From the UN

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COVID19: Impact on LGBTIQ Adolescents and Youth in Southeast Asia, survey

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This survey is for LGBTIQ young people living in East and Southeast Asia, and is run by Youth Voices Count, Equal Asia Foundation and Prism Chat in collaboration with UNICEF Regional Office for East Asia and Pacific.

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Call for submissions to the UN on rape as a grave and systematic human rights violation and gender-based violence against women

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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Dubravka Šimonović, in her thematic report to be presented to the UN General Assembly in September 2020 will address States’ responsibility to criminalize and prosecute rape as a grave and systematic human rights violation and gender based violence against women, in line with international human rights standards.

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UN rights experts fear Uganda is using COVID-19 emergency powers to target LGBT people

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UN experts are alarmed that Uganda could be using COVID-19 emergency laws to target gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and urged the government to strictly limit the use of emergency power to public health issues.

UN: Targeted actions needed to protect LGBTI people amid pandemic – Bachelet

States need to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people do not face discrimination or fear retribution for seeking healthcare amid the COVID-19 crisis, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Friday, as the UN Human Rights Office published a new guidance note for States and other stakeholders on COVID-19 and the human rights of LGBTI people.

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UN: Poland urged not to criminalise sex education or tighten access to abortion

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Poland must reject two bills before parliament one of which could be used to make sexuality education of children an offence punishable by jail and the other would further restrict access to safe and legal termination of pregnancy, say UN human rights experts*.

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World Health Organization guidance on abortion

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Every woman has the recognized human right to decide freely and responsibly without coercion and violence the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health (ICPD 1994).