Human Rights Council Session: Week 3 Summary (Sept. 26-30)
The last week of the HRC session began with the Annual Discussion on the Integration of a Gender Perspective. The panel discussed issues of import that still affect women in some parts of the world such as female genital mutilation and sexual violence in prisons. But there appears to be some hope of improving gender perspective and integration through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Gender-related recommendations are the second most prevalent theme in the UPR; however, we were reminded of the Chinese saying that “the blossoming of a single flower...