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Recover Better for Human Rights Day 2020

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Brandon Kalyan

This year’s Human Rights Day theme relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to build back better by ensuring Human Rights are central to recovery efforts. We will reach our common global goals only if we are able to create equal opportunities for all, address the failures exposed and exploited by COVID-19, and apply human rights standards to tackle entrenched, systematic, and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination. 10 December is an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of…

Womantra hosted a public sensitization installation entitled ‘Rights Deconstructed’. The project offered an interactive and educational breakdown of the national policy on gender and development. It is important to note that this policy has been shelved for the past 18 years.We at SLF supports WOMANTRA in recognizing the gaps and flaws in the policy and the recommendations made to ensure inclusivity and respect for #humanRights. The six themes highlighted were: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Status, Immigration Status, Employment Status,…

Proud to “B” in the LGBT

Posted on September 23, 2017 by Earl Edmund

Today, we celebrate Bisexual Visibility Day. First observed in 1999, September 23rd has since been marked around the world as a day of celebration for bisexual visibility and pride. It was the brainchild of Wendy Curry, Michael Page, and Gigi Raven Wilbur, three United States bisexual rights activists. People individually and collectively celebrate bisexual pride and awareness in many ways, including parties, flag-flying, workshops, film screenings and social cyber events. Bisexual men and women still continue to face stigmatization, prejudice…

The UWI and Civil Society organisations build “A Sexual Culture of Justice” through transformative approaches to partner violence, homophobia, bullying and policing The University of the West indies (The UWI) and its partner organisations have been awarded a Human Rights Grant from the European Union to carry out a project entitled, “A Sexual Culture of Justice: Strengthening LGBTQI & GBV Partnerships, Capacity & Efficacy to Promote & Protect Rights in Trinidad & Tobago”. This project is a new community-university collaboration…

Show Your Colours – Celebrating IDAHOBIT

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Jeremy - SLF

The freedom to be yourself is a very special right that everyone – indeed, everyone – is entitled to. Today, we celebrate that freedom to be yourself, regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, faith, beliefs and gender or sexual identity. Today, we give everyone a real chance to flourish. Today, we embrace difference and say NO to any and all forms of discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) community. Today, we celebrate the International Day Against…

Finding an Equal Place – Model United Nations 2017

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Jeremy - SLF

One of the flagship projects of the Rotary Club of Central Port of Spain (RCCPOS) is the annual hosting of the Model United Nations (MUN). This year, the 20th installment of the MUN was held on March 18-19 2017 at the Hilton Trinidad Hotel and was attended by 120 students from Trinidad, Tobago, Suriname, St Lucia, Guyana and Barbados. The mission of the MUN is to foster a constructive forum for young people to have open dialogue on complex global…

Recover Better for Human Rights Day 2020

Tag Archives: Human Rights

Recover Better for Human Rights Day 2020

Rights Deconstructed: National Policy on Gender and Development

Proud to “B” in the LGBT

MEDIA RELEASE – A Sexual Culture of Justice Project

Show Your Colours – Celebrating IDAHOBIT

Finding an Equal Place – Model United Nations 2017

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