Introducing “Laws on Us”, a global overview of progress and backtracking on LGBTI people’s human rights
Laws on Us is the new publication by ILGA World. It offers a legal overview of legal progress and backtracking affecting LGBTIacronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people. Although this is not the acronym available to describe people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics, it is the most commonly used in United Nations spaces and advocacy. More people across the globe.
ILGA World will publish its first edition on 30 May 2024, following in the footsteps of previous landmark publications by the organisation and the ILGA World Database. The new publication will equally encompass issues of sexual orientationrefers to a person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to - and intimate and sexual relations with - individuals of a different gender or the same gender or more than one gender. More, gender identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. More, gender expressionrefers to how a person presents their gender through physical appearance – including dress, hairstyles, accessories, cosmetics – and mannerisms, speech, behavioural patterns, names and personal references. More, and sex characteristicsa term that refers to physical features relating to sex - including genitalia and other sexual and reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, hormones, and secondary physical features emerging from puberty. More.
From the Pink Book in the 80s to the ILGA World Legal Survey in the 90s, throughout the years of the State-Sponsored Homophobia and the Transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. More Legal Mapping Report, we are now ready for the next chapter of our research.
Watch this video to learn more about the history of the ILGA World research, and how it helped everyone uncover how laws affect the lives of our communities worldwide!
