III.L.4  DECLARATION OF MONTREAL ON LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER HUMAN RIGHTS (29 July 2006)

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender

An International LGBT Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Thoreson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Lgbt Rights ◽  
Education Access ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Lgbt Movement

As lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) advocates around the globe have fought to gain rights and recognition, their shared endeavors and coordinated activism have given rise to an international LGBT movement. Over the past century, advocates around the world have recognized common aims and collaborated in formal and informal ways to advance the broader cause of sexual equality worldwide. Advocates in different contexts have often connected their struggles, borrowing concepts and strategies from one another and campaigning together in regional and international forums. In doing so, they have pressed for goals as diverse as the decriminalization of sexual activity; recognition of same-sex partnerships and rainbow families; bodily autonomy and recognition for transgender and intersex people; nondiscrimination protections; and acceptance by families, faith communities, and the public at large. At times, the international LGBT movement—or, to be more accurate, LGBT movements—have used tactics as diverse as public education, lobbying and legislative campaigns, litigation, and direct action to achieve their aims. The result has been a gradual shift toward recognizing LGBT rights globally, with these rights gaining traction in formal law and policy as well as in public opinion and the agendas of activists working for human rights and social justice. The movement’s aims have also broadened, being attentive to new issues and drawing common cause with other campaigns for bodily autonomy and equal rights. At the same time, gains have triggered ferocious backlash, both against LGBT rights and against broader efforts to promote comprehensive sexuality education, access to abortion, the decriminalization of sex work, and other sexual rights. Understanding this advocacy requires consideration of important milestones in global LGBT organizing; how LGBT rights have been taken up as human rights by domestic, regional, and international bodies; and some of the main challenges that LGBT advocates have faced in contexts around the globe.

scholarly journals Malaysian Sikh Youths’ Perception of Diverse Sexual Identities

2020 ◽  
pp. 097639962095628
Author(s):  
Charanjit Kaur ◽  
Ashwinder Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
The World ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Violent Attack ◽  
Liberal Perspective

Malaysia is well known to the world audience as a multicultural nation and a country dominated by religious beliefs, including religions such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism. However, over the years, Malaysia has been doing its rounds in the papers for its strict rules over the denial of human rights for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community. In 2015, Malaysia’s ex–Prime Minister Najib Razak openly declared his take on the LGBT community by equating them to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and claiming that both are ‘enemies of Islam’. Whereas Islamic religious authorities have made clear their stance on LGBT communities, the Malaysian Consultative Council on Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST) has taken a much-blanketed approach on the matter. The group is against any violent attack against, harassment or intimidation of and threat to the LGBT community, but the very essence of this stand is oxymoronic, as they have not done anything to prevent such incidents from taking place either. Sikhism has a liberal perspective on acceptance, regarding aspects such as gender, race, ethnicity and age, to name a few, that one would interpret it is an LGBT-friendly religion. Hence, this article is a humble attempt at understanding the Malaysian Sikh youths’ perspectives on the ever-growing branches of sexual identity. This article will add to the literature on Sikhs’ attitudes towards homosexuality, especially in Southeast Asia.

scholarly journals Reframing LGBT rights advocacy in the context of the rule of law backsliding

Intersections ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-103
Author(s):  
Barbara Grabowska-Moroz ◽  
Anna Wójcik
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Electoral Campaigns ◽  
Civil Lawsuits ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Constitutional Tribunal ◽  
Lgbt People

Adopting the methods of institutional analysis and case law analysis, the paper answers how specific elements of rule of law backsliding impact advocacy for minorities’ rights’ recognition. The phenomenon is analysed in the case of Poland, a state that since 2015 has been experiencing directed erosion on rule of law standards. Between 2018 and 2020, governmental leaders in Poland targeted lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the context of electoral campaigns. The paper discusses long-term legal, political, and social factors contributing to creating an environment where such anti-LGBT campaigns are possible. It further demonstrates that specific elements of rule of law backsliding, such as politically subordinating the Constitutional Tribunal and the office of the Prosecutor General, enable authorities to apply discriminatory legal instruments to limit the targeted minority’s rights and also make resistance to it with legal means more complex. Against this backdrop, the paper argues that human rights defenders’ immediate responses—private civil lawsuits, artistic projects, and monitoring of discriminatory actions of the authorities—were key for drawing domestic and international attention to anti-LGBT campaigns, which later led to the European Union’s institutions concrete actions and an independent Commissioner for Human Rights’ legal actions. Cumulatively, these actions contributed to reversing elements of the anti-LGBT campaign in Poland.

scholarly journals Tinjauan Hukum Internasional HAM dan Hukum Islam terhadap LGBT Perspektif Human Dignity Mashood A. Baderin

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Abu Dzarrin Al-Hamidy
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
The Universe

<p>This article deals with the issue of homosexuality from the perspective of human rights international law and Islamic law, particularly in the view of Mashood Baderin. The result of understanding towards human rights international law as well as towards Islamic law as the blessings for the universe places human beings in the most respected position. However, there emerge the phenomenon of non-mainstream sexual orientation, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT). In the perspective of Mashood Baderin, who portrays human rights international law and Islamic law on the principles of equality and justice, these LGBTs have their rights, as they are also human beings that should be respected due to their human dignity. It is inhumane to discriminate and condemn them. They should receive proportional treatment from the state so that their civil rights are guaranteed. However, with regard to their sexual orientation Islamic law prohibits the same sex marriage or other forbidden sexual relations</p>

Bayev and Others v. Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 194 ◽  
pp. 173-225
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Sexual Relations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Health Rights

173Human rights — Freedom of expression — Prohibition of discrimination — Sexual orientation — Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues — Applicants gay rights activists — Applicants fined for administrative offence in Russia of public activities aimed at promotion of homosexuality among minors — Existence of legislative ban in Russia on promotion of homosexuality or non-traditional sexual relations among minors — Whether Russian legislative provisions compatible with European Convention on Human Rights, 1950 — Whether legislative provisions violating applicants’ rights to freedom of expression — Whether interference with exercise of freedom of expression — Whether interference justified — Public morals — Public health — Rights of others — Whether legislative ban discriminatory — Whether respondent State violating Article 10, and Article 14 taken in conjunction with Article 10, of the European Convention on Human Rights, 1950

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