After UN Trans Advocacy Week (UN TAW) 2023, which took place from 18 to 24 June 2023, GATE asked two delegates about their personal perspectives and highlights of UN TAW 2023.
Read Andreo Gustavo and Douglas da Silva’s answers to three questions below.
At the side event held in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Erika felt overwhelmed and full of emotions!
Also, after 4 years waiting, GATE receives the United Nations ECOSOC special consultative status.
United Nations Trans Advocacy Week (UN TAW) is a collective project by non-governmental organizations, offering trans activists a platform to make their voices heard on a global scale and in international human rights spaces. It’s a chance to bring attention to the challenges and discrimination faced by trans and gender diverse people and to promote equality, acceptance, and understanding.
For the first time at the United Nations, a cross-regional group of 28 countries has called for laws and policies that allow legal gender recognition
GATE provided input to UN IE SOGI on his Country Visit to UK highlighting concerns on impact of anti-gender opposition to trans & gender diverse communities.
The Third Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted the resolution presenting the Annual Report of the Human Rights Council today without a challenge to the renewal of the mandate of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination on the basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (IE SOGI) for a second time.
The sixth edition of the United Nations Trans Advocacy Week will take place virtually. This year’s theme is “Gender Justice, Peace and Security”
GATE invites you to our upcoming virtual trainings and conversations on poverty and health and on resisting the anti-trans opposition. Join us in building collective knowledge, strategies and actions.
The High Level Political Forum (HLPF) is the main United Nations platform on sustainable development. The Major LGBTI Stakeholder Group is composed of global, regional, and national civil society organizations and activists concerned about the inclusion of LGBTI people and SOGIESC issues in the 2030 Agenda.
This APT manual provides practical guidance on this topic, and covers prisons, police custody and immigration detention facilities.