EVENT INVITATION: LAGGING BEHIND. UNDERSTANDING THE SLOW PROGRESS OF IMPLEMENTING TRANS, NON-BINARY, AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING WORKERS’ RIGHTS AT THE UN IN GENEVA – 17 November, 12:30 In person, Graduate Institute – Room S5

Gender-diverse workers within International Geneva (UN bodies/agencies, CERN, other IOs, think tanks) continue to face specific types of employment discrimination based on their gender identity and expression. In her research conducted in early 2022, Dr Mira Fey finds that the vast majority of international organisations do not provide adequate employment rights for gender-diverse workers. From an overall lack of awareness among co-workers, supervisors, and senior management over binary human resources (HR) forms and IT systems to almost no gender-neutral toilets, gender-diverse workers report a range of negative day-to-day experiences. Aditya Bharadwaj, Co-Director of the Gender Centre will be moderating the debate together with the Queer International Studies Assembly (QISA). REGISTER This event is organised jointly by the Gender Centre and the Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Call for papers | Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law 10th Annual Conference 2023

The tenth annual conference of the U.C. Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (BCCE) will be held at Utrecht University (the Netherlands) on 28-30 June 2023. 

The conference will provide a space for critical reflection on (comparative) equality law, and for trying out exciting new ideas about how to move equality law forward. The conference organizers particularly welcome submissions that seek to illuminate intersections between equality law and other fields of law (e.g. employment law, criminal law, fundamental rights law, competition law etc) as well as other disciplines (e.g. sociology, political theory, political economy, history, gender and queer studies, economics, etc) and/or intersectional inequalities (e.g. racism, sexism, class inequality, ableism, etc). They particularly encourage submissions that explore equality law in context, as well as combining different legal, empirical, symbolical and other disciplinary methods. 

The call for papers is now available. The deadline for the submissions of abstracts is 15 November 2022.

Should you have any queries, please contact BCCEUtrecht@uu.nl

CALL FOR PAPERS

Interesting new publication: Brian Tobin, The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships – Emerging Families in Ireland and Beyond

More; https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/legal-recognition-of-samesex-relationships-9781509952533/

Junior consultancy opportunity at ILGA World

https://ilga.org/junior-consultancy-legal-research-2022

Violences à l’égard des « femmes » – à qui s’applique ce terme dans la Convention d’Istabul ? (Avis de droit sur mandat du Bureau fédéral de l’égalité entre femmes et hommes (BFEG) en Suisse) La Convention du Conseil de l’Europe sur la prévention et la lutte contre la violence à l’égard des femmes et la violence domestique […]

Violence against “women” – to whom does this term apply in the Istanbul Convention? (Legal opinion commissioned by the Federal Office for Gender Equality (FOGE) in Switzerland) — LGBTI Recht in der Schweiz – Droit LGBTI en Suisse – by Professor Andreas R Ziegler

New Article: Andreas R. Ziegler / Raphaël Bagi / Tala Jaber, Les thérapies de conversion en droit suisse, in : Jusletter 31 octobre 2022 Depuis quelques années, la question de savoir si les traitements visant à modifier l’orientation sexuelle ou l’identité de genre devant être interdits ou, du moins, réglementés préoccupe les législateurs. Avec son […]

Nouvel article: Andreas R. Ziegler / Raphaël Bagi / Tala Jaber, Les thérapies de conversion en droit suisse, in : Jusletter 31 octobre 2022 — LGBTI Recht in der Schweiz – Droit LGBTI en Suisse – by Professor Andreas R Ziegler

France: Jean-Marc Berthon nommé ambassadeur pour les droits des personnes «LGBT+»

Lire: https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/jean-marc-berthon-nomme-ambassadeur-pour-les-droits-des-personnes-lgbt-28-10-2022-65M3K3HSHRBWVC5PTYRVRNJHTU.php

New article: Pietro Pustorino & Elena Terrizzi, Discrimination against Women and Gender Stereotypes Under the “CEDAW”: A Direct Protection of the LGBT Rights in Flamer-Caldera v. Sri Lanka?

in: La Comunità Internazionale (Vol. 77, no. 3, 2022).

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls on Russian legislators to repeal, not expand, anti-LGBT bill

On Thursday, the Russian parliament – the State Duma – adopted proposals to broaden a ban on any discussion and sharing of information about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and their human rights.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, is deeply concerned about this latest development, which infringes even further on international human rights norms and standards.

The proposals would expand an existing law from 2013, which has been extensively examined and condemned by UN human rights experts as discriminatory, violating fundamental rights to freedom of expression, and leading to an increase in hate speech, hate crimes, and abuse, including against children.

The legislative amendments worsen this situation by broadening the scope of the law to a blanket ban on all communications on the subject, including to adults. The proposals also target the rights of transgender people.

The High Commissioner appeals to legislators, who will consider the proposals in a further two readings, to reject this proposal, and to instead repeal the existing law and take urgent steps to prohibit and actively combat both discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The High Commissioner also notes that exclusion, stigmatisation and discrimination of any group within a society is corrosive, is a root cause of violence, and has a negative impact on society as a whole.

More: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2022/10/turk-calls-russian-legislators-repeal-not-expand-anti-lgbt-bill

Mexico celebrates as same-sex marriage becomes law of the land

Same-sex marriage has been fully legalised across Mexico, after the final state, Tamaulipas, voted in favour of the law on Wednesday (26 October).

More: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/same-sex-marriage-legalised-mexico/