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Creating Social Changes |
| 14:00
- 15:30 |
MARIAGE EQUALITY FOR SAME-SEX COUPLES
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Always A Bridesmaid, Never a Groom, a one woman comedy show by
Robin Tyler
Canadian born
Robin Tyler, made history as the first out
lesbian or gay comic. In this workshop, she
does a reading of her award-winning New York
Play, “Always A Bridesmaid, Never A Groom.” The
reading will be a multi-media presentation,
with photographs and videos of the US gay movement,
including the Marches on Washington, where
Robin produced the main stages. The play, a
camp comedy, will follow
Robin’s coming out,to her countless romances, and her attempts for decades, to get married (not to the same woman). Robin, an historic political activist, has been a keynote speaker at gay prides around the world, and has appeared in her own one woman show at the Bloomsbury Theater in London’s
West End. She has recorded 4 comedy albums,
and was the first open lesbian or gay comic
on National Television. Women, Men, Transgender,
Bi, Straight, questioning, Feminists, and everyone
who is just fed up with the fighting within
our movement, come to have fun, as you laugh
your way through history. Yes, this absolutely
NOT politically correct workshop is for you.
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Room:
516-B
Language:
English
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Queer
Theory, science and strategy |
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Queer Protection and LGBT Rights
The workshop will consider
the concrete elements of challenges associated
with the emergence and regulation of queer
citizenship in Canada in this century. It
will do so by examining geographic areas,
criminal codes and ongoing projects that
seek to ‘clean-up’ the
social, political and physical bodies of sexual
identities.
Queer theory or queer studies is an increasingly
visible component of university teaching and
scholarship in a number of Western countries,
particularly the United States. Queer theory
emphasises social-constructionist over biological
explanations for homosexuality, celebrates
nonconformity, and stresses the potential of
non-normative genders and sexualities to serve
as the locus for a radical transformation of
society. What can the LGBT rights movement learn from queer critiques of the
globalisation of “Gay Pride,” and what can queer theory learn from
the LGBT rights movement’s emphasis on the material reality of sexual and
gender minorities globally?
One of the speakers will
also address the content of his book, entitled “The Hidden
Assault on Our Civil Rights”, which discusses
the three generations of gays’ rights:
conversion, passing and covering.
Doreen Fumia,
Assistant Professor, Ryerson University (Canada)
Dona Yarbrough,
Ph.D. Director, LGBT Center (USA)
Kenji Yoshino,
Deputy Dean for Intellectual Life and Professor
of Law, Yale Law School (USA) |
Room:
512-F
Language:
English
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Queer
Theory, science and strategy |
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Intersections, Imperialism and Gender Borders: Iran, Israel and the UN
This presentation will look at the trial of
Hen Alkobi. Alkobi was convicted (in plea-bargain)
in 2003 of “impersonating another person” and
of attempting to have a sexual relation to
which consent was given based on “deception
regarding the actor”. This followed complaints
from four girls who were in different sorts
of relationships with Alkobi (only one of them
argued she actually had sex with him), thinking
he was a man, and not knowing he had female
genitalia. The workshop will also use examples
from urban sites and religious rituals, to
shed light on the contemporary accommodation
of sexual diversity, embracement of gender
fluidity and queerness in Iranian cultural
and social settings. Another part of the workshop
will explore how photography has been employed
by socially, culturally, and economically marginalised
black lesbian women as a site of resistance
to not only return the gaze of the colonisers,
but to develop what bell hooks has called a ‘critical
gaze’ into dominant heteropatriarchal
and imperialist constructions of black women’s
bodies and their sexualities in South Africa.
Aeyal Gross,
Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)
Amir Baradaran,
Masters Student, Department of Communications, Concordia University (Canada)
Anick Druelle,
Postdoctoral Student, Institute for Women’s Studies (United Kingdom)
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Room:
512-H
Language:
English
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Successful
strategies against oppression |
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Strategies for Equality in Québec, Switzerland and Belgium
The Québec Gay and Lesbian Council,
the former Table de concertation des lesbiennes
et des gais du Québec, will draw a portray
of the political strategies use to realise
juridical equality in Quebec and Canada (for
example, civil union and marriage of same sex
couples). This part of the workshop will also
describe the challenges faced by the Conseil
to succeed this level of social equality.
