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Published May 22, 2021, 12:37 PM
Senator Grace Poe is pushing the passage of a bill that would declare a day in the month May as “National Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia and Phobias for Persons of Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or Expression or Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC)”.
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In the Senate Bill No. 2213 she filed recently, Poe sought the recognition of the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBT+) community on May 17 of every year in the Philippines.
It was on May 17, 1990 that the World Health Organization (WHO) declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder, after decades of campaign from activists, doctors and medical practitioners.
The Only Way is Up: Monitoring and Encouraging Diverse SOGIESC Inclusion in the Humanitarian and DRR Sectors
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Discrimination, violence and exclusion is experienced by people with diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Expressions, and Sex Characteristics (aka LGBTIQ+ people) before, during and after disasters and conflict.
The manifestations are often many and profound, undermining people’s potential to develop resilient and dignified lives, and to survive and recover from shocks. This discrimination, violence and exclusion is maintained by deeply rooted norms at the heart of societal laws, institutions and practices, shaping the lives of people with diverse SOGIESC well before they ever interact with the humanitarian system, or with disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives. However this report, as part of an emerging body of literature, also shows that the humanitarian and DRR systems often fail to acknowledge or address the discrimination, violence and exclu