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“Article 3 The rights to life, liberty, security of the person and bodily integrity • All persons have the right to life, liberty42 and to be free of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment43 in all cases and particularly on account of any prohibited grounds of discrimination, and shall have the right to exercise their sexuality free of violence or coercion. • All persons have the right to life and bodily integrity,44 these rights shall not be threatened or be put at risk to ‘avenge the honour’ of a family.45 • No person shall be subjected to judicial or extra-judicial killings, judicial or extra-judicial corporal punishment for their sexual history or behaviour, gender identity or expression.46 • No woman’s life or health shall be put at risk as a consequence of medical treatment being denied to her for any physical or mental condition, or based on others placing a competing value on the foetus she may be carrying. • No woman shall be condemned to forced maternity as a result of having exercised her sexuality. • All persons have the right to be free from harmful traditional practices, including female genital mutilation and forced or early marriage.47 • All persons have the right to be free from violence, including all forms of physical, verbal, psychological or economic abuse, sexual harassment or sexual violence, rape and any other forms of coerced sex within or outside marriage, in armed conflict or in detention. • All persons, including sex workers of all genders48 or in the instance of real or alleged sexual activity outside marriage, have the right to be free from the risk of violence created by stigma and discrimination based on their sex, sexuality or gender. • No one shall be subjected to arbitrary detention, nor subjected to the imposition of arbitrary or discriminatory sanctions for violations of imprecise or ill-defined criminal provisions regarding consensual sex.49 • No person’s sexual choices, practices or expressions, including real or imputed practices of sex work, can justify, excuse or mitigate punishment for violence, abuse or harassment.50 • All migrants and migrant workers, particularly young, female and transgender migrants, must have access, in the countries where they work and live, to the means of protection from bodily harm and from violence and abuse based on their sexual and gender expressions, as well as to the means to protect and fulfil their sexual health and rights. • All persons have the right to seek and enjoy asylum from persecution, including persecution arising from either a State’s action or failure to take sufficient steps to protect a person from serious abuse,51 on the basis of sex, gender, gender identity, sexual history or behaviour or sexual orientation or HIV status.52 • All persons shall be free from the removal, extradition or expulsion or threats thereof to any State where they may face a well-founded fear of persecution based on sex, gender, gender identity, sexual history or behaviour or sexual orientation or HIV status.53.” Link: https://www.ippf.org/sites/default/files/sexualrightsippfdeclaration_1.pdf --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support