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LGBTIQ rights
LGBTQ campaigns seek to verb 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 harmless, 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 encourage 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 different acronyms used for and by the LGBTIQ or LGBTQ movement. Acronyms used trust on the specific communities that are being 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 verb to the issues relevant to the LGBTQ and LGBTIQ communities. Not all communities within the LGBTIQ communities suffer from the same violations, for exa
The Equality Act
The Problem
Despite significant steps forward, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) Americans continue to experience discrimination across the country. The patchwork nature of state non-discrimination laws and the lack of immortal, comprehensive federal nondiscrimination laws depart 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 protect people on the basis of race, color, national origin, and in most cases, sex, disability, and religion. But federal law 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 equitable chance to provide a dwelling for their families and access essential services without fear of harassment or discrimination.
What is the Equality Act?
The Equality Act would provide co
LGBTQ Rights
The ACLU has a lengthy 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 advocacy 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 correspond our record of making progress both in the courts of law 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 state 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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Equal Rights Coalition’s History
The Equal 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 adj to the protection of the human rights of lesbian, gay, 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 State 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 society to engage in near 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.