Topics Urgency Required
Human rights NGOs have to think more strategically
Do NGOs and other civic actors undertake the most effective measures to hold governments accountable to their international obligations to protect human rights, and in particular to protect vulnerable populations? Jeff Handmaker, ISS lecturer and member of the Hivos/ISS Civil Society Building Knowledge Programme team, explores this question in the book ''Advocating for Accountability, civic-state interactions to Protect Refugees in South Africa". The work of human rights organizations is...
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The book Urgency Required focuses on urgent issues of gay and lesbian liberation, taking a historical perspective and reflecting worldwide geographic diversity. Employing the term ‘LGBT-persons’, the acronym used for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, it explores concepts and strategies for taking steps towards decriminalization and equal rights and treatment regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.
Urgency Required Out Now
Urgency Required focuses on urgent issues of gay and lesbian liberation, taking a historical perspective and reflecting worldwide geographic diversity. Employing the term ‘LGBT-persons’, the acronym used for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, it explores concepts and strategies for taking steps towards decriminalization and equal rights and treatment regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.
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 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.
Chapter 6 - Strategies
Part six discusses strategies for furthering gay and lesbian rights and equality. First, strategies in development cooperation, particularly those of Hivos, the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries, and in education. Subsequently, the strategies of the actual formulation of gay and lesbian rights in the Declaration of Montreal and in the Yogyakarta Principles are discussed.Chapter 5 - Latin America
In part five of the book attention is paid to developments in Latin America. You will also find a number of self-portraits of LGBT persons. They aremostly gay and lesbian activists whose organisations are supported by Hivos. Both the self-portraits and the articles show that the struggle is beginning to move, and that concrete progress in Latin America has been made. In Latin America the gay and lesbian struggle has moved from decriminalization to equal treatment; even the right to adopt chi...Chapter 4 - Asia
In part four of the book attention is paid to developments in Asia. You will also find a number of self-portraits of LGBT persons. They aremostly gay and lesbian activists whose organisations are supported by Hivos. Both the self-portraits and the articles show that the struggle is beginning to move, and that concrete progress in India has been made.Chapter 3 - Africa
Part three discusses Africa. There, a visible gay and lesbian movement opens up, the youngest in the world and one that needs a lot of support, as illustrated by the articles about Cameroon and Kenya. At the same time, South Africa was the first country in the world toprohibit discrimination based on sexual sex, gender and sexual orientation in its constitution.Chapter 2 - Concepts
This book speaks not only about gays and lesbians, but also about ‘LGBT persons’ - the acronym for ‘Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender’. (1) This has become the accepted international acronym used within social movements of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites,transsexuals and all other transgender individuals.Chapter 1 - The Netherlands
It is commonly known that the Netherlands was the first country to recognize marriage among same-sex couples in 2001. Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway and Sweden followed, as did the American states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and Maine. It is only in these countries and states that gays and lesbians have virtually the same rights as heterosexuals.Letter from the Editors
Dear readers, We have the pleasure to present to you the publication Urgency Required – Gay and Lesbian Rights are Human Rights. The book focuses on urgent issues of gay and lesbian liberation, taking a historical perspective and reflecting worldwide geographic diversity. Employing the term ‘LGBT’-persons, the acronym used for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, it explores concepts and strategies for taking steps towards decriminalization and equal rights and treatment regarding sexual o...
Lesbian Festival Nijmegen 2010
'Live your dreams,'of 'Maak je dromen waar.' Dat is de tweede editie van het Lesbian Festival 2010 van 15 tot en met 17 januari in Nijmegen. Het festival wordt georganiseerd door COC Nijmegen en is bedoeld voorlesbiënnes, biseksuele vrouwen en transgenders. Het doel? Door middel van workshops, debatten, optredens en andere ontmoetingen aan een creatieve en ontspannen sfeer bij te dragen, om zo de acceptatie van- en het respect voor lesbiennes, biseksuele vrouwen en transgenders te vergroten....