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This report is the outcome of two processes; an LGBTI research study and deliberations of an international donor roundtable held in Kenya in October 2005. The donor roundtable convening was organized by the Urgent Action Fund-Africa with support from the Ford Foundation Office for Eastern Africa and HIVOS .
The study has reaffirmed that sexuality and sexual matters remain taboo subjects within most of the region. The gradual but slow realization that same-sex relationships are based upon fundamental human rights and freedom is slowly though reluctantly ?seeping? across the region. The cultural and religious biases continue to discriminate and inhibit the full realization of the LGBTI communities. The ?closeted? lifestyle of LGBTI?s transcends the region and is a direct violation of an individual?s right to association and freedom of choice. Notwithstanding the silence surrounding human rights of LGBTI groups, their very existence has facilitated public discourse on the indivisibility of human rights and poses the challenge to human rights activists selectively working around some human rights issues.
This training tool was developed as part of the EU-funded project ?Capacity Building of Civil Society dealing with Anti-Discrimination? with the aim to provide training on European and national anti-discrimination law and policy to non-governmental organizations in the 10 Member States which joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 as well as in Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey.
NGOs have a vital role to play in making anti-discrimination legislation understood and enforced on the ground. They are essential in speaking on behalf of and defending those they represent as well as raising awareness, of both victims and potential victims of discrimination, who are all too often unaware of their rights, and also of the general public.
The manual was used by national trainers conducting national training seminars in each involved country. Participants came from a wide variety of non-governmental organizations and associations covering all grounds of discrimination - racial and ethnic origin (including Roma), religion or belief, age, disability and sexual orientation.
Haiti: A tale of two summits By Charles Arthur (Vienna, 12 May 2006) Two parallel summits on European-Latin American/Caribbean relations are taking place in the Austrian capital, Vienna, this week. Around sixty heads of state from both regions are attending the 4th European Union-Latin America Summit to discuss trade, regional integration and other issues. Meanwhile, at the same time, representatives of civil society organisations are holding an alternative summit, "Linking Alternatives".
25 May 2005
David Ellerman, a former aide to Joseph Stiglitz at the World Bank, analyses 'disabling' help as a pathology of the aid business.
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BY JANE BUSSEYMiami Herald 1 June 2005
It used to be the military that deposed governments in Latin America. Now it is armies of have-nots that are toppling presidencies.
30 June 2005
A major new study released today by Freedom House shows that nonviolent "people power" movements are the strongest force in most successful transitions to democracy.
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Via the Internet, fax, and World Wide Web, along with traditional modes of mobilization, a diverse group of protesters that includes labor and civil rights activists, environmentalists and feminists, evangelicals and gun owners, the young and the old, progressives and conservatives, are using their collective, often global, power to withhold support from businesses deemed immoral or, conversely, use their purchasing power to support a cause
Hivos India has compiled an information pack containing over 10,000 pages of material on aid and development debates. The CD comprises a wealth of information, and is divided into three sections which makes it easy to navigate: CSB, Development & Democracy; Donor Policy Documents; and Theories and Ideologies of Development.
The World Bank kindly gave us permission to publish this working report that brings together background materials and discussions from a two-day working meeting on “Power, Rights, and Poverty Reduction” held jointly by the World Bank and the United Kingdom Department for International Development in March 2004. The meeting represented an important step in our continuing effort to understand issues of empowerment, power, and human rights, and how they influence and are influenced by our work.
