TAG: LGBTQ rights
Cerebral Palsy and LGBT
Having cerebral palsy (CP) and being gay appears to be a double-edged sword for numerous people, especially children in school who deal with bullying on two different levels. Yet, in today’s society, where sexual orientation is more accepted than ever before, awareness should be encompassed and accepted, but is it? Bullies Targeting LGBT Disabled Kids With Cerebral […]
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Intersex and Trans days: news, articles and campaigns
To celebrate both International Day of Action for Trans Depathologisation (22 October) and Intersex Awareness Day (26 October), SPW shares articles, news and campaigns aimed at highlighting challenges and struggles endured by intesex and trans people amidst several forms of biomedical controls and social stigma undermining their dignity, autonomy and welfare. Making It True – Global […]
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Launching FRIDA’s 5th call for proposals
Are you a young, feminist group from the Global South? Are you working towards creating a more gender-just world? We would love to support your feminist journey. Apply for FRIDA funds today! Here are five reasons why you should apply for FRIDA funds: Flexibility: FRIDA grants are flexible – they can be used for your […]
Read moreCall for Papers: Gender and New Wars
This workshop will bring together key scholars working across different disciplines in order to examine how gender is constructed in new wars and the consequences and/or advantages of new gender relations. It seeks to bring together emerging work on the formation, contestation and transformation of gender relations in new wars.
Read morePartner for Law in Development’s newsletter
Here is the latest edition (Vol. 9 (IV) July- August 2016) of our bi-monthly newsletter – covering significant UN updates, international events, national judgments and policy related developments relating to gender, sexuality and culture that took place in the months of July and August.
Read moreDecolonising psychology creates possibilities for social change
Psychologists drew historically from theories of social Darwinism and eugenics to espouse the hierarchical categorisation of people into race groups. African people were posited as the least human of all.
Read moreLGBTI Rights in Turkey and Recommendations
The book, Situation of LGBTI Rights in Turkey and Recommendations, including the articles of six experts major in different disciplines is now transferred to digital media. Those academicians who are parts of the advisory committee of “Awareness Project”as well, try to discuss the LGBTI rights from the different perspectives. Photo: Sevra Nihal Unal Kaos GL’s […]
Read moreThe Sexual Politics in September and early October 2016
Last month a large number of events took place across the globe to mark September 28th as the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal abortion. Of particular relevance was the massive women’s strike in Poland to protest against a new bill aimed at completely banning abortion. Its immediate effect was the […]
Read moreDid an Anti-LGBT Panic Help Defeat Colombia’s Peace Deal?
When thousands of Colombians protested on August 10 to demand the resignation of the country’s openly gay education minister, few saw any greater political significance. But as the world struggles to understand why Colombians voted “No” on Sunday to a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group, the seemingly unrelated […]
Read moreAfrica, homophobia and Western hypocrisy
Listening carefully to the at times homophobic and hateful commentary about homosexuality among Africans, a social critique of the international community and the local elite is heard. Dislike of homosexuality is used to protest at the levels of inequality and how corrupt African leaders continue to be supported by the West. The white savior complex ruins rather than helps the cause of LGBTI rights in Africa.
Read moreThe situation of the intersex community in Mexico
In Mexico and in Latin America the intersex community faces similar problems to those faced by intersex people elsewhere in the world, with some local quirks. Medical protocols still include genital mutilation, and these practices are justified as necessary to “normalize” genital appearance and so avoid problems in social interactions.
Read moreVitit Muntarbhorn: new UN investigator to protect LGBT
The UN Human Rights Council has nominated its first independent investigator aimed at protecting people in regard to sexual orientation and gender idendity across the world from violence and discrimination. Vitit Muntarbhorn will have a three-year mandate to investigate abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. Mr Muntarbhorn is an international law […]
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