Learning from the silence: an exploratory study of the status, rights and lived experience of hidden LGBTIQ+ individuals and communities
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Simpson, Ella 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5561-4606
(2023)
Learning from the silence: an exploratory study of the status, rights and lived experience of hidden LGBTIQ+ individuals and communities.
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UN Women.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
A confidential exploratory report, commissioned by UN Women, investigating the status, rights and lived experience of hidden LGBTIQ+ communities in a specific MENA country. The report focuses on the health and wellbeing of these communities. It provides a comprehensive literature review of policy in the areas of law, protection services and healthcare and conducts interviews with key figures in local and international women's and human rights organisations. Interviews are also conducted with LGBTIQ+ individuals and informal support organisers. The report finds minimal state and official support for these communities, who are criminalised and pathologised, but a hidden network of informal support for LGBTIQ+ individuals. Unsurprisingly, there is a great deal of fear and danger experienced by those who identify or are identified as LGBTIQ+. The report concludes with 14 recommendations, framed around rapid intervention, policy and decision making and community outreach and awareness. Based on a needs-based (as opposed to a rights-based) approach, the key recommendation is for the creation of a pilot safe space, able to provide physical refuge to those in crisis; social space to address emotional wellbeing and psychological space to address trauma. The report was accepted in full by UN Women.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Report) |
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| Additional Information: | This is a confidential report. I have not uploaded a copy to GALA, but will do so if you can give me assurances that there will be a strict embargo on the work. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | LGBTIQ+, MENA, Human Rights, Health and Wellbeing |
| Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) |
| Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: | Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Law & Criminology (LAC) Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences |
| Last Modified: | 05 May 2023 07:13 |
| URI: | http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/42032 |
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