genocide In Gaza And The Immediate Release Of All Global Sumud Flotilla Abductees | Sexual Rights Initiative

PRESS RELEASE

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

🚨 On 2 October 2025, several members of the @globalsumudflotilla were kidnapped by Israel following an illegal interception of the flotilla boats in international waters.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

to dismantle the structures of colonial apartheid, and to guarantee the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination.

Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

Beyond ensuring the immediate release of the Global Sumud Flotilla members and the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, states have an obligation to address the ongoing impunity, violence, and unlawful killings of Palestinians,

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, has recently stated that any interception of the flotilla "would be yet another violation of international law, the law of the sea". www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

The naval blockade of Gaza by the apartheid regime violates international law, and the interception of the vessels of the flotilla is therefore illegal, as also highlighted by multiple independent human rights experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

UN experts stand in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, demand full protection of all passengers

GENEVA – United Nations experts* today urged Israel to cease all threats of harm against the Global Sumud Flotilla and ensure it proceeds unhindered in its mission to deliver humanitarian aid to the…

www.ohchr.org

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

and are assumed to have been illegally intercepted. SRI supports her efforts to be part of a collective action to break the illegal siege on Gaza by sea, open a humanitarian corridor, and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

Carrie Shelver, the coordinator of SRI’s Geneva office, has joined the flotilla as part of the Swiss Waves of Freedom delegation in a personal capacity. Carrie, as well as the Wahoo vessel crew she was sailing with, lost contact with the flotilla organisers several hours ago,

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

The Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) joins the calls from activists around the world to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and the immediate release of all Global Sumud Flotilla abductees.

📢 Read our full statement here: www.sexualrightsinitiative.org/news/2025-oc...

PRESS RELEASE: SRI Demands An End To The Genocide In Gaza And The Immediate Release Of All Global Sumud Flotilla Abductees | Sexual Rights Initiative

PRESS RELEASE

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 6d

🚨On 2 October 2025, several members of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) were kidnapped by Israel following an illegal interception of the flotilla boats in international waters.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 7d

The Human Rights Council must act with clarity and urgency and condemn Israel’s genocide, and call on all states to fulfil their legal obligations. This requires a full arms, trade, and cultural embargo on Israel, and concrete steps to end impunity for these crimes."

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 7d

Our action is rooted in the failure of states to stop the humanitarian catastrophe created by Israel and to end the genocide. Under international humanitarian law, our governments must protect us from any attack on the flotilla.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 7d

Today, a few hundred ordinary people from 44 countries are sailing toward Gaza to break the siege and open a humanitarian corridor.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 7d

even as Israel’s racist lies and murderous actions have been on non-stop display for all the world to see. We have seen how even the most timid attempts by the international community to hold Israel accountable are met by an escalation of aggression against the Palestinian people.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 7d

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"Western politicians and corporate-controlled Western media have ignored, justified, and lied about the genocide for almost two years,

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HRC 60: Joint Statement to item 9 on the Global Sumud Flotilla | Sexual Rights Initiative

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 7d

At #HRC60 Carrie Shelver, coordinator of the SRI Geneva office, presented via video a statement recorded earlier this week. Carrie is currently with the Waves of Freedom delegation of the Global Sumud Flotilla. As of this morning, her vessel, the Wahoo, has been assumed to have been intercepted.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 8d

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 8d

Human rights cannot be universal without an end to the colonial apartheid regime and accountability for the ongoing colonialism and imperialism. We reiterate the call by feminists to end genocide in Gaza and to end impunity for gender based violence. States must act NOW.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 8d

We continue to see some Western States obfuscate their complicity and violations, instrumentalising their so-called championing of gender equality and SRHR to avoid being held accountable to their double standards and complicity in genocide.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 8d

It is complicit in the mass atrocities in Sudan and in the DRC, where there are alarming levels of sexual violence with little to no access to medical support. This highlights a collective failure of accountability within multilateral systems.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 8d

In Gaza, Israel has targeted reproductive health facilities, blocked access to reproductive health, and committed horrific acts of violence in its campaign of reproductive genocide. The international community has stayed mostly silent.

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Sexual Rights Initiative @sexualrightsinitiative.org · 8d

To commemorate the International Safe Abortion Day, we recall reproductive justice principles: to analyse power systems, address intersectional discrimination and centre the most marginalised.

Find the full text of the statement here: www.abortionstatement.org

International Day of Safe Abortion Joint Civil Society Statement 2025 | abortionstatement.org

Thanks President!

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