Global Philanthropy Project (GPP) is a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic support to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in the Global South and East.
Leveraging youth to shape a better future, UN announces 17 Young Leaders for SDGs
LGBTIQ youth appointed to two key UN initiatives
Call for submissions: Women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in situations of crisis
The Working Group on discrimination against women and girls will present a thematic report on women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in situations of crisis to the 47th session of the Human Rights Council in June 2021. The report will examine women’s and girls’ SRHR within an overarching framework of reasserting gender equality and countering roll-backs.
South Africa: A breath of fresh air: Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng in the UN house
Best ditch the boxes and labels if you’re hoping to pigeonhole South Africa’s Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng – medical doctor, specialist on sexual and reproductive health, social media influencer, K-drama and kimchi junkie, and now… newly appointed United Nations Commission on Human Rights special rapporteur physical and mental health.
Don't let the pandemic marginalize LGBTIQ people further
Wartime sexual violence a ‘psychological weapon’, sets back cause of peace
Sexual violence is used as a war tactic and a political tool to dehumanize, destabilize and forcibly displace populations across the globe, the UN’s expert on the issue told the Security Council on Friday, pressing countries to adopt a survivor-centred approach that ensures victims will not be forgotten.
The 2020 United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Goals Primer
When Will Sports Stop Policing Femininity?
Call for input to a thematic report: The impact of COVID-19 on the human rights of LGBT persons, communities and/or populations
Call for submissions to the UN on rape as a grave and systematic human rights violation and gender-based violence against women
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Dubravka Šimonović, in her thematic report to be presented to the UN General Assembly in September 2020 will address States’ responsibility to criminalize and prosecute rape as a grave and systematic human rights violation and gender based violence against women, in line with international human rights standards.