Claude
Côté,
Vice-President to political affairs, Conseil
québécois des gais
et lesbiennes (Canada)
Switzerland was the first country ever to vote
on a nationwide referendum about same-sex legislation
in June 2005. Due to this special circumstance,
the Swiss LGBT organisations had to convince
not only the parliament but the majority of
the Swiss inhabitants of the partnership-law,
which was a great chance to increase awareness
of LGBT issues. This part of the workshop will
provide knowledge on how this could be achieved,
highlight positive possibilities of social
change and giving information about the actual
situation.
Simone
Brander, Lesbenorganisation Schweiz LOS (Switzerland)
In conclusion, under the name ‘It’s not my type!’ another segment
of the workshop will be dedicated to the ways of using gender analysis (sexism,
homophobia and heterosexism) as a consensual factor in social change towards
equality, education and health.
Rosine
Horincq,
Magenta (Belgium)
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Room:
513-C
Language:
French
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Building
Strategic Alliances |
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Democratic Movements in Eastern Asia and Our Struggle to Mainstream LGBT Rights in Socio-Political Change
From the mid-1980s up to the present, East
Asian countries have been struggling to widen,
or to maintain, the democratic space that their
people have gained through against dictatorships
by popular uprising and/or revolts. As we have
seen, LGBT people were part of the post-dictatorship
activists who tried to create working and people-responsive
governments.
This workshop seeks to look at the process
by which LGBT rights have been made public
by LGBT activists, and assess how successful
they have been in “mainstreaming” LGBT
issues –- thus initiating political,
cultural and social change. This workshop also
seeks to present a possible module for LGBT
people in East Asia involved in socio-political
change in their countries.
Rosanna Flamer Caldera,
Co-Secretary General, ILGA-Word (Sri Lanka)
Anna Leah Sarabia,
Executive Director, Women’s Media Circle
Foundation (Philippines)
Aung Myo Min,
Director, Committee for Lesbigay Rights (Burma;
Thailand)
Djoni Agus Suparta,
Board Member, GAYa Nusantara (Indonesia)
Anaraa N. Olhonuud,
Founder and Coordinator, Mongolian Lesbian
Information and Community Centre (Mongolia)
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Room:
511-A
Language:
English
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Public
edication and policies to combat homophobia and
discrimination |
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LGBT Challenges in Québec: Homophobia at School, Invisibility in the Workplace, Conjugal Violence and the Multiple Identities of Immigrants
This workshop will be a
forum to treat important questions for gays
and lesbians. In the first part, the workshop
will concentrate on geographic mobility and
gay and lesbian identities. The various possibilities
of gay and lesbian identification, opened
by international or inter-regional migration,
based on reports of individual and family trajectories
of gays and lesbians, born outside of Canada
or into an immigrant family and now living
in Montréal, will be analysed.
Another segment of the workshop will be dedicated
to the pairing of homosexuality and the
school environment. A questionnaire distributed
before and after the meeting will collect
statistics relating to the perception of
homosexuality. The workshop will also bring
to light the response of the lesbian community,
as well as its roles and responsibilities,
with regards to conjugal violence.
In conclusion, the last part entitled ‘To come out or not to come out:
a map of gay and lesbian visibility in the workplace’ will present the
accomplishments of the research group, Homosexuality and the Work Environment.
Karol
O’Brien,
GIVCL (Canada)
Stephan Giroux,
Training Coordinator, GRIS Montréal (Canada)
Frédérick Gagné,
Doctoral Candidate, Université Laval (Canada)
Mathieu Latour,
Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada) |
Room:
515-C
Language:
French
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Public
education and policies to combat homophobia and
discrimination |
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New Media Outreach for Non-Profit Organisations and Corporations
Late in the summer of 2005,
reports began circulating on the World Wide
Web of gay men being tortured by the government
in Iran. The author of the initial report
circulated the story to a number of online
citizen journalists (bloggers) who wrote
about it and linked to the original source
from these reports, alternative newspapers
around the United States. In September, the
online news outlet PageOneQ obtained exclusive
photographs of a victim of Iran’s gay
beatings which it posted online—garnering
global attention for the issue, featured in
gay newspapers from London to Los Angeles and
even pushing it into the mainstream press.
