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Urgency required : gay and lesbian rights are human rights


Document type: book
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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
Category: General
Editor: Dubel, I. , Hielkema, A.
ISBN: 978-90-70435-05-9
Keywords: human rights , gender
Language: eng
Organization: Hivos – Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation
PAGE: 292
Place: Den Haag
Publisher: Hivos
Year: 2010
Right: © 2010 Hivos
Subject: Social and Political Change
Title: Urgency required : gay and lesbian rights are human rights