ASEAN SOGIE Caucus

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Workshop Report: Regional Learning Session on...

Published on
27 May 2019Posted by
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ASC and Save the Children recently organized a regional learning session on child rights and SOGIESC. The activity aimed to foster dialogue between LGBTIQ and child rights advocates, to identify the common points between child rights and LGBTIQ advocacy, and to generate recommendations for collaborative actions. This activity is one of the steps done by ASC to mainstream SOGIESC issues within key human rights issues relevant to the region....

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Statement of ASEAN Civil Society Organizations...

Published on
03 Apr 2019Posted by
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We, the undersigned civil society organizations in the ASEAN region, urge the government of Brunei to immediately halt the full implementation of the Sharia Penal Code (SPC). The said law entails provisions that contradict international human rights standards, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination...

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Call for Applications: Asean Queer Leadership...

Published on
13 Mar 2019Posted by
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ASC News
To all Southeast Asian LGBTIQ advocates: ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, with support from the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights (RFSL) is organizing its second ASEAN Queer Leadership Week in Bangkok, Thailand from 10 June 2019 to 14 June 2019. This program – the first of its kind to be organized by and for Southeast Asian activists – will bring together participants to an intensive one-week program where they will...

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