NEW YORK (31 October 2022) – Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse (LGBT) persons are facg differentiated and disproportnate impact armed nflict suatns, a UN human rights expert told the General Assembly.
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GAY RIGHTS
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This support might clu tablishg bt practic for documentg and rpondg to homophobic vlence or supportg transgenr people to get documentatn that match their genr inty. ” Notably the Uned Stat natnal actn plan explicly mentns tersex dividuals alongsi attentn to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr and dividuals whose meangful participatn should be sought for executg WPS policy.
While often seen as homogeno, this muny clus a wi range of people wh very different a recent panel at the London School of Enomics’ (LSE) Centre for Women, Peace and Secury, Henri Myrtten, head of genr and peacebuildg at Internatnal Alert, reflected on how this plexy played out his rearch Colombia: “In the morng we would meet wh lbian and gay upper-middle-class lawyers their 40s and 50s [and] of European scent. As Myrtten explaed the LSE panel, “It is important to exame how homophobia, biphobia, [and] transphobia are such a potent mobilizg force across different iologi, om far-left groups like Maoist guerillas… to far-right Nazi groups [and] extremists of all major world religns.
GAY PEACE SIGN
People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully. * lgbt peace *
NEW YORK (31 October 2022) – Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse (LGBT) persons are facg differentiated and disproportnate impact armed nflict suatns, a UN human rights expert told the General Assembly. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer) perspectiv peacebuildg unsettle the assumptns about what is the “rrect” or “normal” sexual orientatn, genr inty, or fay stcture.
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * lgbt peace *
Perds of post-nflict transn may rult backlash agast morized sexual orientatns or genr inti along wh creased homophobia (Serrano-Amaya 2018). Homophobia is also a means of shorg up “tradnal” patriarchal mascule norms (Slootmaeckers 2019). Scholars who rearch sexualy have also examed how homophobia wh society chang shape prr to and after nflict s such as The Troubl Northern Ireland (Duggan 2012; Ashe 2018).
In her rearch about homophobia durg and after The Troubl, Marian Duggan wr about how sexual mori may be pecially vulnerable to victimizatn due to the way they are nstcted society as “acceptable” targets of this vlence. For example, trans women are at risk of pound vlence as a rult of the tersectn of homophobia, enomic secury, and sexual harassment they are likely to face as documented rearch wh trans women Lebanon (HRW 2019).
Narrow and lonial ameworks of sexualy uphold the Wt as a place where LGBTQ muni exist and the Global South as a space where LGBTQ people only experience homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic vlence. Queerg nflict: Examg lbian and gay experienc of homophobia Northern Ireland.