Madam President, Action Canada makes this statement on behalf of the Sexual Rights Initiative and the Coalition of African Lesbians. As pointed out in the report of the Special Rapporteur…
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30Jun 20
Pride: Imagining Community
Many credit the Stonewall Riots, which took place from 28 June - 3 July 1969 as the beginning of the LGBTI movement’s public fight to end discrimination on the basis of…
26Jun 20
Press release: UN Human Rights Council Resolution on racial discrimination and police brutality
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA On 17 and 18 June 2020 the United Nations Human Rights Council held an Urgent Debate, at the request of the Africa Group, on racial discrimination and…
18Jun 20
43rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Urgent Debate on racism / police violence
17 June 2020 Thank you Mr President, Action Canada makes this statement on behalf of the Sexual Rights Initiative and the Coalition of African Lesbians. Black Lives Matter. We make…
18Jun 20
In honour of Kirvan Fortuin and Sarah Hegazy
‘This country buries us before we are born. Calls us by our obituaries before it calls us by our names’ - Koleka Putuma The current global moment has seen Black…
29May 20
COVID-19: This is how we build movements
Welcome to a small exercise in introspection. As we adjust and wrap our hearts, minds and spirits around what it means to be living through a global pandemic as African…