TAG: human rights
Sexuality around the world: Main debates
_______________________________________________________ Relevant meetings The V Conference of ILGA-LAC was held in Curitiba, Brazil, from January 26th to 30th, 2010. Regional highlights > Read these information in “Around the World – regional highlights” Also at the regional levels Latin America > Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) website (information in Eng / Port […]
Read moreWomen’s Funding Network’s Sex-Trafficking Study Is Junk Science
Read the article Women’s Funding Network’s Sex-Trafficking Study Is Junk Science, by Nick Pinto, on study regarding sex trafficking.
Read moreBahamas backs UN resolution on gay rights
Caribbean News Now The Bahamas supports the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution passed last week that affirms equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Brent Symonette. Link to story: http://bit.ly/lJJ2lt Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Brent Symonette. The resolution, […]
Read moreCAL granted observer status at the ACHPR
On April 24th, 2015, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights granted the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) formal observer status. There are many reasons for this victory to be highly celebrated in Africa and elsewhere. Read more here
Read moreCAL’s victory at the ACHPR: Many reasons to celebrate
by the SPW team In the statement , that appraises the decision of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights in granting observer status the organization, the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) retraces the long and riding home preceding this outcome since 2007, when their request for observer status was presented to the Court. But […]
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The Yogyakarta Principles
In November 2006, a group of experts met in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: UN independent experts, committee members of human rights, academic / and the defenders / es of human rights of people GLBTT. They / s adopted the Yogyakarta Principles on International Law Enforcement of Human Rights in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity. This […]
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The Brazilian Resolution
In collaboration with Arc International and Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD) SPW has organized an international consultation involving LGBT activists, from all over the world, in preparation for the 2004 debates of the UN Commission on Human Rights (UN CHR) that would vote the resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity tabled by […]
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Making Depathologization a matter of law
A comment from GATE on the Maltese Act on Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics. In April, 2015 Malta passed the Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics (GIGESC) Act, which encompasses, in a new and radical combination, legal recognition, protection and anti-discrimination measures. The Act approved by parliamentary consensus on April 1st joins […]
Read moreNorwegian Expert Group Publishes Progressive Gender Recognition Recommendations
The Norwegian Ministry of Health’s Expert Committee on legal gender recognition presented its conclusions and recommendations in Oslo today. The report proposes legislation based on self determination and improvements in trans-related health care service provision. The suggested process for legal gender recognition will be straight forward. The expert group recommends that a personal declaration to […]
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SPW Working Paper, No. 10 – Emerging powers: Can it be that “sexuality and human rights” is a ‘lateral issue’?
This article shares ideas discussed in the project first round of conversation, which was held in Rio in July 2013, and includes an analysis – originally presented at a panel at Conectas’ 13th International Human Rights Colloquium, held in São Paulo in the same year – on the way rising powers, since their emergence, have behaved in multilateral debates around human rights, gender and sexuality. It has been originally published in the 10th Anniversary commemorative edition of SUR Journal (Edition V.11-N.20- Jun/2014)
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