Relevant / Nieuwe Aanwinsten: Politics, legislation, rights
| Title: | 377 and the Unnatural Afterlife of British Colonialism in Asia | |
| Author | Douglas E. Sanders. | |
| Impressum | Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 4 (2009) 1 , p. . | |
| Summary | The late 19th century saw the spread of anti-homosexual criminal laws to British colonies. The iconic example was the Indian Penal Code of 1860, with its prohibition of carnal intercourse against the order of nature,' a rewriting of the anti-Catholic buggery' law of 1534. The language of 377 travelled around the British colonial world. France and certain other parts of Europe had decriminalized homosexual acts a century earlier, so the colonial powers of Europe spoke with different voices. Modern decriminalization is largely the product of the human rights era - sixty years since the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. | |
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| Title: | Adding Sexual Orientation to New York State's Human Rights Law : Initial Information About Implementation and Effectiveness | |
| Author | Roddrick Colvin. | |
| Impressum | Journal of Homosexuality, 56 (2009) 4 (may), p. 485-498. | |
| Summary | While previous research has focused on measuring employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and establishing the need for laws that protect against such discrimination, very little research has evaluated the effectiveness of current nondiscrimination laws. This exploratory research considers the addition of sexual orientation to New York State's Human Rights Law as it relates to employment. In an effort to better understand the implementation and overall effectiveness of the law, attorneys in New York who specialize in employment law were surveyed. The survey results, based on the responses of 34 attorneys, provide insights into how well the law has initially protected individuals from discrimination, and how well it has provided redress for claimants of employment discrimination. The initial results of the research suggest that employees mostly seek redress for a hostile work environment, that potential claimants are concerned with confidentiality and retaliation, and that more training for employees is needed to combat employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. [ Copies are available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/haworth-journals.asp ] | |
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| Title: | A Human Rights Impact Assessment of the Ugandan Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009 | |
| Author | Sylvia Tamale. | |
| Impressum | Equal Rites Review, 4 (2009) , p. 49-57. | |
| Annotation | http://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/Sylvia.pdf | |
| Summary | On 14 October 2009, the Anti-homosexuality Bill was introduced before the parliament of Uganda. The Bill received international criticism from human rights organisations and states alike. If passed, the Anti-homosexuality Bill would legitimise, institutionalise, increase and perpetuate the profound discrimination and gross inequality suffered by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Uganda today. On 18 November 2009, Dr. Sylvia Tamale, Professor of Law and Trustee of The Equal Rights Trust, delivered this speech at Makerere University, Kampala, assessing the impact that this Bill would have on human rights. | |
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| Title: | Celebrating Our Sexuality | |
| Author | Nadiah Bamadhaj ... [et al.]. | |
| Impressum | In God's Image: Journal of Asian Women's Resource Centre for Culture and Theology, 20 2001 2 June, p. 22-27, 53-59, 60-63. | |
| Summary | Issues about discrimination and intolerance towards gays, lesbians and transgenders in Malaysia and China are to be found in the following 3 articles: "The Hot Potato: Sexuality Rights Advocacy in Malaysia" (Nadiah Bamadhaj, page 22-27), "Breaking the Silence" (Ng Chin-pang, page 53-59), and "Out of The Closet and Into the Courtroom? Some Reflection on Sexuality Rights in Malaysia" (Alina Rastam, page 60-63). | |
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| Title: | Culture, human rights, sports : the world is coming out in Copenhagen, 25 jul-2 aug | |
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| Impressum | Copenhagen : worldOutgames. 2009 - 259 p.: ill. | |
| Summary | Programmaboekje van de worldOutgames in Kopenhagen in 2009. Centraal daarbij staan cultuur, mensenrechten, sport en lol. Uitgenodigd om deel te nemen aan de spotieve en culturele activiteiten zijn Antwerpen, Melbourne, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Tel Aviv en Aarhus. | |
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| Title: | 'De acceptatielaag is niet bepaald drie meter dik' | |
| Author | Jos Versteegen. | |
| Impressum | Gay Krant, (2009) 615 (1 juli), p. 20-21. | |
| Summary | Homoseksualiteit is niet erg zichtbaar in Dordrecht. Homokroegen zijn er niet, Roze Zaterdag is er nog nooit gehouden. De stad krijgt sinds begin 2009 extra geld voor homobeleid. Kasper Stolk, beleidsmedewerker cultuur en homo-emancipatie in Dordrecht probeert ervoor te zorgen dat homoseksualiteit deel wordt van het stadsklimaat. | |
