TAG: Vietnam
Being transgender in the workplace is difficult in Vietnam or anywhere
The White House’s naming of a transgender person as the new outreach and recruitment director at the Office of Personnel, the first openly transgender person to occupy a senior position in the White House, is ground-breaking. The appointment of Raffi Freedman-Gurspan is a sign of the inclusive leadership of the Obama administration. The fact that […]
Read moreSame Sex Marriage Now Legal in Vietnam
While Southeast Asia’s Muslim countries, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, take a dim view of homosexuality, Vietnam is leading the way with its views on LGBT. With the enactment on Jan. 1 of a law that abolishes regulations that “prohibit marriage between people of the same sex”, Vietnam now becomes only the second country in […]
Read moreSPW Activities – October 2014
The SPW co-chair, Richard Parker, attended on 15 October, in Vietnam, the “Workshop on prevention approaches for MSM and HIV: global perspectives and Vietnam”, which discussed prevention and treatment to the LGBT community. Sonia Correa, SPW co-chair spoke in the panel “Sanctioned Sexualities” in the 27th International Conference of ILGA (International Association of Lesbian, Gay, […]
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