UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights

UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural rights, Prof @brunellaw . #human rights #cultural rights #heritage #culture

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

"Strength, power and aerobic capacity of transgender athletes: a cross-sectional study" (2024) British Jl of Sports Medicine:
"these results should caution against precautionary bans and sport eligibility exclusions (...) not based on sport-specific (or sport-relevant) research"

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

@IE_OlderPersons Dear Claudia, what a fantastic idea. How will you do it?

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

On the IOC ban of trans women from the Olympics

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

https://t.co/CjPTqnTpF6

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

The #USA has justified its intervention in #Venezuela citing the Venezuelan government's record of human rights violations, but accountability for human rights violations cannot be achieved through unilateral military intervention that violates international law.

We fear that the current instability & increased militarisation due to the US intervention will further worsen the situation in Venezuela.

The future of Venezuela must be determined solely by the Venezuelan people, with full respect for their human rights, incl. the right to self-determination & sovereignty over their lives and resources.

➡️ https://t.co/AgQIoj5QtA

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

On #Eurovision: Well-done @Spain, @Ireland and @Slovenia! I have spoken out firmly against the current participation of Israel in sporting and cultural intl competitions.
Yet, any obstacles on Israeli artists would constitute unjustified discrimination.

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

My report on AI and creativity:
- AI offers benefits BUT cannot substitute creativity
- human rights trump AI
- cultural rights approach:
data sovereignty, opt in laws, accountability, measures 4 bias & 4 marginalised owners
- NO BIG techs setting agendas-need 4accountability

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

165 States agreed in UNESCO Mondiacult that cultural rights are indispensable to sustainable development. A huge success for participation of all to sustainable development with their vision, priorities, knowledge, methodologies and sciences.
Time to push for practical steps.

[Ministerio de Cultura @culturagob]

🗣 El ministro de Cultura, Ernest Urtasun, interviene en el acto 'Why We Need a Culture Goal Now' del UCLG Culture Summit, en el marco de Ágora Cívica

Participan 👇

🔹️ @AlexXanthaki
🔹️ @ErnestoOttoneR
🔹️ @MargarethMnzs

📺 https://t.co/FjSsteHniT

[agenda21culture @agenda21culture]

🔵#UCLGCultureSummit

@UN Special Rapporteur on #CulturalRights @AlexXanthaki at #CultureSummit:

"#SDGs are political commitments. They come with legal obligations that govs have signed and need to respect.
Culture just cannot be excluded from this frame."

#Mondiacult2025

[agenda21culture @agenda21culture]

✨UN Special Rapporteur on #CulturalRights @AlexXanthaki sharing a few words in the conclusion segment of the #UCLGCultureSummit:

"It is crucial that #LRGs have a voice in #mondiacult2025 towards defining the future of cultural rights and start boosting multilateralism."

[Reader @ReaderGr]

Αλεξάνδρα Ξανθάκη, πώς είναι να πρωτοστατείς για τον αποκλεισμό του Ισραήλ από FIFA και UEFA;

🖊️ Κυριακή Αξιώτη

https://t.co/y0Wn4y9mp4

[Dirección General de Derechos Culturales @ddccgob]

En la presentación del Plan de #Derechos Culturales, con @ernesturtasun Ministro de Cultura, @AlexXanthaki relatora de la ONU y @jbeirak directora de Derechos Culturales.

@cultuciudadania

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

@FIFA has again failed to listen to civil society and intl law and exclude #Israel from #sporting competitions. In the face of so many international expert opinions, it is such a let down to give in to pure political pressure. Shameful…

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

Yesterday I called with colleagues for suspension of #Israel from @FIFAcom & @UEFA amid unfolding genocide in occupied #Palestine.

Sporting bodies must not turn a blind eye to grave human rights violations, especially when their platforms are used to normalise injustices.

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

Yesterday I called with colleagues for suspension of #Israel from @FIFAcom & @UEFA amid unfolding genocide in occupied #Palestine.

Sporting bodies must not turn a blind eye to grave human rights violations, especially when their platforms are used to normalise injustices.

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

I am very concerned about the lack of clear action by #India to address events of physical violence causing death by vigilante groups which have disproportionately targeted the minority Muslim community. With colleagues, I asked the state to respond but we had no answer.

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

https://t.co/FhvAn5eWh6

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

UN experts reaffirm central role of gender in advancing human rights & express deep concern about attempts to reassert rigid, binary conceptions of sex.

https://t.co/3952ndf34H

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

Legal and policy frameworks that do not take this reality into account, or that impose rigid divisions between sex and gender, are *limited in their ability to meaningfully address structural inequality or ensure the full realization of women’s and girls’ universal human rights*.

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

https://t.co/jUPqc7t0FC

Today an unprecedented amount of UN Special Rapporteurs, 45 renowned experts, have reaffirmed gender equality as a cornerstone of human rights and substantive equality.
Despite the hate speech, the organised mob, we stand firm in protecting human rights.

[UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights @AlexXanthaki]

They recognise that Conceptions of womanhood are not modelled by biology alone, but through processes of socialisation, intersecting forms of discrimination, the enforcement of gender norms, and change over time. These interactions frequently lead to the denial of women’s rights.