Title:
Urgency required : gay and lesbian rights are human rights
Editor:
Dubel, I.
,
Hielkema, A.
Place:
Den Haag
Publisher:
Hivos
Year:
2010
PAGE:
292
ISBN:
978-90-70435-05-9
Language:
eng
Subject:
Social and Political Change
Keywords:
human rights
,
gender
Abstract:
This book was conceived in response to the 2008 celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Despite this Declaration, which was adopted in 1948, sexual minorities around the world are routinely subjected to flagrant human rights violations (particularly by governments) that range from subtle discrimination to imprisonment, torture, the death penalty and murder. There are still countries where gays and lesbians are not considered human and human rights are not, therefore, considered applicable. This book shows how the rights of gays, lesbians and transgender persons are dealt with throughout the world.
Note:
Expanded English version of: Urgentie geboden. - 2008. - Journal for Humanistics, ISSN 1567-7117 ; issue 33/34
Organization:
Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (HIVOS)
Category:
General
Right:
© 2010 Hivos
Document type:
E-Book/ E-Book Chapter
File:
177729.pdf