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GIN is starting a weekly podcast series for these times of such uncertainty and instability! Each week a sexual and gender minority leader of faith from around the world will offer a prayer or meditation to support us in these troubled times. Click below to listen on Soundcloud.
On September 28th, 2020, the Global Interfaith Network (GIN-SSOGIE) hosted a side event during the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on “The Impact of Faith on LGBTI People During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Fiji and the
For several years, and increasingly so in recent years, there has been a growing politicization of religion(s) and a hijacking of social concepts such as the family, traditional values as well as gender and sexuality within local, regional and international arenas. Such spaces are being
The Human Rights Council (HRC) is an intergovernmental organ of the United Nations system mandated to reinforce the promotion and protection of human rights around the world. It is also mandated to address situations of human rights violations and to make recommendations regarding human rights
GIN co-hosted a side event on Recognition and Respect for Family Diversity in Times of Global Pandemic The international human rights system has for a very long time made strong efforts to protect the family, its individual members, and in all its diversity across history,
We are heading for 6 months of living in limited physical contact with anyone. As the Covid-19 pandemic has spread across the globe at a rapid and relentless pace, the dialogue partners throughout the countries of Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia have been finding ways to
2020 has been hard for many of us, and will no doubt still be as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to expose the pre-existing inequalities which characterise much of the world. But, in the face of this unfolding global catastrophe we know that we need to
