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Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Conversion Practices
Region(s): Sub-Saharan Africa
… Let's Change the Narrative for a More Inclusive Society Submitted by hazelcomms on Wed, 10/12/2022 - … 2019 as its Africa Program Officer working on a groundbreaking project tackling the prevalence of so-called conversion therapy. Such practices, which aim to change, suppress or divert sexual … for LGBTIQ equality. At their core, these practices speak to just how unaccepted, feared and hated LGBTIQ people are, and their prevalence and ferocity are symptomatic of the scale of …
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Philanthropy
Region(s): United Nations
… time at Outright International. We bring around 40 activists - or Envoys as we call them - to New York from across the world for several days of advocacy training, followed by a week of … when a survivor of “conversion therapy”, Reverend Nokuthula Dhladhla from South Africa, shared her harrowing experience of being prayed for, beaten and sexually assaulted all in an effort to rid her of the “demon” of her same-sex attraction. Inspiringly, she told the room that as a result of …
Content Type(s): Publication
Topic(s): Legal Discrimination
Region(s): Iraq, Southwest Asia and North Africa
Content Type(s): Publication
Topic(s): Human Rights, Law & Policy
Region(s): Southwest Asia and North Africa
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 …