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In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed its first resolution recognizing LGBT rights, following which the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report documenting violations of the rights of LGBT people, including hate crimes, criminalization of homosexual activity, and discrimination.
Equaldex is an online publication resource on LGBTQ rights. [1] [2] [3] Subsections of the website are a collaborative knowledge base. [4] [5] [6] Equaldex publishes a ranking of LGBT rights by country and territory. [7] As of September 2022, the head of Equaldex is Dan Leveille. [8]
For example, in 2013 the ILO issued the results of a pilot research on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity; [11] in 2014, UNDP released a discussion paper on transgender health and human rights; also that year, UNICEF published an issues paper on eliminating discrimination against children and parents based on ...
The British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and the South Australian Labor MLC Ian Hunter called for LGBT rights to be put on the agenda of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be held in Perth at the end of October 2011. [10] CHOGM has never even discussed—let alone declared its support for—LGBT equality and human ...
Infobox LGBTQ rights adds an infobox with a location map and a brief overview of a country or territory's LGBT rights. This infobox is intended to replace {{LGBT rights}} and location maps on LGBTQ rights in (country) (or US state) articles. To add to an article, copy and paste the blank version below.
Racism is a concern for many in the Western lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, with members of racial, ethnic, and national minorities reporting having faced discrimination from other LGBT people. [1] [2] [3]
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Stigma and discrimination against LGBTQI+ are highly prevalent in many parts of the world. According to statistics from Human Dignity Trust, 71 countries worldwide continue to criminalize same-sex relationships, 11 jurisdictions impose the death penalty for same-sex relationships, and 15 criminalize the expression of transgender people. [5]