Outright, April 2018 Headquartered in New York City, OutRight is the only global LGBTIQ-specific organization with a permanent presence at the United Nations in New York that advocates for human rights progress for LGBTIQ people. This guide highlights promising progress from some countries in early or interim stages of introducing measures which safeguard sexual and gender minorities from harm...
Key sex work advocacy documents launched
AFAO, 30 June, 2015 In Sydney on 25 June, key sex work policy documents and reports from Scarlet Alliance, the Australian Sex Workers Association, and the Pacific Sex Worker Network (PSWN) were launched. Read more here Download Scarlet Alliance Forum 2014 Key Issues (PDF) Download Principles for Model Sex Work Legislation (PDF) Read Jules Kim’s article on the Lancet Series in HIV Australia...
Criminalisation of homosexual behaviour in Pacific countries undermining HIV effort, advocates say
The International Aids Conference in Melbourne has heard that laws which criminalise homosexual sex are undermining efforts to prevent and treat HIV.
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UN agency labels PNG’s HIV and AIDS crisis a pandemic
Australia Network News, Posted Tue 3 Jun 2014, 9:59am AEST
A United Nations’ agency has labelled PNG’s growing HIV and AIDS public health emergency a pandemic.
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