Results List
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The Other Foundation Trust
$4,551,328
Resource type: Grantee
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Resilience amidst adversity: Being gay and African in the new century
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies and the OTHER Foundation
Commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies and the OTHER Foundation, this report gives an overview of what it means to be gay and African in the early part of the 21st century. The report shows that homophobia in Africa is rife – expressed through legislation that criminalises…
Resource type: Case Study
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Groups Call For Human Rights Act Amendment
Source: Bernews
The Centre for Justice in collaboration with Amnesty International Bermuda, the Human Rights Commission,Rainbow Alliance of Bermuda, The Vision Ministry and Two Words and a Comma have produced a booklet calling on the new government to amend the Human Rights Act to include protection from…
Resource type: News
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Republic of Ireland's Chief Justice launches guides on civil partnerships and cohabiting
Source: The Irish Times
This article was originally published on 21 December 2012.By Fiona GartlandTwo guides to civil partnership and cohabitation will provide valuable information for gay, lesbian and bisexual people as well as for legal practitioners, Chief Justice Mrs Justice Susan Denham said last night. She was launching…
Resource type: News
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Civil Partnership and Ireland: How a Minority Achieved a Majority
Source: Clear Thinking Communications & Center for Evaluation Innovation
In 2010, Ireland enacted some of the most far-reaching legal protections for gay and lesbian couples in the world. The case study describes the story of how this historic legislation gained passage in a largely Catholic country that just 16 years earlier had decriminalised homosexual…
Resource type: Research Report
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Civil Partnership a Cross-Country Success as Every County Celebrates
Source: Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN)
By the end of September, 862 Civil Partnerships had already taken place. That's an average of two civil partnerships every day since they first became publicly available in April 2011. So, where are there most lesbian and gay civil partners across the country? Dublin 8…
Resource type: News
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Two Civil Partnership Ceremonies Conducted on Average Each Day
Source: Irish Times
By Pamela DuncanAn average of two civil partnership ceremonies have taken place per day since their introduction last year, with a total of 862 ceremonies registered between April 2011 and September 2012.In that time period, 1,724 lesbian and gay people from 61 countries entered into…
Resource type: News
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ANC Meeting with LGBTI
Source: African National Congress
A delegation of the African National Congress led by the Secretary General Comrade Gwede Mantashe, met representatives of the Lesbian, Gays, Transgender, Bisexual and Intersex (LGBTI) persons today (08 August 8, 2012) at the ANC Head Quarters in Johannesburg. The meeting was requested by the…
Resource type: News
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RTÉ One Investigates Same Sex Marriage Debate in the Republic of Ireland
Source: RTÉ One Prime Time
Ireland's RTÉ One Prime Time investigates same sex marriage in the Republic of Ireland. This segment features Atlantic grantee Marriage Equality.> Click to view the video (marriage equality segment starts at 22:46)
Resource type: News
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Gay asylum seekers speak of discrimination in South Africa
Source: AFP
CAPE TOWN — Gay African asylum seekers struggle to find work and battle homophobic discrimination in South Africa, the continent's only nation to allow same-sex marriage, a report showed Tuesday.Interviews with 25 Africans by a Cape Town NGO found that 90 percent were jobless and…
Resource type: News