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| Title: | Decriminalising homosexuality in India | |
| Author | Geetanjali Misra. | |
| Impressum | Reproductive Health Matters, 17 (2009) 34 (nov), p. 20-28. | |
| Summary | This paper examines the successful fight against the provision in Section 377 of the Penal Code of India that criminalised private consensual sex between adults of the same sex. This law had led to serious discrimination against people engaging in homosexual acts, who were subjected to frequent beatings and blackmail attempts by police, who used the threat of prosecution against them. NGOs working with sexual minorities have also been harassed and sometimes charged under Section 377. By stigmatising homosexuality and threatening gay men with prison, the law is also likely to have impeded the battle against HIV. The provision was read down in July 2009 after an innovative, sustained, mass media campaign by activists. The Voices Against 377 coalition brought together sexuality and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organisations, who were previously marginalised, with groups working in areas such as children's rights and feminist groups, showing that support for non-discrimination towards sexual minorities was broad-based. Further legal and social changes are needed for LGBT individuals to gain full acceptance and equality within Indian society. However, the judgement transcended the LGBT issue with the implication of protection for all minorities and introduced for the first time in South Asia the idea of sexual citizenship. ©2009 Reproductive Health Matters. All rights reserved. | |
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| Title: | Dein Recht im Alltag | |
| Author | Wolfgang Wilhelm, Angela Schwarz, Stefan Dobias. | |
| Impressum | Wien : Wiener Antidiskriminierungsstelle für Gleichgeschlechtliche Lebensweisen. 2008 - 104 p. | |
| Summary | RatgeberIn für Lesben und Schwule zum Umgang mit Diskriminierung, Mobbing und Ungleichbehandlung. | |
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| Title: | Elke liefde telt | |
| Author | Boris Dittrich. | |
| Impressum | Amsterdam : Nieuw Amsterdam. 2009 - 351 p. | |
| ISBN | 9046804469 | |
| Annotation | Recensie op Ihlia-site. - 1e uitg. 2009. | |
| Summary | Persoonlijk verslag van het werk dat Boris Dittrich doet voor Human Rights Watch. Dittrich bezoekt vele landen en de VN om er te pleiten voor gelijke rechten voor seksuele minderheden zoals vastgelegd in de Yogyakarta beginselen. | |
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| Title: | Elke liefde telt : 'Die mensen hebben niets om op terug te vallen' | |
| Author | Adri van Esch. | |
| Impressum | Gay Krant, (2009) 612 (2 mei), p. 10-11. | |
| Annotation | zie ook Parool 15/05/2009 (knipsel bb/ba) 'Roze strijder wil geen compromissen meer' | |
| Summary | Een artikel naar aanleiding van het tweede boek van Boris Dittrich 'Elke liefde telt' waarin hij verhaalt over zijn ontmoetingen met een voorvechter van homorechten uit Nepal, met president Abdoulaye Wade van Senegal en met een transgenderprostituee in Buenos Aires. Dittrich laat de lezer getuige zijn van het taaie gevecht van gelijkberechtiging voor seksuele minderheden en geeft meteen een heel persoonlijk kijkje in zijn nieuwe leven in Amerika. | |
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| Title: | Equality mainstreaming. | |
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| Impressum | Brussels : ILGA-Europe. [ca. 2010] - [4] p. | |
| Summary | The term non-discrimination mainstreaming is now used at the European Union level to include other groups, which have been discriminated against, amongst which lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. This factsheet looks at equality mainstreaming as going beyond the anti-discrimination framework to achieve equality in practice. | |
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| Title: | 'Er is van alles in beweging' | |
| Author | Adri van Esch. | |
| Impressum | Gay Krant, (2009) 614 (juni), p. 22-23. | |
| Annotation | http://www.filad.nl | |
| Summary | Wim Monasso werkt als adviseur voor het consultancybureau Filad (Filantropie en Advies) in Den Haag. Hij legt in zijn werk de nadruk op rechten van gediscrimineerde seksuele minderheden. Monasso's rondgang langs vijftig organisaties en honderd gesprekspartners in Marokko, Tunesië, Egypte, Libanon, Jordanië, Palestina en Israël leverde een mozaiëk van menselijke vernieuwingsdrang rond seksualiteitsbeleving op. | |
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| Title: | ERT Legal Brief on the Ugandan Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009 (Excerpts). | |
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| Impressum | Equal Rites Review, 4 (2009) , p. 58-70. | |
| Annotation | http://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/legal%20brief.pdf | |
| Summary | On 9 December 2009, ERT has submitted a legal brief to Ugandan President Yowere Museveni outlining how adoption of the Anti-homosexuality Bill currently being debated would breach both Ugandas Constitution and its international treaty obligations. ERTs submission calls on President Museveni and Ugandan parliamentarians to reject the Bill in its entirety, and to review the constitutionality of section 145 of the Ugandan Penal Code, which is currently used to prosecute homosexual conduct. | |
