This special issue on the impacts of COVID-19 on LGBTQ+ health and well-being reports findings from nine articles with varied study designs, including data from multiple countries and all segments of LGBTQ+ communities.
Catholic Church leaders affirm that homosexuality is sin
Peru: Equal marriage: chronology of the struggle for a right that is not yet recognized
Peru: Constitutional Court to hold private debate on marriage
Peru: Call to rule on the registration of equal marriage
UN: International Day of the Girl: ‘Be bold in your demands’, urges UN deputy chief
IDG 2020: Working Group on Girls Town Hall
For International Day of the Girl, the Working Group on Girls is hosting a town hall meeting on Friday, October 9th, where girl activists, gender equity thought leaders, and United Nations representatives from around the world, come together to discuss progress and gaps around girls rights and articulate the possibilities for realizing gender equality for all girls.
Injectable PrEP offers superior efficacy to oral PrEP in clinical trial
Panorama of the legal recognition of gender identity in the Americas
The American continent is characterized by being the most violent region towards people with Non-normative gender identities in the world. These cycles of violence, present in all areas of life of trans people, are intermingled with high levels of discrimination and stigmatization, resulting in lack of access to their civil, political, economic, social rights, cultural and environmental.
Out of the Margins
UN: Report on conversion therapy
The term “therapy”, derived from the Greek, denotes “healing”. However, practices of “conversion therapy” are the very opposite: they are deeply harmful interventions that rely on the medically false idea that LGBT and other gender diverse persons are sick, inflicting severe pain and suffering, and resulting in long-lasting psychological and physical damage.