Workshop presenters will draw upon their experiences
to educate attendees on using the Internet
to expand their audience and generate activism
from around the globe to support local
causes.
Scott
Schmidt, Editor, Boifromtroy.com and BlogCabinCA.org
(USA)
Daniel Garcia,
Advertising Sales, Hyperion Interactive Media
(USA) |
Room:
515-A
Language:
English
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Essential
Rights |
| 14:00
- 15:30 |
LGBTs in Anglophone Africa
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This
workshop will discuss the examples of certain
African countries in relation to LGBT rights.
In the first part, the presentation will share
with the LGBT global community on the ongoing
debate on whether LGBT rights should be protected
in the new constitution that is being debated
in Kenya, and will present how the Kenyan LGBT
community continues to struggle against politically
instigated homophobia as a result of the constitutional
debate. Then, a Kenyan LGBT activist will discuss
the question of HIV/AIDS in Kenya. The last part
of the workshop will address essential rights
for LGBT people with reference to HIV, illustrated
through the situation of Botswana.
Tom Abongo,
Director, Equality NOW (Kenya)
Monica Tabengwa,
LeGaBiBo (Botswana)
William O’Duor,
Identity Network for East & Central (Kenya) |
Room:
512-B
Language:
English
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Freedom from Violence and Freedom of Association for LGBTs in Brazil
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Violent actions committed by those whose very objective is to minimise it, that being police officers, civilians and the military, are easily discernible. Minorities are vulnerable to such arbitrary violence; transgenders in particular. This workshop will introduce a study on this population which is subject to such political violence and how the judiciary system reacts to and finally renders judgement in such cases. The second speaker will deal more particularly with the common good in relation to rights and equality as well as possible avenues of action for government and civil society. The third part of the workshop will provide several examples of actions and programmes through which the Brazilian government has contributed to the LGBT movement.
Luis Gustavo Bezeril de Menezes, Technical
Coordinator, Assistant Coordinator of the Project “Libertas”,
SOMOS – Comunicação, Saúde
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Sexualidade (Brazil)
Welton Trindade,
President, Estruturação - Grupo
LGBT de Brasilia (Brazil)
Silvanio Mota,
President, GIAMA (Brazil) |
Room:
521-B
Language:
Portuguese
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
LGBT
Human Rights in the South
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Accounts
of Lesbian Life:
Diversity, Rights and Lesbophobia
This workshop aims to report
on and to compare the experiences of two
major projects detailing lesbian life. The
first was executed in Southern Africa, and
involved 9 researchers from 6 African countries.
This project led to the establishment of
the Coalition of African Lesbians, which
is currently expanding such research to more
African countries. The resulting book Tommy
Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives, co-authored
by Ruth Morgan and Saskia Wieringa , is an
influential tool in the movement to fight the
homophobia of post-colonial leaders in Africa.
The second project is related to the Asian
Network of Activists and Academic, Kartini,
and investigates women’s marginal sexualities,
which includes lesbian sexualities. It is
a comparative research project between India
and Indonesia.
Saskia
E. Wieringa, Scientific Director, European
Sexuality Resource Center
(The Netherlands)
Sri Agustine,
KPI (Indonesia)
Abha Bhaiya,
Program Director, Jagori (India) |
Room:
516-A
Language:
English
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
LGBT
Human Rights in Africa |
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The
Situation of Black LGBTs from an International
Perspective: From Decriminalisation to Marriage
What are the conditions
for Black LGBTs at the national level? International?
Is it possible to envision or even talk about
coming out at these different levels? What
is the process? How is it perceived in countries
where homosexuality is still considered a
crime (the case in Cameroon), or in countries
where homosexuality isn’t
a crime but where the taboos of society prohibit
the development of sexual diversity (the case
of the Ivory Coast)? Finally, what happens
to Black LGBTS of African or Caribbean origin
once they are outside of their country? Will
they relish this newfound freedom and take
advantage of what their new country has to
offer? Is coming-out easier for them in these
new conditions?