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| Title: | Ervaringen met discriminatie : een onderzoek onder bewoners van De Baarsjes | |
| Author | Josca Boers, Marian Visser, Willem Bosveld. | |
| Impressum | Amsterdam : Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Onderzoek en Statistiek. 2006 - 33 p.: ill. | |
| Annotation | Met bijlagen. - Bijlage 2 de Vragenlijst ontbreekt. | |
| Summary | Stadsdeel De Baarsjes in Amsterdam heeft laten onderzoeken hoe haar bewoners discriminatie ervaren en welke verschillende vormen van discriminatie er voorkomen. Van de 32 homoseksuelen uit de steekproef onder 558 personen geven 11 aan zich gediscrimineerd te voelen (34%). De groep van 12 biseksuelen is niet verder uitgesplitst. | |
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| Title: | Even Lesbian Youths or Those Presumed to be Lesbians Are Protected by the Constitution of Uganda - But to a Limited Extent : Rules the High Court | |
| Author | Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi. | |
| Impressum | Journal of LGBT Youth, 6 (2009) 4 (oct-dec), p. 441-445. | |
| Summary | The Ugandan Penal Code criminalizes same-sex relationships. The author analyzes the Ugandan High Court decision where the judge relied on the Constitution and international human rights instruments to hold that law enforcement officers must respect the rights to privacy and human dignity even of those people presumed to be in same-sex relationships. [ Copies are available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/haworth-journals.asp ] | |
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| Title: | Gay angels | |
| Author | Belia Heilbron ; Kathalijne Buitenweg, Sophie in 't Veld, Emine Bozkurt, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert. | |
| Impressum | Gay & Night, (2009) 135 (juni), p. 36-37. | |
| Summary | Een gesprek met vier europarlementariers: Kathalijne Buitenweg van Groenlinks, Sophie in 't Veld van D66, Emine Bozkurt van de Partij van de Arbeid en Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert van de VVD. Ze strijden al jaren voor homorechten in Europa. Het gesprek is naar aanleiding van een rapport, gemaakt in opdracht van het Europees Parlement, dat laat zien hoe het gesteld is met de homo-emancipatie in verschillende Europese landen. | |
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| Title: | Gay Pride as Violent Containment in Romania : A Brave New Europe | |
| Author | Shannon Woodcock. | |
| Impressum | Sextures, E-Journal for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics, 1 (2009) 1 , p. . | |
| Annotation | This article can be downloaded on http://o.b5z.net/i/u/10034758/i/Woodcock Gay Pride Romania Sextures Volume 1 Issue 1 Enl.pdf | |
| Summary | Violence against Gay Pride parades in post-socialist Europe is the spectacle that puts the East on the Western gaydar. Regular incident reports on violence tell simple stories of victimisation, homogenising the dynamic contestations of sexual, national, ideological and ethnic identities that are fought in the streets of radically different societies every year. This article is a record of related moments in time on the cusp of Romanian accession to the European Union, as the scepticism earnt by activists over almost two decades of civil society development meets the new EUropean model, the rhetorical claim to gay rights as human rights. Despite Romanias political commitment to citizen rights as a member of the European Union since January 2007, basic rights to freedom of movement and physical safety are being policed and contained by hegemonic Romanian discourses of who has the right to visibility in the national community. This paper analyses the first three Gay Pride marches (GayFest) in Romania, in 2005, 2006 and 2007, and charts state sanctioned neo-fascist resistance to this representation in public space. This study traces how the Romanian state utilises the language and resources of EUropean nonviolent tolerance to police and contain diversity. | |
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| Title: | Hate crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons and the policy response of international governmental organisations | |
| Author | Joke Swiebel, Dennis van der Veur. | |
| Impressum | Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 27 (2009) 4 (dec), p. 485-524. | |
| Summary | International governmental organisations (IGOs) understand discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals mostly as unequal treatment in spheres such as employment, pensions, housing or insurances. Hate crimes are often not taken on board, though they can be regarded as the most cruel and violent form of discrimination and oppression of minorities. This article explores to what extent IGOs, that is the European Union, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States and the United Nations have incorporated the issue of hate crime in their policies to fight discrimination against LGBT persons. These organisations vary in their response, but most approaches so far are only partial ones. This is not only a question of a lack of political will. Sound analyses, coherent concepts and methodologies and the collecting of relevant and comparable data are also part of the equation. | |
