Coalition of African

The Coalition is committed to raising consciousness amongst and strengthening activism and leadership of lesbian and bisexual women and transdiverse people.

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and now its just forward to march for the SOGI panel...with much work between now and then...goodbye for now to the human rights council..,,

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the resolution on maternal mortality, morbidiy and human rights was adopted by consensus! 91 co sponsors! ...

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and similar for south africas global call against racism, xenophobia and other forms of discrmnation. why do the europeans seem scared?...

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an eventful day. people of african decent. european union resistence to some part of the work that needs doing.whats up?xenophobia?...

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at 11 am SA sponsored meeting to discuss 'The Mandate of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Decent'..more in a bit

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comment from a colleague from columbia:that must be the only pair of converse in the entire UN building.resist, mobilise, organise! ;)...

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menu for today-SA panel on race,negotiations on anti racism resln,resln on multi cultural societies and connecting with civicus...

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off to say goodnight to the rats... and eat salmon biryani... and contemplate change and feminism and spirituality and simplicity...

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what are the imperatives for action between now and march 2012. what is it at a national level, regional level that we should be doing?....

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we have a great SOGI resln! we have a great or good enough SOGI report in the making.and we have a great panel waiting to happen.and so?...

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eish! feeling so small and wonderful and grateful and humble. the world is a fucked up place! and just wonderful!!!...

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SA Ambassador Minty closing-thank you for your kindness.this issue is constitutes a constitutional imperative for us..ends...

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;) except theres no naming/shaming but examples of violations!and positive egs are not a compendium but a few ideas of promnising practice..

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how will this report provide examples whilst not using the report for naming and shaming states.and what about positive egs?both in there..

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swedish delegation Q-why did the report writers exclude NGOs as source for the report...trying to build consensus and reduce contention..

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Denmark-can we try to bring cross fertilisation between this work and the work on anti racism...?

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more congratulations to SA ;) for leadership on SOGI Resolution.US Q-what will happen between publishing of report and the march panel?

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a set of recommendations have been developed-largely a collation of recommendations already in the body of knowledge within UN documents..

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report outlines three main themes-1.violence,2.discrminatory laws and 3.discriminatory practices.relied on UN mandated documents...

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this study has been done under huge time pressure.has to be ready early October to go through the translation process and be ready mid Dec..