During this workshop, three activists from
the four countries mentioned above will speak
about their own experiences.
Alexis Musanganya,
President, Arc en Ciel d’Afrique (Rwanda;
Canada)
Idibouo Carlos Toh (Côte d’Ivoire)
Alice Nkom,
Lawyer (Cameroon) |
Room:
511-C
Language:
French |
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
LGBT
HUMAN RIGHTS IN ASIA |
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The
Emergence of the Tongzhi (LGBT) Community in
China
The workshop will address the emergence of
the LGBT community in China. A short documentary
film about lesbians in China will be shown
at the beginning of the workshop.
Dan Zhou,
Lawyer (China)
Bin Xu,
Director, Common language (China)
Chung To,
Chi Heng Foundation (China) |
Room:
513-A
Language:
English
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
LGBT
Human Rights in Asia |
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The
Queer Movement in India
The objective of this workshop
is to show how the Indian queer movement
has struggled to articulate the most effective
and representative language of protest in
India. It seeks to share information, as
well as challenge long-standing assumptions
about sexuality and movements in the global
South. The first part of the workshop will
present an overview of lesbian rights’ organising
in India. Next, speakers will share how the
Power of One can enable an individual to start
an LGBT movement, as it was the case for the
Indian-based organisation, The Humsafar Trust.
The last part of the workshop will be dedicated
to voicing marginalised desire and dialogue,
rights, identities and activism in the LGBT
movement
of India.
Pramada
Menon, Creating Resources for Empowerment
(India)
Shruti Chakravarty,
Humsafar Trust (India)
Ashok Row Kavi,
Humsafar Trust (India)
Sumit Baudh,
AMAN Trust ñ (India) |
Room:
516-E
Language:
English
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
LGBT
HUMAN RIGHTS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND
IN CENTRAL ASIA |
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LGBT
Lived Realities in the Caucasus
Report from a fact-finding mission to three
countries in 2006.
Vanja Hamzic
Maxim Anmeghichean,
Programmes Director, ILGA-Europe (Moldova) |
Room:
512-A
Language:
English
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
LGBT
Human Rights in Latin America |
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LGBT
Human Rights in Mexico and Peru
First, a speaker will feature photography
that illustrates the richness of gay cultural
diversity found in Mexico. Then, a presentation
will discuss three GALF projects implemented
in Peru. Finally, the last speaker will present
research results on elements that help or hinder
the establishment of lesbian identities in
Mexican women.
Antonio Marquet,
Professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
(Mexico)
Violeta Barrientos Silva,
Coordinator, GALF (Peru)
Karla Grazziella Porras Varela,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico, El
Closet de sor Juana (Mexico) |
Room:
513-B
Language:
Spanish
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
LGBT
Human rights in the Muslim and Arab worlds |
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Homosexuality in the Arab World and the Diaspora
This workshop deals with the question of being
homosexual in the Arab World and the Diaspora,
more particularly to be an Arab lesbian or
bisexual in Lebanon and to be an Arab lesbian
or bisexual in the Diaspora. Speakers will
discuss the mentality of the Arab world towards
the questions of sexuality, marriage and traditions,
the different laws criminalising homosexuality
and the lives of homosexuals in this region
of the world. The impact of Helem, the first
LGBTIQ centre in the Arab world, on communities
in the Diasporas will also be discussed. In
conclusion, the workshop will raise the subject
of being an Arab lesbian or bisexual in view
of the obvious contradiction.
Nada
Raphaël,
Coordinator, Helem Montréal (Canada)
Rasha Moumneh,
Board Member, Helem Beyrouth (Lebanon)
Georges Azzi,
National Coordinator, Helem International (Lebanon)
Nancy Chercher (Algeria) |
Room:
515-B
Language:
French
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Global Issues |
| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Globalisation
and Development
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Sexual Diversity within the World Social Forum process: Social Movements Building Global Citizenship and Another World
Historical recount and audiovisual presentation of the WSF process, its objectives and some strategies; the LGBT movement within this process, proposals presented and reception and challenges on them; gaps and opportunities for the LGBT global movement. Generate an open space for debate and sharing ideas, to place the development of inclusive and pluralist ideas and practices within and outside of our movement, equality in speech and in practice, as a fundamental part for generating alternatives to the exclusionary model; to expand analysis and critical thinking, specially concerning neo-liberal globalisation and its interrelations to exclusion for sexual orientation, sexism, racism, classicism and other forms of discrimination.