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| Title: | Homoseksualiteit binnen de EU : een analyse | |
| Author | Nina de Haan. | |
| Impressum | Gay & Night, (2009) 135 (juni), p. 32-34. | |
| Summary | Homorechten binnen de EU. De feiten op een rijtje over de thema's: 'is homoseksualiteit legaal?', 'worden homoseksuele relaties erkend?', 'mogen homostellen adopteren', 'openlijk homoseksueel zijn in het leger?' en 'homodiscriminatie verboden?'. | |
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| Title: | Homosexuality and the Military : A Review of the Literature | |
| Author | G. Dean Sinclair. | |
| Impressum | Journal of Homosexuality, 56 (2009) 6 (aug), p. 701-718. | |
| Summary | Homosexual men and women have been subjected to constant discrimination and stigma while trying to do what most heterosexual individuals take for granted, serving their country. It is somewhat paradoxical that gays and lesbians who are treated as second-class citizens by their own country and government, with limited rights, would want to risk their lives and potentially die for that same country. As the literature illustrates, many homosexual men and women have chosen such a profession in order to justify their existence and demonstrate that they are worthy of the same rights as others. Just as women and African Americans eventually earned their status as equal members of society and proved their worthiness to serve in the military, homosexuals are now trying to achieve the same. [ Copies are available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/haworth-journals.asp ] | |
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| Title: | Human Rights Advocacy on Gender Issues : Challenges and Opportunities | |
| Author | Stephanie Farrior. | |
| Impressum | Journal of Human Rights Practice, 1 (2009) 1 (march), p. 83-100. | |
| Summary | Recent years have seen notable progress on issues of gender and human rights in standard-setting and to some extent application of those standards through international and domestic legislation and jurisprudence, and in institutional programming and development. Some international and regional human rights bodies now go beyond just including women in a list of vulnerable groups, and have begun to incorporate women's experiences and perspectives into recommendations for structural changes needed to bring about full enjoyment of human rights by women and girls. In addition, recent years have seen the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people being taken up beyond the first human rights bodies that addressed them, and developments have taken place in standard-setting. Despite this progress, many challenges remain. Violence against women continues at a staggering rate. Gender-based discrimination persists in the workplace, housing, education, disaster relief, health care, and countless other areas. Access to justice continues to be hindered by a range of obstacles. Religion, tradition, and culture continue to be used as a shield for violating women's rights. Same-sex conduct is still criminalized in scores of countries, and it carries the death penalty in seven states. The traditional human rights law paradigm, with its focus on the state, may be obsolete in dealing with human rights abuses by such diverse non-state actors as powerful militias and global corporations. This article highlights just a few opportunities and challenges to come for international human rights advocacy on gender issues. | |
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| Title: | Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity at the UN General Assembly | |
| Author | Kate Sheill. | |
| Impressum | Journal of Human Rights Practice, 1 (2009) 2 (june), p. 315-319. | |
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| Title: | Humure krijgt steun van ambassades : Vereniging haalt homo's in Burundi uit verdomhoekje | |
| Author | Boudewijn Denissen. | |
| Impressum | Gay Krant, (2009) 615 (1 juli), p. 26-27. | |
| Summary | Het Burundese parlement besloot homoseksualiteit strafbaar te stellen. De Vereniging Humure neemt het op voor de plaatselijke homo's en lesbiennes, met steun van Nederland, België en andere landen. Voorzitter Chris Rumu doet zijn verhaal. | |
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| Title: | 'Ik ga die discussie niet uit de weg. Het gaat om mensenrechten' : Minister Maxime Verhagen strijdt tegen strafbaarstelling homoseksualiteit | |
| Author | Henk Krol, Adri van Esch. | |
| Impressum | Gay Krant, (2009) 612 (2 mei), p. 6-9. | |
| Summary | Mensenrechten vormen een speerpunt in het beleid van minister Maxime Verhagen van Buitenlandse Zaken. Een belangrijke onderdeel daarvan is de strijd tegen de strafbaarstelling van homoseksualiteit. | |
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| Title: | Kiezen voor de stad : economisch groeien : sociaal versterken : duurzaam investeren : programakkoord 2010-2014 | |
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| Impressum | Amsterdam : [s.n.]. 2010 - 29 bl. | |
| Summary | Gemeentelijk programakkoord tussen GroenLinks, VVD en PvdA voor Amsterdam van 2010- t/m 2014. Met een korte alinea over hlbt-beleid. | |
