Coalition of African Lesbians & African Men for Sexual Health and Rights
A civil society report
Today, we face a major human rights crisis globally, and particularly in Africa, and one that is largely not recognised by governments. People who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, or who engage in same-sex sexual relations (regardless of how they identify), or who are gender non-conforming, including people who identify and express as transgender and transdiverse, as well as intersex individuals live in fear and face violence perpetrated by both state and non-state actors on an everyday basis. This violence takes the form of torture, murder, rape, stigma and discrimination.
This report is the result of a collective effort by North, West, East, Central and Southern African organisations and coalitions. The information presented here was obtained through interviews, questionnaires completed by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transdiverse/transgender and intersex (LGBTI) human rights defenders and organisations, and documentation collected and collated since December 2011. The report highlights a range of rights violations and proposes measures that both governments and the United Nations can and should take to address violations of the rights of LGBTI individuals in Africa, and to ensure the protection and fulfilment of their human rights.
ARC International
Assessing sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex activism and key developments at the UN from 2003 to 2014.
OHCHR Report, May 2015
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Recent developments
III. Applicable international standards and obligations
IV. Homophobic and transphobic violence
V. Discrimination
VI. Conclusions and recommendations
Public Research Associates
While U.S. Christian Right leaders made headlines when international pressure forced them to retract support for Uganda’s notorious Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, a new report by Political Research Associates shows that U.S. Christian Right groups continue to build organizational strength and campaign to inscribe homophobia and anti-abortion politics in the constitutions and laws of African countries in the years since.
The U.S. Christian Right’s most recent efforts are documented in the new report Colonizing African Values: How the U.S. Christian Right is Transforming Politics in Africa.
The report authored by Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma, an Anglican priest originally from Zambia, investigates the Pat Robertson-founded American Center for Law and Justice, the Mormon-led Family Watch International, and the Roman Catholic Human Life International, as well as a network of Christian dominionists known as the Transformation Movement or New Apostolic Reformation. The report details ACLJ’s efforts to influence the constitution-writing process in Zimbabwe and Kenya, and the anti-LGBT and anti-reproductive justice activities of the other groups in such countries as Uganda, Malawi and Zambia.
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Part of the Information Series on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Discriminatory attitudes, laws and practices, combined with inadequate legal protections, expose lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and intersex people of all ages and in all regions of the world to egregious violations of their human rights. The legal obligations of States to safeguard the human rights of LGBT and intersex people are well established in international human rights law.
Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) denounces and wholly condemns discrimination, violence, and social exclusion on the basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI), ubiquitously directed toward Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning and Intersex (LGBTQI) individuals, with emphasis on those forms of discrimination, violence, and social exclusion endorsed or authorized by means of radicalized or extremist misinterpretations of faith and/or culture, as well as theo-political state and non-state agendas.
Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE)
April, 2016, Ipas
This guide is a resource for advocates, trainers, project managers and technical advisors who design programs and workshops to engage police on abortion issues. Drawing on the work of Ipas and other organizations, it offers practical strategies for partnering with police to address stigmatized issues and promote public health, with a specific focus on abortion. It can be used both in settings where abortion is legal and accessible and in settings where it is highly restricted.
Surfacing: Selected Papers on Religious Fundamentalisms and Their Impact on Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), 2008
INTRODUCTION
- Convergences on religious exceptionalism: A synthesis of the ARROW symposium on religious fundamentalisms on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Michael L. Tan
THE PAPERS
- The troubled contexts of human dignity: Women’s engagements with patriarchy, community and conflict in South Asia. Kalpana Kannabiran
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Religious fundamentalisms in India: The impact of Hindu fundamentalisms on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Jashodara Dasgupta
Religious fundamentalisms in Muslim societies: The impact of the religious right on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Zaitun Mohamed Kasim
Roman Catholic conservatism and fundamentalism in the Philippines and their disparate impact on women. Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan
CONCLUSION
- Challenging religious fundamentalisms: Ways forward. Rashidah Abdullah
This report from the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) was a product of a 2009 strategic dialogue, which was a collaborative effort between the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD IC) and CWGL to bring together women working specifically on defenders’ rights.
The meeting was an opportunity to develop strategies and tactics that would be undertaken by coalition members and then introduced to the larger human rights community. This strategic conversation was a continuation of a CWGL initiative started in the 1990s to deepen feminist strategies around women’s rights by bringing together activists, academics, and policy makers to think and plan purposefully with regard to movement challenges and urgent concerns.
The strategic conversation on Addressing Gaps in the Defense of Women Human Rights Defenders
was convened with the knowledge that more than a decade after the recognition of women’s rights as human rights at the 1993 UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, Austria and subsequently at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, there continue to be many gaps in the integration of women’s concerns into the international human rights agenda.
