Critique of ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ in human rights discourse: global queer politics beyond the Yogyakarta Principles

Waites, Matthew

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“…These principles affirm the relevance of applying human rights to sexual orientation and gender identity, addressing the inconsistency and ambiguities that surrounded human rights legislation and providing a clear, legal justification in the 29 principles affirmed. The statement of principles is directed first and foremost at the United Nations, which has been a more difficult venue for LGBTIQ agendas than the EU (Sweibel, 2009;Waites, 2009). Sweibel points out that the UN really only recognized such issues as late as 2006 and, moreover, that much of the institutional opposition within the UN bureaucracy has come from 'right-wing Catholics and fundamentalist Islamic states' (Sweibel, 2009: 25) and others support this analysis of an alliance of primarily patriarchal religious viewpoints expressed by states in their resistance to both LGBTIQ rights and women's reproductive rights and sexual equality in international forums (Chappell, 2006;Hamzic, 2011;Houston, 2012).…”

Section: Muslim Regulation Of Homosexuality At the National And Intermentioning

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Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity

Rahman

2014

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Series Editors: Varun Uberoi, Brunel University, UK; Nasar Meer, University of Northumbria, UK and Tariq Modood, University of Bristol, UK The politics of identity and citizenship has assumed increasing importance as our polities have become significantly more culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse. Different types of scholars, including philosophers, sociologists, political scientists and historians make contributions to this field and this series showcases a variety of innovative contributions to it. Focusing on a range of different countries, and utilizing the insights of different disciplines, the series helps to illuminate an increasingly controversial area of research and titles in it will be of interest to a number of audiences including scholars, students and other interested individuals.

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Section: Muslim Regulation Of Homosexuality At the National And Intermentioning

confidence: 99%

Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity

Rahman

2014

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“…By not drawing on the closed Western identity labels of 'lesbian' or 'gay', and instead using the open concepts sexual orientation and gender identity, the Yogyakarta Principles avoid essentialist homogenising notions. As such, they continue to be the most persuasive and inclusive approach to raising awareness and gaining support for LGBTIQ within an overall human rights framework (Long 2008;Waites 2009). However, because they do not address intersex issues appropriately, they also demonstrate the need to continuously define, refine and enlarge SOGI human rights analytical frameworks and indicators.…”

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Sexual orientation and gender identity in human rights impact assessment

Sauer

Podhora

2013

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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Responding to violations against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people worldwide, in the light of the universality of human rights, this paper demonstrates the need, benefits and opportunities for including sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in human rights impact assessment (HRIA) and related impact assessments. The United Nations legal framework (including the 2011 Resolution on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) and supporting international legal documents such as the Yogyakarta Principles provide the mandate and basis for this paper. The paper develops a typology of documents related to SOGI aspects in HRIA and provides examples of SOGI-centred HRIA approaches, specifically the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill and post-earthquake disaster relief in Haiti. Our findings identify research-practice gaps in modes and technicalities of the pioneer SOGI-centred HRIA cases, and attest to an absence of methodologies, tools and indicators. We call upon impact assessment practitioners to develop and use tools that are inclusive of gays, lesbians and bisexuals as well as transgender and intersex people.

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“…Engagements with the Commonwealth, as will be demonstrated, have become a new central focus of activism in 'global queer politics' which contests the privileged status of heterosexuality, including associated forms of gender and sexuality (Waites, 2009). These engagements can only be analysed by moving beyond a rather reductive division in the theory of sexual politics concerning transnational LGBTI movements.…”

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LGBTI organizations navigating imperial contexts: the Kaleidoscope Trust, the Commonwealth and the need for a decolonizing, intersectional politics

Waites

2017

The Sociological Review

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This article presents the first sustained social analysis of the Kaleidoscope Trust, the UK's leading social movement organization on LGBTI issues internationally, and its engagement with the Commonwealth -particularly through forming The Commonwealth Equality Network, comprising national NGOs. A contribution is made to sociological and critical analysis of transnational LGBTI movements, through argument for a new analytical framework combining the sociology of human rights with a decolonizing, intersectional approach -beyond the division between optimistic theories extending Western LGBTI progressive politics, or pessimistic postcolonial queer analyses. To investigate organizations' strategies leading to the Malta 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the research utilizes sources of data including event observation and website sources, initiating analysis of online environments. The analysis deploys social movement theory to examine how and why Kaleidoscope selected the Commonwealth as a political opportunity structure to engage through strategies of framing and articulation of human rights. Invention of The Commonwealth Equality Network, shaped online and offline by imperial relations between core and periphery, is analysed via transnational public sphere and critical theories and argued to indicate a significant restructuring of global queer politics. It is contended that a consistently decolonizing and intersectional articulation of human rights is needed.

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Critique of ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ in human rights discourse: global queer politics beyond the Yogyakarta Principles

Cited by 116 publications

References 32 publications

Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity

Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity

Sexual orientation and gender identity in human rights impact assessment

LGBTI organizations navigating imperial contexts: the Kaleidoscope Trust, the Commonwealth and the need for a decolonizing, intersectional politics

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