About Urgency Required

Urgency Required – Gay and Lesbian Rights are Human Rights is a publication by Hivos and the worldwide network of Hivos partner organisations and is edited by Ireen Dubel and André Hielkema. The book focuses on urgent issues of gay and lesbian liberation, taking a historical perspective and reflecting worldwide geographic diversity.

Editor André Hielkema

André Hielkema MA (1958) is a cultural historian.Since 1986 he is Secretary of the Socrates Foundation, which creates (and attends to) special chairs at Dutch universities about burning social issues (in the fields of life sciences, technological progress, environment and sustainability etc.) with which modern humanism has to deal. Nowadays almost all Dutch universities have such a special humanist chair founded by the Socrates Foundation.

Editor Ireen Dubel

Ireen Dubel MA (1956) is a human geographer. Since 2005 she is Programme Manager Gender, Women and Development at Hivos, the Humanist Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries, in the Netherlands. In this capacity she is responsible for policy development, programme implementation and quality control of Hivos financial and political support to women’s organisations and gender equality initiatives in developing countries.