Essays about: "Queer Rights"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 46 essays containing the words Queer Rights.
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1. Gender and sexual minorities’ right to recognition: A paper victory? With a focus on Nepal, Bangladesh, and India
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Gender and sexual minority groups in Nepal, Bangladesh, and India have been systematically discriminated against in their States and ignored by the international community, for decades. While the three States have made progress concerning legal gender recognition, including recognizing a third gender on specific documents such as passports or identification cards, issues remain in ensuring equality in education, employment, and social participation. READ MORE
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2. Sterilization in 2023 : A Historical Analysis of LGBTQIA+ Rights in the Nordic Countries
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis aims to generate a model to answer why there is a notable gap in legislative action with regards to expanding and modernizing LGBTQIA+ rights between Sweden and Denmark and the other Nordic countries, groups described by Jens Rydström as the Progressive Core and Conservative Periphery respectively. In order to do so, there is an analysis of the applicability of Rydström’s model to legislative history. READ MORE
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3. Legal rights for queer people in Japan: How the LGBT Understanding Promotion Bill was shelved in 2021
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för japanskaAbstract : The fight for equal rights for LGBTQ+ people in Japan has in recent years led to efforts to enact a law to promote understanding. After intense debates and revisions in the spring of 2021, the bill was shelved just before the Olympics, despite pressure from national and international organizations such as the International Olympic Committee. READ MORE
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4. Antigender in 280 characters
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : In the past years, antigenderism has become a growing coalition that has moved from being a monopoly of the Vatican to being picked up by Catholic associations and politicians, quickly reaching the general public. The word “gender” has become an empty signifier to attack queer and feminist agendas, sexual and reproductive rights but also gender studies scholars and courses. READ MORE
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5. Queer Sex Education - A Missed Opportunity : A project about the queer exclusivity in the old Swedish sex education curriculum
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)Abstract : With this project I want to know how the earlier sex education has affected queer peoples experiences with sex and start a discussion of the new sexual education curriculum and if the changes to the curriculum were too late or not. My goal is to get the new generation of queer people to not forget to keep fighting for the rights that we got and to show everyone outside of the queer community the exclusivity that we have faced for years within a topic not a lot of people are talking about. READ MORE