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Human Rights Day 2024 | LGBTQ+ Legal Challenges: Global Perspectives and Pro Bono Solutions
Join the Vance Center for this special event to mark Human Rights Day 2024!
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The LGBTQ+ community continues to face significant legal challenges worldwide. Despite progress in some regions, many countries still enforce and pass laws that criminalize same-sex relationships and gender expression, restrict freedom of expression, and discriminate against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. These laws not only violate fundamental human rights but also perpetuate stigma, discrimination, and violence against LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Vance Center’s Human Rights and Access to Justice Program has worked on a number of projects to highlight and provide legal support to organizations focusing on issues affecting LGBTQ+ persons, with a special focus on laws and policies that can increase inequality and discrimination against these groups. These projects range from working with a network of lawyers to secure the right to marriage equality in countries in Latin America to providing guidance on gender-affirming health care in dozens of jurisdictions around the world.
Join us to learn more about the impact and lessons drawn from these projects, and hear from panelists working on other critical areas of LGBTQ+ rights.
LGBTQ+ Legal Challenges: Global Perspectives and Pro Bono Solutions
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Location: Virtual on Zoom
Speakers
Special Address: Graeme Reid, UN Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
Panelists
- Rasha Younes, Interim Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program, Human Rights Watch
- Mario Torrico & Maya Cohen, Associates, ArentFox Schiff
- Wilmer Gonzalez Colina, Human Rights Attorney
- Micheal Ighodaro, Executive Director, Global Black Gay Men Connect (GBGMC)
- Dr. Meredithe McNamara, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and specialist in Adolescent Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
- Moderator: Pedro Reyes, Partner, Baker McKenzie and Vance Center Committee member
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