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The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA [2]) is a LGBTQ+ rights organization.. It participates in a multitude of agendas within the United Nations, such as creating visibility for LGBTQ+ issues by conducting advocacy and outreach at the Human Rights Council, working with members to help their government improve LGBTI rights, ensuring LGBTI members are not ...
VSG left ILGA in April 1995 and in 1998 dissolved itself. ILGA applied to have its consultative status reinstated in 2000, [4] but on 30 April 2002 the United Nations' Economic & Social Council voted 29–17 not to grant this application, [5] "based on concerns raised about its member organizations or subsidiaries that promoted or condoned ...
ILGA-Europe is the European region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. It is an advocacy group promoting the interests of lesbian , gay , bisexual , trans and intersex ( LGBTI ) people, at the European level.
Sexual relations between persons of the same sex shall be punished with imprisonment from 1 to 5 years. Act stipulated in paragraph 1, committed against a minor, against a person unable to defend himself or to express his will, or by coercion, shall be punished with imprisonment from 2 to 7 years.
According to a 2014 poll by the ILGA, 18% of Tunisian people were in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage, with 61% opposed. [72] During a television interview in February 2012, Minister for Human Rights Samir Dilou stated that "freedom of speech has its limits", homosexuality is "a perversion", and gay people needed to be "treated medically ...
1 During World War II, Nazi Germany annexed or occupied territory, extending Germany's laws against same-sex sexual intercourse. Age of consent was previously equalized for same-sex couples in the following countries or territories before the war: Belluno ( legal in 1890 ), Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol ( legal in 1890 ), Friuli-Venezia Giulia ...
In May 2019, the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill (HB246) with 46 Democratic co-sponsors (passing the House by 60 votes to 42 and the Senate by 37 votes to 17) to implement an LGBT curriculum that would require public schools to educate students on contributions made by the LGBT community to Illinois and United States history.
In 2014, Amnesty International released a report titled The state decides who I am: Lack of Legal Gender Recognition For Transgender People in Europe. [18] The report criticized European countries for legal gender recognition laws that were based on stereotypical gender norms and violated rights such as the right to private and family life, recognition before the law, the highest attainable ...