Actualités IRN

Gran Lakou, calls for law reform - Caribbean IRN Update 26 February, 2012

Gran Lakou is an LGBT inclusive Dance Group in Jakmel , Haiti and this video tells more of their campaign for support.

The public commentary continues in the Caribbean to call for the necessary law reforms to ensure rights for LGBT citizens. Sir Ronald Saunders comments again in The Caribbean—not so gay .
Another commentary in Trinidad & Tobago A fight for equal rights and in Jamaica this EDITORIAL - Prime Minister should decry homophobic bigotry and this reminder This pesky gay business highlight the media around LGBT issues in the Caribbean

The Law reform is needed as stated in this report from St Kitts and Nevis Public Outcry: 4 Yrs in Jail for Buggery, Life for Rape  while one regional civil servant is reported to have  said that Caribbean plans regional approach to abolish gay laws

St Lucia was the venue for a Dialogue on global LGBT movements and this report was carried in Antigua and Barbuda Local duo participates in regional LGBT dialogue

In health, this Trinidad & Tobago headline Men who have sex with Men : 200 men tells of the work being done on HIV prevention.

We have also added a list of Organisations in the Caribbean working on LGBT rights. This list is not exhaustive and other contacts and information will be added as they become available.

We are working on finishing off our 'Theorizing Homophobia in the Caribbean' Collection and on seeking funds to continue to support the work of the IRN.

Gays in the Cabinet, priority of sins - the Caribbean IRN Update 20 January

In this update, we share the reports from Jamaica and Guyana who held their elections within the last two months, and other updates from the Caribbean media.

The Jamaican elections became more interesting when PNP candidate after    Portia says nothing is wrong with gays in Cabinet and this generated many responses as in this Coverage of the pro-LGBT stance taken by Ms Portia Simpson Miller

and most recently Dealing with the gay rights issue . Lloyd D'Aguilar also launched the short documentary NOT in My Cabinet : Homophobia in the Caribbean

The news that Jamaican gay activist, Maurice Tomlinson, married a Torontonian was also carried in the Jamaican media with headlines such as Jamaican gay activist marries 'soulmate'

In Trinidad & Tobago we learn of the work of two persons in Is being gay...grounds for discrimination? and this article is published by a Caribbean Legal Scholar Homosexuality and the Consitution

The whole issue of sin, and the multitude of sins is dealt with in these two articles from Diminishing reason, diminishing respect and this Belize Times Commentary in REID BETWEEN THE LINES of 25 November, 2011

In Guyana, the News reports about Guyana and LGBT Rights on the UPR process reveal among other things, that Government expects SASOD to "convince the religious community and not have the Government do their work"

Sexualidades-se solicitan articulos/Sexualidades-Call for Participation

• CALL FOR PAPERS

Submissions sought for Sexualidades

A Working Paper Series on Latin American and Caribbean Sexualities

• CHAMADA DE ARTIGOS

Sexualidades: Série Monográfica Sobre Sexualidades Latino-Americanas e Caribenhas

• SE SOLICITAN ARTÍCULOS

Sexualidades: Serie Monográfica sobre Sexualidades Latinoamericanas y Caribeñas

“Does your mother know?" IRN Latin American Collection of LGBT Stories

Check out the IRN project “Does your mother know?" a collection of stories of Latin Americans that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer from the Latin American continent and in Diaspora communities.

Sexualides Edition 8 is out! Sexualidades Edicion 8 es disponible!

Sexualidades is an e-journal presenting working papers in the field of sexuality studies in the Americas.
Sexualidades es una serie monográfica electrónica presentando artículos en el campo de sexualidades en las Américas.
Edicion 8 es disponible. Issue Number 8 is out!

http://www.irnweb.org/en/journals/view/sexualidades

Caribbean IRN Update 11 November, 2011

Change and resistance to change - check out the latest update from Caribbean IRN

IRN Newsletter Latin America & The World

The September Edition of the IRN Newsletter Latin America & The World is now available.

To access the newsletter click here.

Envisioning Project Awarded $1M

The IRN-NA Regional Board would like to take a moment and congratulate one of our activate Regional Board members, Kimberly Vance, and her award this summer for $1 million for her within the Envisioning Global LGBT project.

Further details regarding the Envisioning Global LGBT project may be viewed here.

Transgender Europe presents paper “Human Rights and Gender Identity”

Transgender Europe's (TGEU) research project “Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide” (TvT) publishes the Italian translation of the ground-breaking “Issue Paper Human Rights and Gender Identity” of Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg of the Council of Europe.

The Issue Paper has increased the visibility of trans issues since its publication in July 2009. It is ground-breaking in that it provides a summary of the manifold human rights violations against trans people and posits demands and remedies of how the situation of trans people should be responded to by the CoE member states.

With the Italian translation, this important document will now become more accessible to the Italian trans community and will provide a useful tool for advocacy work in Italy and for Italian speaking activists. TGEU distributed the print version at the 15^th ILGA Europe conference in Torino, Italy. Now the PDF version is available on the TvT website.

Transgender Europe (TGEU) already published three translations of the paper, into Spanish, German, and Polish. These publications initiated the publication series of the “Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide” (TvT) research project. The Italian translation is the fourth volume of the TvT publication series. Further translations will follow.

The four volumes of the TvT publication series can be found as PDF files

on the TvT project website:

http://www.transrespect-transphobia.org/en_US/tvt-project/publications.htm

Print copies of the TvT publication series can be obtained from the TvT research team. See contact information below.

TvT is a comparative, ongoing qualitative-quantitative research project, which provides an overview of the human rights situation of trans people in different parts of the world and develops useful data and advocacy tools for international institutions, human rights organizations, the trans movement and the general public. A research team from Transgender Europe coordinates the project, which is funded by the Open Society Foundations, the ARCUS Foundation, and partly by the Heinrich Boell Foundation.

If you have further questions or if you want to support the TvT project,

please contact the TvT research team:

Dr Carsten Balzer and Dr Jan Hutta

research[at]transrespect-transphobia.org

www.transrespect-transphobia.org

Video of IRN/ IASSCS panel at the IASSCS conference 2011

The video of the joint IRN and IASSCS session entitled "Promoting Sexual Justice: Advocacy, Front line Activism, and Academic Research-lessons learned, emerging opportunities" is available here. Welcome to join the discussion on YouTue or our website.