TAG: trans rights
UNDP: Discussion Paper on Transgender Health & Human Rights
UNDP’s HIV, Health & Development Group has launched a Discussion Paper on Transgender Health & Human Rights, prepared by Jack Byrne, an expert on trans health and human rights issues. The aim of this paper is primarily to inform UNDP’s work and that of other UN agencies and foster greater understanding on the health and […]
Read moreThe devasting effects of the patologization of trans identities
The Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE) published a statement on the October 19 reaffirming the devasting effects of the patologization of trans identities. Click here to read it.
Read moreGulf states to tighten gender tests for expat workers
The Kuwait Ministry of Health has proposed tightening genetic tests for immigrant workers in order to prevent transgender migrants from entering the GCC job market. Click here to read more.
Read moreSTOP THE GENOCIDE AGAINST TRANS WOMEN! STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST TRANS PEOPLE!
Organizations, associations and activists defending the human and civil law of trans people denounce generalized extreme violence and murders and impunity that trans people suffer by the virtue of being transgender around the world, especially at Latin America. Click here.
Read moreTransgender ID a hostile affair
Read article about the situation of trans people in South Africa and the obstacles that they face regarding the identification country system. Here.
Read moreWorld facts highlighted by SPW on September
During the month of September, Sexuality Policy Watch has followed the global landscape of sexual and reproductive rights. In the Latin American scene, we highlighted the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean,which is part of the review process that will culminate with the Cairo+20 Conference in 2014. We published […]
Read moreOver 150 Trans* and Cis Feminists Sign International Statement For Trans*-Inclusive Feminism
In what organisers suggest is a ‘first of its kind’ move, an informal coalition of over 150 trans* and cis feminist activists, academics, writers and artists – from 11 different countries – have today (September 16) published a collective statement highlighting the prevalence of Transphobia within certain feminist movements spaces, and affirming ‘that feminism/womanism can […]
Read moreEdward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, the New Dissidents?
Read the article “Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, the New Dissidents?” about United States machinery that satisfies certain tendencies that are in the genetic code of totalitarianism. Read it.
Read more“Manning has initiated a rare moment of opportunity that makes mainstream silence a bit more difficult”, by Zillah Eisenstein
Read feminist Zillah Eisenstein’s article about the Manning case. “Manning has initiated a rare moment of opportunity that makes mainstream silence a bit more difficult”. Read it.
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