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Proud to see United Nations in Ukraine colleagues marching in KyivPride in solidarity with 6-8,000 community members and allies while agitators threw eggs and excrements at the marchers. A massive police presence kept the marchers safe and for the first time representatives from the city and national government were marching along.
#Pride2019 #LGBTI #PrideMonth #Ukraine
📸: UN Ukraine/Andriy Krepkih
In Lithuania it has improved in the last 10 years. In about 2010 the situation was similar, this year there was hardly any police (there and needed) and only a few random protestors.
Apply before 5 July! United Nations Human Rights is launching a new fellowship for #LGBTI people. This year, the fellowship is open to #trans candidates and will be based at our HQ in Geneva, Switzerland. The Fellowship will run for 7 months.
www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Discrimination/Pages/ToRFellowship.aspx
Great initiative!
Hey guys, you should post this on LinkedIn! Many NGOs, LGBTQIA+ and t people use linkedin as a social media for opportunities 😁
In the eight years since her son came out, Maju Giorgi has turned her fear into action, organizing thousands of mothers throughout the country to combat prejudice and violence 🏳️🌈
#WeLoveAllies #StandUp4HumanRights
Maju Giorgi Turns Fear Into Action
huffpost.com
Maju Giorgi organized thousands of Brazilian mothers to protect children from homophobia.Historic step forward in #Brazil where the Supreme Court has ruled that #homophobia and #transphobia should be treated in the same way as racism under Brazilian law - as a criminal act.
#criminalizaSTF #Écrimesim #StandUp4HumanRights
Brazil Supreme Court rules homophobia a crime
reuters.com
The Brazilian Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that homophobia should be criminal...Lesbian, gay, bi, trans and intersex people with #disabilities can experience twice the stigma, discrimination and isolation as their abled-bodied #LGBTI peers. It's up to each of us to stand up for all of us -- and that includes LGBTI people with disabilities! ❤ if you #standup4humanrights
[Image description: the animated video shows an LGBTI person using a wheelchair, an LGBTI person using a cane, an LGBTI person with a visual impairment and an LGBTI person with a hearing impairment, followed by the copy "LGBTI people with disabilities.]
“Bhutan has never had a pride parade, and never will because it’s not just the queer community who fights for us, it’s everyone in the country.”
#Bhutan #LGBT #StandUp4HumanRights
I Am a Queer Bhutanese, and My Country Is on Its Way to Scrapping Anti-LGBTQ Laws
vice.com
“Bhutan has never had a pride parade, and never will because it’s not just the queer community who fights for us, it’s everyone in the country.”
Hot off the presses! New report from #IESOGI Victor Madrigal-Borloz calls on states to collect data on violence and discrimination against #LGBT people: “States must adequately address this scourge through public policy, access to justice, law reform or administrative actions. In most contexts policymakers are taking decisions in the dark, left only with personal preconceptions and prejudices.” Read the full report: ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/41/45
#StandUp4HumanRights
Great news from #Botswana! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
#LoveIsLove #LoveWins #StandUp4HumanRights #Repeal164UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet welcomes the decision by the High Court of Botswana to decriminalize consensual same-sex relations between adults by striking down relevant provisions of the country’s Penal Code.
"Punishing people based on their sexual orientation has a deeply negative impact that goes far beyond the risk of arrest and imprisonment," Bachelet says. "Criminalization contributes to stigma and gives free rein to discrimination more generally, leading to lesbian, gay, bisexual and, in some cases, transgender people being denied health care, education, employment and housing," she says.
Learn more: http://ow.ly/zxSj50uBnXN
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Join our team! United Nations Human Rights is launching a new fellowship for #LGBTI people. This year, the fellowship is open to #trans candidates and will be based at our HQ in Geneva, Switzerland. The Fellowship will run for 7 months. Learn more & apply: www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Discrimination/Pages/ToRFellowship.aspx
#StandUp4HumanRights
#Rugby royal Sam Stanley wants to make the #sports world more inclusive
via Huffington Post #PrideMonth
Out and Proud – And Competing At The Highest Level
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Rugby royal Sam Stanley defies sports world stereotypes.
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