March 5, 2024 Reports & Guides In our business world and entire society, gender discrimination is a persuasive issue. It suppresses voices and obstructs opportunities, hindering progress toward sustainable development and a more equitable future. ...
Through its work, the Institute of Development Studies Sexuality, Poverty and Law programme (SPLP) provides new evidence-based knowledge and policy options that support efforts to: (1) strengthen, through legal reform, the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and those...
Dressing as a character of their gender is a “step outside” of their real lives, which may be the site of discrimination and misunderstanding (Sacredfire 2010). It is important to note, however, that cosplay in this sense is not necessarily viewed by trans cosplayers as “a form of ...
Gender inequality is unfortunately still alive and well in Mexico. It is often shown through discrimination and human rights violations. Several women’s empowerment groups aim to change the status quo. Perhaps the most successful to date has been an organization known as Semillas (= seeds). Foun...
Some gender gaps are closing, but the pace of progress is too slow in trade. Reformers in government and business can show the way. Learn more.
Widespread and systematic human rights violations on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and homosexuality persist in the Philippines. The arrests, harassment, and discrimination faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the Philippines demonstrate the urgent need ...
and soft law has spurred the recognition of women’s rights over the 20th Century and at the beginning of the 21st Century. The principle of non-discrimination on the basis of sex is enshrined in the majority of national constitutions, although it is absent from the constitutions of some ASEA...
Male-to-Female (MTF) transgender sex workers are a high-risk population prone to depression and stress regarding body image, intimate relationships marked by violence, and social stigma, rendering them vulnerable to hate crimes and discrimination. Ethnographic data from in-depth interviews with 49 ...
Gender dysphoria as a psychological term once referred to the erroneous view that transgender identity was seen as a mental illness; this is no longer the view of mainstream psychology, which now focuses on how discrimination, social pressures, bullying and social stigma negatively impact on transgen...
discrimination against same-sex parents under the rigid gender complementary and heterosexual standards of the Catholic Church's moral magisterium, founded on the philosophical approach of natural law theory. It recommends a synodal openness to diverse family structures and definitions of children's ...