It’s like the rite of passage into the LGBTQ+ experience, conversion therapy. According to the Human Rights Commission, conversion therapy, sometimes known as “reparative therapy,” is a range of dangerous and discredited practices that falsely claim to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. On Wednesday 8th July 2020, A United Nations…
On Friday, 17th April 2020, The UN (United Nations) advised countries to protect LGBT+ people against discrimination when seeking health care during the pandemic. In a statement released on the same day, The UN said that LGBTQ+ people may be particularly vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic; many of whom are homeless, live with compromised immune…
The United Nations General Assembly organised an LGBTI high level event on “Violence Against LGBTI individuals: Extrajudicial, Summary Or Arbitrary Executions.” The historic event saw the Secretary-General of the United Nations give his first speech on LGBTIQ issues in his tenure. Watch below In her remarks, UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said, “There should be…
A new report released today by the Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF) and OutRight Action International in collaboration with the Global Platform to Fast Track the Human Rights and HIV Responses with Gay and Bisexual Men argues for a global health and development approach that is inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people. Released…
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