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| Title: | Naz Foundation v. Government of NCT of Delhi and Others : ERT Case Note. | |
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| Impressum | Equal Rites Review, 4 (2009) , p. 71-74. | |
| Annotation | http://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/case%20note.pdf | |
| Summary | On 2 July 2009, the High Court of Delhi ended over a century of discriminatory treatment against people because of their sexual orientation by declaring the application of significant elements of Section 377 of the India Penal Code (IPC) unconstitutional. Section 377 is a relic of the British legal system and in effect it criminalised same-sex conduct. This case note sets out the facts of the case, examines the judicial reasoning behind the judgment and comments on some of the implications of the decision. | |
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| Title: | Oost west thuis best | |
| Author | Boris Dittrich. | |
| Impressum | Gay Krant, (2009) 611 (11 apr), p. 22-23. | |
| Summary | Boris Dittrich is advocacy director van het programma seksuele minderheden bij de in New York gevestigde organisatie Human Rights Watch. Hij constateert wereldwijd zoveel onrecht, dat hij tot de conclusie komt dat het best mee valt in Nederland met homoemancipatie. | |
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| Title: | Putting the T into South African Human Rights : Transsexuality in the Post-Apartheid Order | |
| Author | Louise Vincent, Bianca Camminga. | |
| Impressum | Sexualities, 12 (2009) 6 (dec), p. 678-700. | |
| Summary | Informed by narratives provided by self-identified South African transsexuals, whose lives span different periods of South Africas political and social history, this article seeks to explore how South Africas medical, legal and military establishments have exerted power over the transsexual body. A variety of studies outline the extent to which the apartheid state was a highly gendered state characterized by inflexible patriarchal norms and the dominance of violent and authoritarian forms of masculine expression. Hyper masculinization and militarization were explicit goals of the apartheid state. Deviance from the states prescribed gender norms was not simply socially unacceptable, it was, in many cases, punishable. South Africas post-1994 democratic Constitution, in contrast, explicitly outlaws discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. But the democratic legal framework, which provides significant protections for freedom of sexual expression and freedom from discrimination for homosexuals has arguably had less of an impact on the lives of South Africas transsexual community. The state, even the post-apartheid state, has been loathe to move beyond the idea of a necessary correlation between the physical make-up of the body and the gender identity of a person in the way in which it has treated the idea of transsexualism. | |
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| Title: | Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity. | |
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| Impressum | [Strasbourg] : Council of Europe, Committee of Ministers. 2010 - 5 bl. | |
| Annotation | Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 31 March 2010 at te 1081st meeting of the Ministers' Deputies. - Aanbevelingen met appendix zijn te downloaden op: https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1606669 | |
| Summary | This recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 is the most detailed (non-binding) recommendation on LGBT human rights ever adopted by the inter-governmental body of an international organisation. Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 31 March 2010 at te 1081st meeting of the Ministers' Deputies. | |
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| Title: | SexPolitics : reports from the front lines | |
| Author | ed. by Richard Parker, Rosalind Petchesky and Robert Sember. | |
| Impressum | Rio de Janeiro [etc.] : Sexuality Policy Watch. [2009] - 412 bl.: ill. | |
| Annotation | In print: bl. 1-27, 383-412. - Bibliogr.: passim. - Rapport it downloaden op: http://www.sxpolitics.org/frontlines/book/pdf/sexpolitics.pdf | |
| Summary | SexPolitics is a comparative study of the politics of sexuality, sexual health and sexual rights in eight countries and two global institutions. The work contained in SexPolitics has been developed under the auspices of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), a global forum composed of researchers and activists from a wide range of countries and regions of the world. Inspired by local and international initiatives, the SPW's mandate is twofold: to contribute to sexuality-related global policy debates through strategic policy-oriented research and analysis projects, and to promote more effective linkages between local, regional and global initiatives. Over the past few decades, sexuality has become the focal point for political controversy and a key domain for social change. Issues such as protecting sexual freedoms and enhancing access to resources that promote sexual health are among the SPW's central concerns. The documents that are included in SexPolitics are based on research that has been carried out between 2004 and 2007 on sexuality and politics in Brazil, Egypt, India, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, Vietnam, the United Nations and the World Bank. | |
