Envisioning Global LGBT Rights

Out In Law is pleased to host a series of speakers on fostering LGBT rights worldwide and the Envisioning Global LGBT Rights Project. Envisioning Global LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Human Rights is an international project that will foster research links between Canada and the global south. The project will explore the impact of laws that criminalize sexual orientation and gender identity, the ways in which LGBT and human rights groups are organizing to resist this criminalization, and the implications for human rights policy formation, social services, and immigration and refugee policies. Envisioning will capture and contribute to history-in-the-making of distinct but linked struggles at a key moment of national and global change. The project brings together a strategic alliance of partners with proven capacity in international LGBT human rights work with grass roots partners in Canada, India, East Africa, Southern Africa, and the Caribbean. The work will combine documentary and participatory video with qualitative interviewing, focus groups, legal data research and analysis and a limited use of surveys, to make a unique contribution to documenting and analyzing criminalization, asylum and resistance to criminalization within and beyond regions.

For more information, please contact robert.hares@utoronto.ca