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LGBTIQ rights
LGBTQ campaigns seek to achieve the promotion and protection of LGBTQ rights, and LGBTQ equality. As a society we’re at our best when we are open and accepting and we ensure that everyone is safe, empowered and supported. We can all play our part in building communities that are inclusive and properly recognise and respect the rights of LGBTIQ communities. We can also urge our governments to tackle violence and discrimination and remove any discrimination from national laws, in line with international and regional human rights standards.
You may have seen slightly distinct acronyms used for and by the LGBTIQ or LGBTQ movement. Acronyms used depend on the specific communities that are existence referred to. At the United Nations you will hear the term sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGI) or sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) &#; these terms refer to the issues relevant to the LGBTQ and LGBTIQ communities. Not all communities within the LGBTIQ communities suffer from the same violations, for example, the intersex collective suffers specific and clear violations.
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The Equality Act
The Problem
Despite significant steps forward, lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender diverse, and queer (LGBTQ+) Americans continue to experience discrimination across the country. The patchwork nature of express non-discrimination laws and the lack of permanent, comprehensive federal nondiscrimination laws abandon millions of people subject to uncertainty and potential discrimination that impacts their safety, their families, and their day-to-day lives.
Our nation’s civil rights laws safeguard people on the basis of race, color, national origin, and in most cases, sex, disability, and religion. But federal regulation does not explicitly provide non-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The need for these protections is clear—nearly two-thirds of LGBTQ+ Americans report having experienced discrimination in their personal lives.
Everyone should have a impartial chance to provide a home for their families and access essential services without fear of harassment or discrimination.
What is the Equality Act?
The Equality Proceed would provide consistent and explicit non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people across key areas of life, inc
LGBTQ Rights
The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in Founded in , the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Project brings more LGBTQ rights cases and activism initiatives than any other national organization does and has been counsel in seven of the nine LGBTQ rights cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided. With our reach into the courts and legislatures of every state, there is no other organization that can match our record of making progress both in the courts of regulation and in the court of public opinion.
The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and violence toward transgender people, to close gaps in our federal and mention civil rights laws, to prevent protections against discrimination from being undermined by a license to discriminate, and to protect LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.
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For non-LGBTQ issues, please contact your local ACLU affiliate.
The ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Gender diverse Project seeks to build a just society for all LGBTQ people regardless of race or income. Through litig
Equal Rights Coalition’s History
The Same Rights Coalition (ERC) was founded in at the Global LGBTI Human Rights Conference in Montevideo, under the leadership of Uruguay and the Netherlands, and is dedicated to the protection of the human rights of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons, and the promotion of inclusive development.
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The Co-Chairs
The ERC is currently co-chaired by the governments of Colombia and Spain, for the period. The Declare Co-Chairs are supported by Civil Society Co-Chairs, who for this term are Caribe Afirmativo for Colombia and Fundación Triángulo for Spain.
Thematic areas
These thematic areas each have working groups which afford a regular opportunity for Member States, INGOs and civil community to engage in secure dialogue.
Donor Coordination
Collaboration of governments, civil society, and other stakeholders to increase and improve the level of sustainable funding for the promotion and protection of LGBTI human rights.
International Diplomacy
Coordination of Member States and other stakeholders to strength
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