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Content Type(s): Publication
Region(s): Asia, China, Timor-Leste, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan
… In countries where there are laws addressing domestic violence, redress and services do not adequately encompass LGBTQ survivors. As a result, they are often unable to seek justice …
Content Type(s): Publication
Topic(s): Torture, Violence and Abuse
Region(s): Asia, Philippines, Sri Lanka
… (WMC) in Sri Lanka to address barriers to domestic violence protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) persons. Family violence is the primary source of violence for … violence, where perpetrators tend to be same-sex partners, dating partners, and heterosexual male partners of bisexual women or lesbians coerced into heterosexual marriage. To avoid exposing … police or legal services. This is the case in the Philippines, where being lesbian or gay is not a crime, and in Sri Lanka, where homosexuality and lesbianism are criminalized, adding …
Content Type(s): Publication
Topic(s): Torture, Violence and Abuse
Region(s): Asia, Philippines, Sri Lanka
Summary for Enhancing Domestic Violence Protections For LGBT People in the Philippines and Sri Lanka
Content Type(s): Publication
Topic(s): Torture, Violence and Abuse
Region(s): Asia
… English, Malay, Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano and Sinhala. The researchers uncovered high levels of family violence perpetrated against LBT individuals as well as widespread … While many found strength in knowing that they had survived the violence they were subjected to, the quality of survival was affected – even compromised – by the ubiquity of discourses in … activists and organizations around the world. Fri, 05/06/2016 - 18:56 Outright Team LBT_report.pdf ES0512CC.pdf Report Torture, Violence and Abuse Asia Read the Summary Read the Full Report …