Forcing female athletes to regulate testosterone could breach international human rights rules, according to the United Nation’s top human rights group in a rare foray into sports amid an escalating row over intersex and transgender competitors.
Canada to support lesbian, bisexual and trans women’s economic empowerment
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is proud to welcome Global Affairs Canada as a new partner to the Being LGBTI in Asia and the Pacific programme, with the signing of an agreement to support work on economic empowerment of lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LBT) women in the Philippines.
Kenya: These LGBT refugees came to Kenya seeking freedom. Now they say they’ve been imprisoned and abused.
Report on the Holy See at the United Nations
Despite not having an official vote, with fully functioning missions (or staffed offices) at the UN sites in Geneva and New York, it does not have an official vote, yet it exerts remarkable power as it influences policy development, negotiation positions and even the language used by other UN members.
Dissident Catholics Assail Vatican Role at UN
UN SOGI Expert Urges End to Criminalization of Same Sex Relations by 2030
UNAIDS: Artificial intelligence, big data and the HIV response
LGBTI Inclusion in Development Policy and Agenda 2030
In late 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda, a resolution containing the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will guide international development activities during the next decade. The goals offer an opportunity for LGBTI advocates to seek inclusion in the international development agenda and in national policies and programs.
LGBTI Activists Call for Social and Legal Reforms on Zero Discrimination Day
In order to end discrimination and achieve broad acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people across South Asia, coordinated and strategic advocacy efforts to advance both social and legal reforms are needed, said participants at a global forum in Kathmandu this week.