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LET'S CREATE THE MOVIE AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA

08/03/2010

Let's create the movie against discrimination, violence, racism, homophobia and xenophobia. >>>

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BEIJING: A HISTORICAL SPEECH

16/02/2010 | ILGA Asia

In Beijing on 13 September 1995 a lesbian caucus member, Palesa Beverley Ditsie, from South Africa, addressed the UN Plenary of the Fourth World Conference on Women about lesbian issues. This was an important event for lesbian visibility and rights. Before Beijing, responding to the urges of NGO’s from all continents, governments at the Preparatory Committee in New York agreed to the inclusion of lesbian issues in the Draft Platform for Action. The struggle in Beijing was about ensuring that human rights of lesbians would be explicitly protected in the final document, but conservative forces were too strong. Even though lesbians were not explicitly protected in the final document, speeches like Ditisie’s were proof of a strong lesbian presence at the conference and a milestone in terms of official recognition of lesbians at world fora. >>>

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GAINING THE RIGHT TO SPEAK WITH OUR OWN VOICE AT THE UN

16/02/2010 | ILGA Asia

In 2006, the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights (RFSL), applied for ECOSOC status at the UN, which was granted in July 2007. Both in January and May of 2007, the Executive Director, Maria Sjödin, together with the President, Sören Juvas, went to New York to defend RFSL’s candidacy. RFSL was also appointed Women’s Secretariat at the ILGA World Conference in March 2006 and their mandate was renewed for two more years at the World Conference in November 2008. >>>

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Call for Participation: Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL): 16 Days Campaign Survey

20/01/2010 | ILGA

The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) was directly in touch with more than 275 organizations in 80 countries during the 16 Days campaign, and has information about many more international and online actions that took place! Now as they process all of this information and begin thinking about the 2010 campaign, CWGL needs to hear from you! To help assess the impact of the 2009 16 Days Campaign, CWGL would greatly appreciate your participation in this short survey. >>>

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Scholarship Fund for Women from Developing Countries

20/01/2010 | ILGA

The Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF) is offering scholarship funds to women from developing countries currently studying in the United States or Canada. The MMMF awards grants of approximetly US$12,000 each; grants are not renewable. Every year, the MMMF also invites the recipients to Washington DC to participate in a three day Awards Program organized in their honour. Deadline for applications: February 18, 2010. >>>

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"Why Women's Reproductive Freedom Ensures Our Survival"

16/01/2010 | ILGA

"Fifteen years ago in Beijing, then first lady, Hillary Clinton, stated firmly, "Women's rights are human rights." Today, after eight years of non-existent U.S. support for women's reproductive rights, Secretary of State Clinton is reviving women's hopes around the globe by affirming the Obama Administration's support for the International Conference on Population and Development Action Plan..." >>>

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Global Partnerships Internship – Spring 2010

15/01/2010 | ILGA

Women Thrive Worldwide, created in 1998, advocates with the U.S. government for international economic and human right policies that support women worldwide in ending poverty in their lives, communities and nations. The organization pushes to generate dynamic policy approaches that can change the way U.S. international assistance and trade programs operate in order to be most beneficial in increasing economic opportunities for poor women worldwide. The Department of Global Partnerships is responsible for: creating and maintaining relationships with southern women’s organizations; monitoring and tracking U.S. policies in the field; coordinating visits from southern leaders to speak at policy-relevant venues among many other tasks. Time Commitment: FT or PT schedule available (at least 20 hours/wk required); Fall commitment (January 2010 – May 2010) >>>

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"Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance"

15/01/2010 | ILGA

This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people’s sexual lives, access to citizenship, and struggles for livelihood. Despite the industry’s persistent insistence on viewing sexuality as basically outside the realm of economic modernization and anti-poverty programs, this volume brings to the fore heterosexual bias within macroeconomic and human rights development frameworks. >>>

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INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATION

INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATION

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