Intersectional approaches to advance the human rights of LGBTQIA+ persons is increasingly being applied by civil society organizations in Southeast Asia. Increasingly there has been efforts by many non-LGBTQIA+ focused groups to integrate SOGIESC into their work around cross-movement issues such as access to justice, inclusive employment and livelihoods, removing barriers to access to education, and ending domestic violence. These entail...

PRESS RELEASE INCLUSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBTQIA+ IN THE PHILIPPINES’ UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW (UPR) 2022   MANILA, PHILIPPINES—The Philippines’ human rights record is reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) yesterday, November 14, 2022, at 10 a.m. Geneva (Switzerland) time, for the fourth time. The Philippines’ first, second, and third UPR took place in 2008, 2012, and 2017,...