STATE-SPONSORED HOMOPHOBIA - A WORLD SURVEY OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION LAWS: CRIMINALISATION, PROTECTION AND RECOGNITION

This publication continues to address some of the realities of the lives and experiences of LGBTIQ people, and whilst noting the challenges encountered when trying to capture the complexities of people’s realities, it provides a valuable legal analysis that highlights and reminds us of the barriers and battles that are yet to be overcome and fought. [...] In the spirit of facilitating a variety of voices on the pages of this ILGA publication, the team at ILGA-Europe are to be collectively thanked for supplying the overview of developments in Europe over the past year. [...] Through assisting LGBTI civil society engagement, we’ve gained insight into the approach of seven of the Committees to SOGIESC: The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) The Human Rights Committee (HRCee) The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) The Committee against Torture (CAT) The Committee on th. [...] DEVELOPMENTS IN 2014-2015 Between 2014 and 2015, there was an overall increase in the number of country reviews that resulted in Concluding Observations containing SOGIESC issues: from 34% of country reviews to 46%.12 There was an increase in the proportion of relevant recommendations for five of the seven Committees13, although the Human Rights Committee (HRCee) and the Committee for the Eliminat. [...] These participants reviewed the outcomes of the multi-sectorial expert meeting and the online Survey, and then undertook in-depth discussions to provide additional inputs to the definition and the dimensions and indicators of inclusion that should ideally be prioritised in the UNDP LGBTI Inclusion Index.