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Invitation

We are thrilled to invite you to join us in the webinar “Analysing the work of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria from a SOGIESC lens”.
This webinar aims to explore how the COI reports have identified the ways on which people’s human rights have been violated because of their gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
The webinar will be a dialogue between two wonderful panelists:
Arvind Narrain (ARC International, and author of the Report that analises the work of the COI from a SOGIESC lens) and Mohamad Altasseh (a Syrian activist involved with queer communities in Lebanon, Turkey and Canada).
The webinar will be chaired by Kim Vance Mubanga (Egale Canada).
Please join us on December 17, at 15 hs GMT, through this link:
 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84235027068?pwd=YWt5Snp4aEFKZ3BRN2dBU2pEM0pLdz09

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Publications Special Procedures 

A report on the #RenewIESOGI process is here

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In July 2019, our communities won a historic victory with the successful renewal of the mandate of the Independent Expert on violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity: a new report by ARC International, ILGA World and ISHR explains how the process played out. Reading these pages will allow you to follow the steps in the process that led the Human Rights Council to #RenewIESOGI. Human rights defenders around the world advocated for the adoption of the resolution.
In the end, 27 States voted in favour of the renewal of the mandate with 52 States from every region of the world co-sponsoring the resolution. These record-high numbers signal a shift: it is reassuring to witness that the international community is becoming both more aware and less tolerant of violence and discrimination on the basis of SOGI!

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Articles Special Procedures 

The Mandate of the SOGI IE: The compelling case for its renewal in 2019

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This article by Arvind Narrain makes the case for why the mandate of the Independent Expert on SOGI must be renewed based on an analysis of the work of the Independent Expert in three areas, namely country visits, sending letters of allegation to individual countries and producing thematic reports on SOGI issues. The analysis of these three areas of work reveals that the Independent Expert on SOGI has become a vital element in the defence of the rights of the LGBT community worldwide and a failure to renew the mandate would be a huge setback to the LGBTI struggle.

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The repeal of #Section377 in India: A transformative constitution and the rights of LGBT persons

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The decision in Navtej Singh Johar v Union of India, which read down Section377 of the Indian Penal Code on 6th of September 2018 marked a historic victory for a vibrant and vociferous LGBT movement, which for over 17 years had been demanding the repeal of Section 377 of the IPC. The decision itself built upon a history of struggle carried out relentlessly across the country which involved pride marches, protests, demonstrations as well as courageous individual acts of LGBT persons coming out in their workplaces, families as well as in the media.

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Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope

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A New anthology from the Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study entitled “Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope” will be released shortly. The book is an outcome of a  five-year international collaboration among partners that share a common legacy of British colonial laws that criminalise same-sex intimacy and gender identity/expression. The project sought to facilitate learning from each other and to create outcomes that would advance knowledge and social justice. The project was unique, combining research and writing with participatory documentary video  lm-making. This visionary politics infuses the pages of the anthology.
Both Arvind Narrain and Kim Vance have chapters in the book.

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