Ireen Dubel; Andre Hielkema Additional Author mixed material bibliography HiVOS - UWRF 2010

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292 Urgency Required focuses on urgent issues of gay and lesbian liberation, taking a historical perspective and reflecting worldwide geographic diversity. Employing the term �LGBT-persons�, the acronym used for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, it explores concepts and strategies for taking steps towards decriminalization and equal rights and treatment regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. In 2009 homophobia appears to be the last accepted prejudice, where racism is rejected, anti-Semitism is condemned, and the oppression of women has lost its legitimacy. From subtle discrimination to imprisonment, torture, the death penalty and murder: human rights violations against sexual minorities are carried out on a daily basis around the world, not least by governments, in breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, promulgated since 1948. In some eighty countries, gays and lesbians are still regarded as criminals, sometimes awaiting life imprisonment or the death penalty. Not even recognized as human beings, they can be denied rights covered by the whole range of human rights legislation. Urgency Required focuses on urgent issues of gay and lesbian liberation, taking a historical perspective and reflecting worldwide geographic diversity. Employing the term �LGBT-persons�, the acronym used for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, it explores concepts and strategies for taking steps towards decriminalization and equal rights and treatment regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. One such strategy is the innovative use of the internet to connect the LGBT community in Africa. In Urgency Required attention is paid to the Yogyakarta Principles (2006), a framework of internationally recognised human rights, as an important guide for moving towards decriminalization and equal treatment. Other strategies developed by gay and lesbian organisations from all continents of the globe are presented as well. In addition, this book reveals that the LGBT movement is expanding and gaining visibility all over the world, even, against all odds, in Africa and Eastern Europe. Colourful autobiographical accounts by LGBT activists add a personal urgency to the book�s moving and persuasive contents. MORE INFO Website: Urgency Required Document: Download PDF 'Urgency Required Publication.pdf' (5.11 MB) Gays; Gender identity; Homosexuality; Homosexualit Netherlands 9789070435059 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 306.766 DUB Urg 4496 C2O library & collabtive (Fiction & Literature) 6000 UrgencyRequired.jpg 4377 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated