The first Sarajevo Queer Festival took place between 24 and 28 September 2008. Organized by a non-governmental organization called Udruženje Q, the festival of art and culture included exhibitions, performances, public discussions and films. However, in the run-up to the festival, some politicians and certain parts of the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina unleashed a homophobic campaign. The threats issued against the organizers of the festival culminated and materialized on 24 September, during the opening ceremony.
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The United Nations is a large and complex set of institutions. It has three great mandates: peace and security, development and human rights. On the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI) the UN is divided. In the political bodies many States oppose recognition, but the ground is shifting, if slowly, underneath their feet. In the meantime progress has been occurring in two other parts of the UN system – the treaty bodies and the special procedures.
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Sexual rights are an important battlefield in our fight against poverty. Our work for inclusion and for the realisation of the rights of excluded people
cannot be complete if we don’t consider sexual rights as a necessary element that affects many other domains of development work. Taking sexuality into
consideration means to have respect for the people that we work with and to treat them as citizens.
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Blue Diamond Society (BDS), Nepal's only organization for sexual minorities, was founded in 2001 in an effort to address the needs of sexual minorities.
Sexual diversity
/Gender
- Wed Sep 17 2008
Book: Sexuality, health and human rights
This ground breaking work provides a critical analysis of shifting theoretical perspectives and activist strategies regarding
sexual politics and their larger geopolitical context in the twenty-first century.
Sexual diversity
- Fri Aug 15 2008
Nigeria: gays hesitate at the closet door
Being gay in Nigeria is hard: homosexual sex is illegal, but there is also the sanction contained in a rising tide of religious fundamentalism, and with cultural traditions that generally abhor same-sex coupling.
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