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| Title: | Sexual orientation - gender identity references : U.S. Department of State human rights reports for 2009. | |
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| Impressum | [Washington, DC : GLAA]. 2010 - 13 bl. | |
| Annotation | GLAA is Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance. - Rapport is te downloaden op: http://www.globalequality.org/storage/cfge/documents/2009%20hr%20report%20sogi%20references.pdf | |
| Summary | In GLAA archief ook o.d.t.: Global Equality excerpts GLBT items in State Dept.'s Country Reports for 2009. Kort beschrijving per land van anti hlbt-wetten en uitvoering van wetten en van geweldadige acties van burgers tegen hlbt medeburgers. | |
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| Title: | The Effects of Sexual Orientation on State Legislators' Behavior and Priorities | |
| Author | Rebekah Herrick. | |
| Impressum | Journal of Homosexuality, 56 (2009) 8 (nov), p. 1117-1133. | |
| Summary | This article explores whether sexual orientation, surrogate representation, and political factors affect legislators' work on gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) interests, and whether the latter explains away the influence of sexual orientation. A survey of openly GLB state legislators and their colleagues was conducted to measure legislators' campaign issues, legislative priorities, surrogate representation, and ambition. This information is supplemented with bill introduction and district data. The results indicate that legislators' sexual orientation strongly influences their work on GLB issues and although surrogate representation and electoral considerations also affect GLB work, they do not explain away the importance of sexual orientation. The implications of this for the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation are explored. [ Copies are available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/haworth-journals.asp ] | |
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| Title: | Transgender people and the gender recast directive - implementation guidelines | |
| Author | Stefano Fabeni, Silvan Agius. | |
| Impressum | Brussels : ILGA Europe. 2009 - 30 p.: ill. | |
| ISBN | 9295066021 | |
| Summary | The aim of these guidelines is to provide an introduction to the content of the Gender Recast Directive and an overview of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), and their relevance for trans people living in the European Union. These Guidelines are also designed to give guidance on how to improve the implementation of the Gender Recast Directive vis-a-vis gender identity, and to ensure equality for all trans people in the countries where the Directive is applicable. | |
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| Title: | Uitslag kiezersonderzoek : verlinksing onder holebi's in Nederland. | |
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| Impressum | Gay & Night, (2009) 135 (juni), p. 35. | |
| Summary | Uit kiezersonderzoek blijkt dat homo's en lesbo's en masse stemmen voor D66. De voornaamste conclusie van het onderzoek is dat de holebi-gemeenschap voornamelijk stemt op partijen die duidelijk opkomen voor de rechten van de holebi's. Zo'n 1600 homo's en lesbo's deden mee aan het onderzoek. | |
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| Title: | When Politics Distort Science : What Mental Health Professionals Can Do | |
| Author | Jack Drescher. | |
| Impressum | Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 13 (2009) 3 (july), p. 213-226. | |
| Summary | Political distortions of science can occur on the right and left wings of the political spectrum and are causes of concern, not only to scientists and policy makers but also to physicians, psychiatrists, and mental health professionals seeking empirical support for clinical interventions. Science requires a shared set of operating assumptions, and sound policy making requires objective scientific data. While special interest groups often try to distort scientific findings to achieve single-minded political or economic objectives, distorting findings from one scientific field for personal or political reasons can undermine the entire scientific enterprise. Also troubling is the publicizing of 'research' created solely to support political agendas. Such activities raise the troubling question of whether science as we know it can survive politicization. This paper briefly reviews some historical political efforts to deny or denigrate early scientific findings. It then goes on to describe contemporary attacks on science in what have come to be known as the 'culture wars.' The role of the modern media and the techniques of distorting science in the media are reviewed. This paper concludes with some practical suggestions about the role mental health professionals can play in correcting distortions of science in their personal and professional communities. [ Copies are available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/haworth-journals.asp ] | |
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