Zackie Achmat,
Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa)
Célio Golin,
NUANCES (Brazil)
Phumi Mtetwa,
LGBT South-South Dialogue (Ecuador)
Marianela Tovar,
ContraNatura (Venezuela) |
Room:
510-B
Language:
English
French
Spanish
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The
Diverse GLBT Community |
| 14:00
- 15:30 |
LGBT
History |
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LGBTs under the Nazi Regime and Other Dictatorships
This workshop will be presenting
the great intolerances of Occidental societies
towards LGBTs and how this fact has influenced
contemporary history. One part of the workshop will
therefore present the struggle for German and
Austrian compensation for LGBT concentration
camp survivors. It will also present
samples of the art, poetry, music, dance and
films portraying the lives and deaths of LGBT
concentration camp inmates, refugees, and others.
Relating the historic ties, slogans and homophobic
ideologies from Nazi times, through the post-war
decade’s right up to neo Nazi hatred
and violence today in many nations around the
world. This will be done in order to
show that the Occidental approach is not a
universal one.
Bill
Schiller,
Secretary General, ILGCN (Sweden)
Nick Tretter,
Secretary General, ILGCN (USA)
Kurt Krickler,
Board member, ILGA-Europe and EPOA (Austria) |
Room:
512-C
Language:
English |
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The Essential Contribution of Homosexual Persons to Human Societies
In the second part of the workshop, a speaker
will highlight the contribution of LGBT persons
from the rise of the democracy to the abolition
of slavery, passing by their exceptional artistic
contributions, their role inside revolutionary
movements and their capital involvement in
the equalitarian approach currently emerging
for the first time in History. Gays are essential
witnesses and actors for the rise of respect
of the differences. This is an invitation to
confront astonishing historic perspectives
to the negative vision born during the last
occidental civilisation’s period and
the Vatican’s supremacy of the last millennium.
Pierre Valois,
Executive Secretary, Comité de défense
juridique des gais et lesbiennes du Québec (Canada) |
Room:
512-C
Language:
French
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Transgender,
Transexual and Intersexual |
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Being Transgender in Latin America
The results
of a study comprised of five transvestites
and five transgendered men (women who have
become men) will be presented. Thanks to
psychological therapy sessions, the researcher
could identify the stages that the individuals
passed through before constructing their
gender identity. The knowledge of these stages
gave the necessary tools to support groups
so as to create a public policy that protects
LGBT rights, particularly those of Transgenders,
in Columbia today. Another presentation will
analyse the complexity that gender identity
and sexual orientation represent for LGBT
support groups. Then, a speaker will give
a global perspective on transvestite and
transsexual living conditions in contemporary
Argentina, with an accent on the legal situation.
Finally, a presentation will illustrate the
reality in which transvestites, transgenders
and transsexuals live in Latin America. Successful
accomplishments for the members of RED in
18 Latin American countries will be presented.
Marina
Talero Monroy, Psychologist, Trans-ser (Colombia)
Belissa
Andía Pérez,
Member, Instituto Runa-Claveles Rojos (Peru)
Lohana Berkins,
ALITT (Argentina)
Maria Belen Correa,
Coordinator, ATTTA (Argentina; USA)
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Room:
513-D
Language:
Spanish
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- 15:30 |
Issues
of LGTBs of colour |
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Interconnecting Diversity in Revealing a True Sense of Belonging
The workshop will be an
interactive session that follows the model
of particip-action. The workshop will give
an overview of the works of the United Nations
Association in Canada and of their role of
bringing the works of the UN to Canadians.
