Joint Statement: Selection of UNAIDS Executive Director
The HIV epidemic is far from over and the relevance, leadership and guidance of UNAIDS is ever more critical. ICASO and GATE recognize that a strong and effective UNAIDS is needed to ensure that HIV continues to be a global development priority and that sufficient resources are allocated to end the epidemic.
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- 31 July 2019
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- 30 July 2019
IAS 2019 – A focus on trans communities
The inclusion of trans communities in the global HIV response is growing, and with it, a greater understanding of the necessity for differentiated service delivery, community-led services, and a holistic approach that integrates HIV and sexual health care with trans-related healthcare.
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- 20 July 2019
Press Release: 3rd UN Trans Advocacy Week 2019 comes to an end
In an unprecedented effort, 16 defenders from 15 countries participated over the three weeks of the 41st Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva from 24 June to 12 July - a historic landmark in trans and gender-diverse participation at UN level advocacy.
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- 17 July 2019
Press Release: Renewal of IE SOGI Mandate at HRC 41
UN renews crucial mandate for protection against violence and discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. This is another historic victory, not only for communities of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, but for humanity as a whole.
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- 12 July 2019
Petition to the Congregation for Catholic Education
The Congregation for Catholic Education released a document titled “Male and Female He Created Them” that contains deeply problematic language on gender issues, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and children’s rights. Sign our Petition against this blatant reproduction of ignorance, fear and hate.
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- 28 June 2019
Joint Statement on ICD-11 process for trans & gender diverse people
The ICD-11 is to be voted in at the 72nd World Health Assembly. After moving trans-related categories out of the Chapter on Mental Health, the next steps in the process include getting rid of the remaining pathologizing language and advancing towards legal depathologization and universal health coverage.
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- 24 May 2019
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- 24 May 2019
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- 23 May 2019
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- 31 March 2019
International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
ATE joins the voices of trans and sex worker organization and activists around the world calling for the urgent decriminalization of sex work and an end to legal oppression, equal protection from law enforcement and criminal justice systems, and end to the use of condoms as ‘evidence’ of sex work, as this prevents the practice of safe sex, and equal access to rights-based health and social services for sex workers.
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- 17 December 2018
WPATH, Listen!
WPATH has a unique responsibility to protect and promote the rights of trans and gender diverse people and, by association, intersex people, in order to ensure that it does not tacitly act as a tool of oppression against those on whom their clinical and research practice is focused. // WPATH tiene la responsabilidad única de proteger y promover los derechos de las personas trans y de género diverso y, por asociación, de las personas intersex, a fin de garantizar que no actúe tácitamente como herramienta de opresión contra aquelles en quienes que se enfocan sus prácticas clínicas y de investigación.
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- 7 December 2018
GATE Statement & Call for Application on World Aids Day 2018
1 December 2018 is the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day. As a key population, trans and gender diverse people are still 13 times more likely to be living with HIV than the general population. Today, GATE opens the call to join our International Working Group on Trans Masculine People and HIV.
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- 1 December 2018
Activist Delegation to 25th WPATH Symposium
Akahatá, GATE, ILGA World and TGEU have brought together 50 intersex, trans and gender diverse activists from around the world to Buenos Aires, Argentina for the 25th WPATH Symposium from 2-6 November 2018. We will be sharing information during the WPATH Symposium about our engagement and actions, so please follow GATE’s social media for updates.
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- 1 November 2018
Where is the evidence?
Intersex activists and experts have spent at least 25 years disclosing and bringing to light strong evidence against unconsented and unnecessary medical interventions on intersex people. These interventions lack any sound evidence to support them and their rationales. In recent years, UN Treaty Bodies and many other human rights instruments and institutions have responded to these testimonies [1]. However, they persist.
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- 26 October 2018