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Intern Spotlight: A Pride Month Interview with Paul and Dharsan
June 30, 2018| Contributed by Emma Rosner - OutRight Comms Intern
Meet Paul, our new Operations Intern, and Dharsan, our Asia and Pacific Islands Intern! In honor of Pride Month and the start of summer, we wanted to introduce a few of our new interns and learn more about them by getting their takes on Pride, identity, international LGBTIQ human rights, celebrating diversity, and the best queer jams.
Embracing Diversity Beyond the Rainbow: Popvibe’s Pride Bracelet
June 27, 2018| Contributed by Pau Jerusalem - Outright Intern
OutRight Action International is grateful to be Popvibe's beneficiary for the proceeds from the Pride Bracelet, which "holds all the strength, love & colors representing this multi-cultural community."
Intern Spotlight: A Pride Month Interview with Dana
June 26, 2018| Contributed by Emma Rosner - OutRight Comms Intern
Meet Dana, our new Development Intern! In honor of Pride Month and the start of summer, we wanted to introduce a few of our new interns and learn more about them by getting their takes on Pride, identity, international LGBTIQ human rights, celebrating diversity, and the best queer jams
Applications Are Now Closed - Thank You For Applying To Advocacy Week 2018
June 25, 2018| Contributed by OutRight
Applications close for the OutRight global LGBTIQ movement to advocate at the United Nations. Every December, OutRight hosts LGBTIQ activists from around the world in New York for a week of high level meetings and activities around Human Rights Day (December 10th).
What an inspiring week in Seattle!
June 18, 2018| Contributed by OutRight
OutRight was honored to welcome our United Nations expert Siri May, along with UN Human Rights Officer Fabrice Houdart and EnGendeRights Founder Clara Rita Padilla, for a series of events to share their experience fighting for global LGBTIQ human rights.
World Health Organizations Says Being Trans Is Not A Mental Disorder
June 18, 2018| Contributed by Rashima Kwatra - OutRight Communications Officer
Today, the World Health Organization announced the release of the International Classification of Diseases-11. The revision comes 18 years after the last ICD was implemented. In a historic move, hard fought by trans groups and advocates as well as experts and professionals, being trans is no longer considered a mental disorder.
Pride Tees and Apparels That Support LGBTIQ Human Rights Causes
June 4, 2018| Contributed by Paul Jerusalem - Outright Intern
Monochromatic Tees and Apparel for a Colorful Spectrum of Social Causes - We were thrilled to hear about Social Cell Supply Co., a Canadian company which produces apparel and other goods, printed with typographic designs, with the goal of funding and raising awareness about various social issues. At the time of the writing of this feature, these social issues include racial, gender, and sexual equality.
The 2018 United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Goals Primer
May 31, 2018| Contributed by OutRight UN Program
A short primer to help activists working on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression and Sex Characteristics make the most of your experience
Tabletop Gamers Host A #RollWithPride Fundraiser For International Human Rights
May 29, 2018| Contributed by Paul Jerusalem - Outright Intern
For both Paola Harris and Christoff Visscher, their brands were born out of the sense that there was something missing in the tabletop gaming world.
Harris, a fan of Dungeons & Dragons, started her own online store, Paola’s Pixels, because she was unable to find any Dungeons & Dragons merchandise that was “cute and colorful”; the only things that were available were, in her words, “so dark.”
Special UN Event Celebrates Allies For 2018 International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
May 18, 2018| Contributed by MJ Moneymaker - OutRight Digital Communications Manager
LGBTI Core Group and OutRight worked with the Free and Equal Campaign and allies to host the United Nations event "Alliances for Equality."
Special UN Event Celebrates Allies For 2018 International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
May 18, 2018| Contributed by MJ Moneymaker - OutRight Digital Communications Manager
LGBTI Core Group and OutRight worked with the Free and Equal Campaign and allies to host the United Nations event "Alliances for Equality."
Addressing Barriers to Family Violence Protections for LBT People In Sri Lanka
May 10, 2018| Contributed by Grace Poore, Regional Program Coordinator for Asia, OutRight
Subha Wijesiriwardena from Women and Media Collective joined OutRight staff, Rashima Kwatra, M.J. Moneymaker, and Grace Poore for an interview about our recent partnership project that focused on tackling barriers to family violence and domestic violence protections for LGBTI communities. Special thanks to Mikelle Benfield, an intern at OutRight, for transcribing the interview.
Lesbian Day of Visibility: Human Rights Violations Persist
April 26, 2018| Contributed by Rashima Kwatra - OutRight Communications Officer
Issues impacting the lesbian community all around the world are often silenced, unaddressed, and sidelined. In this patriarchal, misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic world, lesbians face double discrimination: first for identifying as women and second for their sexual orientation. Lesbians who express themselves as butch, are gender non-conforming, or present themselves outside of society’s accepted gender constructs, can often face even harsher victimization.
The Earth Day Connection to LGBTIQ Human Rights
April 22, 2018| Contributed by Mikelle Benfield - OutRight Communications Intern
Earth Day, since its inception in 1970, has been a time to celebrate the environment and advocate for its protection. Occasionally, we need protection from Earth’s ecological systems when natural hazards turn into disasters among our communities. Vulnerability, in a disaster context, can be defined as characteristics that influence a person’s ability to respond, cope, recover, and adapt to the impact of a natural hazard. The physical characteristics of a natural hazard are important in creating a disaster, but vulnerability is also a vital component as to why disasters happen. This vulnerability comes from their society and can result in some people finding themselves more vulnerable than others when dealing with a disaster situation.
One Year Since Gay Purge in Chechnya, Perpetrators Remain Unprosecuted
April 10, 2018| Contributed by Rashima Kwatra - OutRight Communications Officer
At the beginning of April 2017, Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper, broke the news that more than 100 men perceived to be gay or bisexual were rounded up, sent to secret detention centers, and tortured in Chechnya. Reports since then have estimated that more than 20 men were murdered or died while in detention and the number of those detained could be as high as 200.