ARC International shares articles, books, and chapter in books from our staff.
- The Mandate of the SOGI Independent Expert: The compelling case for its renewal in 2019. (By Arvind Narrain)
- Right to love. Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India: A transformative constitution and the rights of LGBT persons. (Published by Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, India, and edited by Arvind Narrain)
- Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope. (by Kim Vance, Arvind Narrain et al.)
- Negation, Acknowledgement and taking forward the struggle for LGBT rights: The Third Report of the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. (By Arvind Narrain and Kim Vance)
- The Mandate of the UN Independent Expert on SOGI: What has been achieved, what can we expect and how can it be useful? (By Arvind Narrain)
- The Intersection of Death Penalty with LGBTI Rights at the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council. (By Arvind Narrain)
- “The Yogyakarta Principles on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Six Conceptual Advances enabled by the Principles”. (By Arvind Narrain)
- “A Success in 2016: The First UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity“. (By Arvind Narrain and Kim Vance)
- “The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria: An Intersectional Analysis of its Jurisprudence on Disappearances, Sexual Violence and Genocide” seeks how the work of the Commission intersects with concerns around sexual violence, LGBT inclusion and the protection of the family resolution. (By Arvind Narrain)
- “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: A Necessary Conceptual Framework for Advancing Rights?” seeks to trace out the relatively recent history of the use of this language in international law and then seek to understand what this conceptual framework enables. (By Arvind Narrain)
- “The Second UN Report on discrimination and violence based on SOGI: Conceptual advances, political polarizations and the way forward”, analyses the the second Report by the OHCHR as a significant milestone within the UN system. (By Arvind Narrain)
- “Gender-motivated killings of women on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity” reports from a day-long expert group meeting convened by United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo. (By Kim Vance)
Download the report : Gender Motivated Killings
- “Raising our Voices: Opening Global Spaces for Sexual and Gender Minorities” explores the visibility and influence of sexual and gender minorities within spaces of global politics and civil society mobilization, and “lessons learned” from the struggle. (By Kim Vance)
Read more here: Global Democracy paper: Raising our Voices