TAG: discrimination

UN Human Rigths Council 30th session: Sexual Rights Recap

Sexual Rights Initiative presents an overview from the 30th session of the UN Human Rights Council. It includes resolutions, panels and discussions, statements and parallel events related to sexual rights of which the SRI was engaged with during the session. Click here to access it.

Research Report for Transilience Project on Violence against Transgender Women in South Africa 2014

The Research Report for Transilience Project on Violence against Transgender Women 2014 offers relevant qualitative data to understand the discrimination and violence faced by transgender community in different parts of South African society.

Joint UN statement on Ending violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people

On 29 September 2015, 12 UN entities (ILO, OHCHR, UNAIDS Secretariat, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNODC, UN Women, WFP and WHO) released an unprecedented joint statement calling for an end to violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. The statement is a powerful call to action to Governments to do […]

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Preamble This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting […]

Brazilian academic institutions and CSO’ submissions to the OCHR’s resolution on the protection of the family

The Brazilian academic institution and civil society organizations listed below offered a contribution to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Report on the impact of the implementation by States of their obligations under relevant provisions of international human rights law with regard to the protection of the family, as requested by Resolution 29/22 of […]

Who’s Modi to discipline us?

Shiv Visvanathan @ShivVisvanathan Narendra Modi’s economic and technological policies might have limited impact despite the presence of stellar experts like Arvind Panagriya, Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian. If the first year of his regime has created anything it is not a regulation of the economy but a “civics of morality” or even of a preferred […]

The sexual politics landscape in July 2015

In July the hottest topic to be reported on is, undoubtedly, the global controversy that emerged when Amnesty International made public a draft policy defining a new line of work aimed at the protection of the human rights of sex workers, to be approved by the forthcoming meeting of its International Council (beginning on August […]

International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion’s report on the Human Rights Comittee discussion on “The Right to Life”

Human Rights Committee Open Hearing on Article 6 – The Right to Life to develop a General Comment Geneva, 14 July 2015 HERE ARE SOME OF THE SUBMISSIONS: THE FULL TEXTS CAN BE FOUND AT THE LINKS Joint Statement on behalf of human rights organizations from across the globe presented by Center for Reproductive Rights We […]

The Belize Pride Event: the overlapping of LGBT tourism and sexual politics

Gay and lesbian tourism companies have, in the past several years, taken a turn for the calculative. More and more, we are seeing rankings like Spartacus International Gay Guide’s “Gay Travel Index” which purport to determine which countries are the friendliest for gay and lesbian tourists, and which are not.

Anti-LGBT groups are making inroads across East Africa

Kenyan gay and lesbian organizations demonstrate outside the Nigerian High Commission in Nairobi on February 7, 2014. Simon MainaAFP/Getty Images NAIROBI, Kenya — Two years after Ugandan legislators proposed a law that would condemn active homosexuals to death, a precedent is spreading throughout the region. In Kenya, one political party is now working to do […]

Moroccan Magazine Under Fire for Cover Asking ‘Should We Burn Homosexuals’

Rabat – Weekly magazine Maroc-Hebdo has come under fire after it ran a cover deemed by many as homophobic. The cover depicts two men ‘intimately’ looking at each other in a swimming pool under the headline “Shall we burn homosexuals?” “Sure it’s an individual right. But what about moral and religious values,” the sub-head added. […]

Canada’s Lost Women

An investigation into the abuse and exploitation of aboriginal women in Canada and the authorities’ failure to stop it. 10 Jun 2015 15:03 GMT | Human Rights, Women, Canada, US & Canada, Law Canada’s aboriginal women make up a small fraction of its population, yet for decades they have suffered disproportionally from abuse, exploitation and […]