We will give a brief highlight of such innovative
projects at Sport-in-a-Box, HIV/AIDS: It’s Time to Act, and Healthy
Children, Healthy Communities all of which
take an intriguing look at the Social Determinants
of Health. It is through those mitigating social
factors we can gage possible square roots of
health issues; and how we can promote policy
change to such acting bodies as Canada’s
Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of
the Child in 2009. The purpose will be to create
a discourse regarding each individual’s
sense of belonging and identity and how diverse
identities and affiliations can intersect.
Savannah Baskin,
Project Officer, Sense of Belonging, UNA-Canada
(Canada)
Jason Oliver,
Communications officer, UNA-Canada (Canada)
Shirley Gyles,
Peer Trainer, Champion for Diversity, Diversity
Integration (Canada)
Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay (Canada)
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Room:
512-D
Language:
English
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- 15:30 |
Issues
of older LGBTs |
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Our Future: To Age and Not Return to the Closet
Many people worry about their old age and
LBGT people are no different. The first generation
of openly gay and lesbian people is getting
older. This is an urgent matter: we must establish
the policies and services and support networks
that will fulfill the needs of our reality,
our respective lifestyles, our values, and
our living situations. This concerns us all.
Laurent
McCutcheon, President, Fondation Émergence (Canada)
Jane Barrat,
Secretary General, International Federation
on Ageing (Australia)
Georges Lalande,
President, Conseil des Ainés du Québec (Canada)
Margaret Gillis,
Director, National Advisor Council of Ageing
(Canada) |
Room:
516-D
Language:
English
French
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- 15:30 |
Issues
of class |
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Social Ranks and LGBT Human Rights
The difference that class
makes in same-sex relationships, where there
has been a tendency to suggest that lesbians ‘do things differently’ will
be analysed in this workshop. In seeking to
recognise the plurality of ‘families’,
both the sexual and classed aspects of constructed ‘proper
families’ will be problematised. In the
second part of the workshop, the case of the
class dynamics in the queer movement in India
will be addressed. It will look at the manifestation
of these class-differences through the instrument
of different queer male identities in India.
Finally, the Croatian case relating to social
ranks and LGBT rights and inner conflicts and
controversies will be discussed.
Yvette
Taylor,
School of Geography, University of Newcastle
(United Kingdom)
Alok Gupta,
Alternative Law Forum (India)
Zeljko Blace (Croatia) |
Room:
512-G
Language:
English
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Participation
in Society |
| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Education |
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LGBT Equality: the Role of University Queer Studies Programmes, Teachers' Unions and Teachers
Queer Studies Programmes have begun to emerge
as interdisciplinary programs at universities
in North America. These academic programs have
become focal points for research into Queer people
and they provide students with important tools
during the expressive years of their sexual identity.
This talk will explore the importance of these
programs for research, for students and for the
LGBT community.
Furthermore, a professor will draw on her own
experience of developing anti-homophobia units
for two graduate courses in education, framing
his experience in the context of the recent
work of Martin Mills (2004) who considers the
ways in which homophobia and its counterpart,
misogyny, work to construct normalised notions
of teachers and perpetuate existing gender
regimes within schools.
Finally, a member of the Sexual Orientation and
Gender Identity sub-committee of the Alberta
Teachers Association will center on what the
ATA is doing to become more involved with LGBT
issues in the classroom.
Bruce M. Hicks,
Chair of the Board, Lambda Foundation (Canada)
Neil Boyden,
Member of the SO&GI, Alberta Teachers Association (Canada)
Rosonna Tite,
Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland
(Canada)
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Room:
513-E
Language:
English
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Health
care and other services |
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LGBT Access to Health Care and Blood Donation: Brazil and Mexico
The main objective of the first part of the
workshop will be to share the experiences of
a heterosexual institution that transformed
into that of an LGBT institution so as to provide
sexual and reproductive health services to
young Mexican LGBTs, with an emphasis on the
process. Questions such as how an institution
can evaluate institutionality as a tool will
be addressed. The second part of the workshop
will be about homoaffectivity and blood donation
in the Brazilian context.
Lorena Santos,
National Youth, Coordinator, Gente Joven Program,
Mexfam (Mexico)
Conrado da Rosa,
Law Student, Ritter dos Reis University (Brazil) |
Room:
521-A
Language:
Spanish
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| 14:00
- 15:30 |
Parenting |
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Adoption by LGBT Individuals and Same-Sex Couples in Québec and France
This workshop will discuss
the issue of adoption into same-sex families
in Québec. How
is the law put into practice when it learly
states that two adults can adopt a child together?
