Atkins, who has advanced groundbreaking legislation on health care, LGBT rights and housing, is described by her colleagues as kind, measured and compassionate but steadfast in her commitment to fighting for people and ideas she believes in.
Labour has pushed back a planned statement on the status of transgender people in the party until after May’s local elections – after threats of mass resignations from anti-transgender campaigners.
On the sidelines of CSW 62, participants considered ways to enhance integration, linkages and synergies between SDG targets 3.4 (noncommunicable diseases) and 5.6 (sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights).
Last month, news broke that relief workers for international charitable consortium Oxfam hired young women in Haiti and Chad to serve as sex workers and demanded sex in exchange for aid.
We believe that all human rights should not be exclusively granted to only a privileged few and not be granted to LGBTQIA+ members of the society on the shallow basis of their SOGIE.
