gay and lesbian rights are human rights
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dubel, Ireen > (ed.)
- Creator
- Hielkema, André > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- LHBT, biseksuelen, transgenders, gelijke behandeling, identiteit, mensenrechten, Nederland, Afrika, bundel
- Description
- Urgency Required focuses on urgent issues of gay and lesbian liberation, taking a historical perspective and reflecting worldwide geographic diversity. Employing the term ‘LGBT-persons’, the acronym used for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, it explores concepts and strategies for taking steps towards decriminalization and equal rights and treatment regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. From subtle discrimination to imprisonment, torture, the death penalty and murder: human rights violations against sexual minorities are carried out on a daily basis around the world, not least by governments, in breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, promulgated since 1948. In some eighty countries, gays and lesbians are still regarded as criminals, sometimes awaiting life imprisonment or the death penalty. Not even recognized as human beings, they can be denied rights covered by the whole range of human rights legislation.