The aspect of prejudices surrounding homosexual
adoption, principally by males, will be discussed.
In France, the siuation is different: adoption
is limited to married couples of different
sexes. The administrative authorities have
the right to refuse an adoption application
made by an openly lesbian or gay individual.
The question of adoption by an openly lesbian
or gay individual is presently before the
Grand Chamber (17 judges) of the European
Court of Human Rights, is the case of E.B.
versus France.
Yvan Lapointe,
General Manager, CGLQ, (Canada)
Robert Wintemute, Law Professor,
King’s
College London (United Kingdom)
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Room:
513-F
Language:
French
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Recognition
of same-sex couples |
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Legal Recognition and Free Movement for Same-Sex Couples in Europe
This workshop will be dedicated to practical
and legal obstacles for married same-sex couples
to move freely within Europe. It will therefore
aim to provide its participants with important
knowledge on European legal acts and case law
that have recognised that LGBT persons have
the right to enforce respect for their fundamental
rights from other private parties. It will
also present an examination of the impact of
selected institutional and socio-political
factors on state-level policymaking regarding
same-sex marriage. Specifically, it will scrutinise
the events that unfolded in Hawaii, Vermont,
Connecticut, and Massachusetts in comparative
perspective in an attempt to explain the states’ disparate
same-sex marriage policy outcomes.
Kurt Krickler,
Board member, ILGA-Europe and EPOA (Austria)
Kees Waaldijk,
Professor, Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands)
Nuno Ferreira,
Doctoral Researcher, Centre of European Law
and Politics (Germany)
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Room:
512-E
Language:
English
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| 14:00
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Recognition
of same-sex couples
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Marriage and Joint Adoption in Spain: An Example for Latin America?
In 2005,
the Spanish Parliament passed legislation amending
the Civil Code to allow same-sex couples equal
access to civil marriage, including the right
of a married couple to adopt a child jointly.
How did this reform come about, in a country
that many people still perceive as conservative
and dominated by the Roman Catholic Church?
What are the practical consequences of the
reform? Do married same-sex couples enjoy 100%
of the rights of married different-sex couples?
Or are there any exceptions, such as in relation
to international adoption or the “presumption
of paternity”? Must the spouses be
of Spanish nationality? Will the Constitutional
Court uphold the law as consistent with the Spanish
Constitution? Two lawyers from Spain will discuss
these questions and others. They, and Conference
participants from Latin America attending the
workshop, will also
consider whether the Spanish example will be
seen as persuasive, and will increase support
for proposals for legal recognition of same-sex
couples in Latin American countries.
Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni,
Judge, Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
(Argentina)
Gerardo Vizmanos,
Lawyer (Spain)
Francesc Jaurena Salas,
Lawyer (Spain) |
Room:
510-C
Language:
English
French
Spanish |
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| 14:00
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Employment,
Workplace and Trade Unions
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Targeting
the ‘Corporate’ LGBT Business Case
Potential Within the Global Market : The Experiences
of ING, a Global Financial Institution
ING’s
experience as a large international corporation,
and how we are dealing with LGBT issues will
be a valuable and, we believe, an interesting
topic for conference participants, most of
who work for or buy the products and services
of large corporations.
With
the presence of high-level executives from
ING, we hope to provide a unique perspective
of the issues that confront large corporations
in their dealings with LGBT topics. This discussion
will give practical examples of the formation
of “Gala”,
ING’s LGBT employee association, and
will examine how ING is currently viewing the
large, yet sometimes difficult to target LGBT
markets around the world. It will also cover
the pros and cons of ‘mainstreaming’ the
relationship between business and the LGBT
world.
Tom Waldron,
Head of ING Americas, HR and Communications,
Community Relations and USFS Corporate Marketing
David Pollard,
Head of European Affairs ING Group and Chairman
of GALA ING GLBT Employee Association (Gala) |
Room:
516-C
Language:
English
French
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