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Homophobia
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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Rights of persons with disabilities
Disability experts from around the world with backgrounds in government, international organizations, and civil society stressed the need to mainstream disability in all development activities in order to achieve equality for persons with disabilities.
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Poverty
"The history of development success shows that the crucible of change is primarily national and local, but rich countries, societies, and corporations carry a huge respon sibility. The deeply inequitable forms of global governance must be overhauled so that global phenomena such as climate change, capital flows, migration, conflict, or trade and investment are managed in ways that reduce poverty, inequality, and suffering".
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Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean
In Peru interrupting a pregnancy is legal in order to save the life of the woman or to avoid serious and permanent damage to her health. In practice there are significant barriers to accessing lawful abortions. Legal "therapeutic" abortion is a vital public health service, and denial of this service jeopardizes a broad range of fundamental human rights of women and girls.
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Gender-based violence
It is now fashionable in academic and activist circles to speak of transitional justice in normative, inflexible terms that suggest a utopian certainty. Nothing could be further from the truth. At the outset, we need to understand that transitional justice concepts are experimental –good experiments to be sure– but that they do not offer us tested panacea because they are essentially works in progress.
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Sexual diversity and the law
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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Migrants are commonly seen as both unwanted intruders and powerless victims, but Laura Agustin own ideas work to break down this duality and think about power in different ways. Laura Agustín writes as a lifelong migrant and sometime worker in both nongovernmental and academic projects about sex, travel and work.
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Gender
- Wed Sep 24 2008
Sex Workers from Denmark demonstrates at ESF 2008 in Sweden
A danish sex workers rights group)(SIO) took the opportunity to do something else than having endless discussions with abolitionists from all parts of Scandinavia and organized a sex workers rights bloc at the European Social Forum 2008.
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Sexual diversity
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- 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.
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Stand up and take action against poverty and for the MDGs
Demand an end to official harassment of LGBT activists in Uganda
The Yanomami threathened by gold mining
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