Global Gender Issues

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Websites - General

• Human Rights Watch Country Profiles: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (HRW)

• Gender, Equity, Human Rights (World Health Organization)

• Sexual Diversity Gender Identity Rights Policy FINAL JAN 2016 (OXFAM)

• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues in Development (SIDA 2005)

• Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in relation to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Sex Characteristics (Asia Pacific Forum)

• How people around the world view gender equality in their countries (Pew Research Center)

• 7 charts that show gender inequality around the world (World Economic Forum)

• Gender stereotypes are destroying girls, and they're killing boys

Women & Girls | Men & Boys

• Women of the World, unite! (UN interactive timeline)

• Advancing gender equality and empowering women and girls (Govt of Canada)

• Gender Equality Around the World (Status of Women Canada)

• Canada Helping Girls and Women Around the World (Govt of Canada)

Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (The World Bank)

• The global context for LGBT people (Stonewall.org)

• Explainer: the state of LGBT rights today (World Economic Forum)

• State-Sponsored Homophobia Report (ilga.org)

• Finding Moonlight: A Black queer counter-archive

• Human Rights Watch Country Profiles: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

• A Global Outlook on LGBTI Social Exclusion through 2030 (Inter-Agency Regional Analysts Network (IARAN)

• Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

"In the present report, the Independent Expert examines how discriminatory laws and sociocultural norms continue to marginalize and exclude lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender-diverse persons from education, health care, housing, employment and occupation, and other sectors."

• A Map of Gender-Diverse Cultures (Independent Lens PBS)

• History of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Social Movements

Databases

• • Global Issues in Context

  • Canadian Points of View Reference Centre

  • Canadian Reference Centre

  • Advanced Placement Source

  • Directory of Open Access Journals

  • Gale eBooks

• JSTOR (an online library of journals, academic ebooks, and primary sources) (*use TPL card)

  • CHAPTER 2: TEACHING TRANSGENDER ISSUES: Global Social Movements Based on Gender Identity, Jillian Todd Weiss