ASEAN SOGIE Caucus
Inclusive and diverse ASEAN
ASEAN SOGIE Caucus
Inclusive and diverse ASEAN
Inclusive and diverse ASEAN
Inclusive and diverse ASEAN
In the present report, the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal Borloz, explores the impact of colonialism and decolonization on the continued formation and perpetuation of harmful social mores associated with sexual orientation and gender identity, and how these relate to the enjoyment of human rights. He analyses colonialism as one of the root causes of violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and he proposes measures to foster protection, sustainable development and peace for all persons, communities and peoples through the expansion and reform of policies within the United Nations system and by Member States.
An onstage kiss paired with criticism of Malaysia’s anti-LGBT laws led to the immediate shutdown of Friday’s concert by the British band The 1975 and the prompt cancellation of the Kuala Lumpur music festival they were part of.
A planned gathering of LGBT activists and organizations from across southeast Asia has been cancelled, after the group received multiple threats against organizers and participants. This comes amid rising government hostility against LGBT people in Indonesia, where the conference was going to be held, and where the government recently passed aa bill that criminalizes sex outside of marriage, which may de facto criminalize gay sex.
INDONESIA. Minacce di morte, intimidazioni, persecuzioni: così muore la ASEAN Queer Advocacy Week a Giakarta, conferenza regionale di attivis* LGBTQIA+ per parlare di diritti, inficiata dall’intervento dei gruppi conservatori musulmani.
ACFA aims to connect civil society between Southeast Asia and Taiwan in order to confront the trend of the closing of civic space. We learn that ASEAN Queer Advocacy Week (AAW), which is organised by a Philippines-based rights group ASEAN SOGIE Caucus and Indonesia-based Arus Pelangi and other activists, is currently facing waves of digital attacks and security threats, which had led to its cancellation.
Organizers of an LGBTQ and intersex event that was to have begun on Monday in Indonesia said safety concerns prompted them to cancel it.
Reuters reported activists from across Southeast Asia were to have attended the ASEAN Queer Advocacy Week in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital.
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Jakarta resmi batal jadi tuan rumah pertemuan LGBT se-ASEAN setelah menerima rentetan ancaman keamanan dari berbagai pihak. Semula, ASEAN Queer Advocacy Week dijadwalkan akan diadakan di ibu kota pada 17--21 Juli 2023, mempertemukan para aktivis LGBTQ dari seluruh wilayah untuk terhubung dan mendiskusikan tantangan bagi masyarakat.
Jakarta Acting Governor Heru Budi Hartono confirmed that the provincial government did not issue any permits for the gathering of the ASEAN lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community that reportedly will be held in the city on July 17-21, 2023.
“No permit [for the event],” Heru Budi told Tempo via a text message on Tuesday evening, July 11.
Inclusive and diverse ASEAN
Legally Registered in the Philippines as Southeast Asia Sexual Orientation,
Gender Identity and Expression Caucus (ASC), Inc. The organization is in
Special Consultative Status with the UN ECOSOC since 2021.
Quezon City, Philippines
Email: communications@aseansogiecaucus.org
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