TAG: Deutschland
Human Rights Tulip
Every year, the Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs awards the Human Rights Tulip to a human rights defender who promotes and supports human rights in innovative ways. The candidates that participate in the election for the Human Rights Tulip 2014 have been announced and the public voting has started today. You can vote on a […]
Read moreThe limits of German law allowing a “new third-gender”
Read New Statesman’s article about a German law that lets a birth certificate to be left blank in cases where the child is neither obviously male nor female. “it will take far more than a bureaucratic fix to remove the stigma of “abnormalit”, says the author. Click here. Here an article from Advocate.com that reminds […]
Read moreJudith Butler refused the Courage Award from the Berlin Pride
In 2010, June 19th, Judith Butler refused the Civil Courage Award of the Christopher Street Day Parade in Berlin, Germany, at the award ceremony, arguing that the parade had become too commercial, and was ignoring the problems of racism and the double discrimination suffered by homosexual or transsexual migrants. Read more.
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