LGBTQIA+ AND THIRD GENDER CULTURES
GLOBAL CULTURES AND LGBTQIA+
Male, Female, And Muxes: Places Where A Third Gender Is Accepted
For many cultures, the idea of non-binary genders — someone who doesn’t identify strictly male or female —has been a part of their culture for generations.
LGBTQIA+ AND GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS
GLOBAL LEGISLATION ON LGBTQIA+
The Changing Landscape of Global LGBTQ+ Rights
Although LGBTQ+ people in every region of the world face marginalization and repression, their human rights have steadily advanced. The Biden administration has an opportunity to further promote LGBTQ+ rights by asserting them as a foreign policy priority.
https://www.cfr.org/article/changing-landscape-global-lgbtq-rights
Combatting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
United Nations Human Rights
IGLYO
IGLYO is a youth development and leadership organization building LGBTQI youth activists, ensuring LGBTQI young people are present and heard and making schools safe, inclusive and supportive of LGBTQI learners.
The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer & Intersex Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO) is an international LGBTQI organisation that was created in 1984 as a reaction to the need for better cooperation among regional, local and national LGBTQI youth and student organisations.
IGLYO is a membership-based umbrella organisation that aims to empower and enable its members to ensure representation of LGBTQI youth and student issues. IGLYO advocates on behalf of members to international bodies, institutions and other organisations.
IGLYO is led by an elected Executive Board who are mandated by the General Assembly, which is the highest decision making body of the organisation. Executive board members serve for a two-year mandate. The Executive Board is supported by a secretariat in Brussels, Belgium and led by two co-chairs.
IGLYO has more than 95 member organisations in more than 45 countries and is celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2019.
International Human Rights Defense Act H.R. 1201; S. 424
The International Human Rights Defense Act of 2015 would build an unprecedented framework into U.S. diplomacy to protect LGBTQ rights worldwide.
https://www.hrc.org/resources/international-human-rights-defense-act
The International Human Rights Framework and LGBTI People
Human rights principles, norms and standards lie at the heart of efforts to end discrimination against LGBTI people. This does not mean that new ‘LGBTI rights’ are being established that will apply only to LGBTI people. On the contrary, international human rights law makes it clear all people, including LGBTI people, must be protected against discrimination.
An international human rights framework has developed over time which includes human rights declarations, treaties, bodies and mechanisms. While non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or sex characteristics is not explicitly referred to in any international human rights treaty, this is not at all required in order for it to be clear that discrimination on these grounds is prohibited. States are required to protect LGBTI people from being discriminated against and to take specific steps in response if it does happen. Indeed, there is an ever-growing body of international human rights law in this area.
https://www.pgaction.org/inclusion/background/framework.html
The State of LGBT Human Rights Worldwide
Across the globe, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people (LGBT) continue to face endemic violence, legal discrimination, and other human rights violations on account of their sexual orientation or gender identity. As we move from International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia to Pride month in the United States, Amnesty International stands with everyone working to guarantee the fundamental human rights of all persons, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
First some good news: the past twelve months have seen great victories for the legal recognition of same-sex couples, as equal marriage rights went into effect in Scotland, Luxembourg, nineteen U.S. states, and the Mexican state of Coahuila, and as Chile and Croatia approved same-sex civil unions legislation. Newly passed marriage equality laws in Slovenia and Finland will take effect at a later date. Irish voters now have the opportunity to make their country the first in the world to approve same-sex marriage rights at the ballot box. Amnesty urges all Irish voters to recognize the right of adults to enter into consensual marriage as is enshrined in international human rights standards.
https://www.amnestyusa.org/the-state-of-lgbt-rights-worldwide/
Map of Countries that Criminalize LGBT People
The map below provides an overview of the countries across the world where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are sadly criminalised:
https://www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-criminalisation/?type_filter=crim_lgbt
