International day against homophobia biphobia and transphobia là gì năm 2024

Mentioning this year’s theme in a statement to mark the day, Together Always: United in Diversity, the UN chief called on leaders ‘to speak with one voice” to eliminate stigma and discrimination, that result in sometimes deadly attacks targeting LGBTQI+ communities.

The Secretary-General showed his deep concern over the levels of violence directed towards LGBTQI+ people and how those communities are still vulnerable to multiple forms of attack.

“As we mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, we face a stark fact. In every corner of the world, LGBTQI+ people continue to face violence, persecution, hate speech, injustice, and even outright murder,” said the UN chief.

Ending criminalization

He called on Member States to stop criminalization of LGBTQI+ people around the world and punishing them for “simply being who they are.”

He said each assault on a LGBTQI+ person was an assault on human rights:

“I renew my call to all Member States to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and end the criminalization of consensual same-sex relations and transgender people. Being yourself should never be a crime,” said Mr. Guterres.

Calling on States

In a statement on Tuesday, a group of independent human rights experts on Tuesday called on Member States to address racism and stigma against LGBTQI+ people in a joint statement. They called on States to adopt measures to end the various forms of violence and discrimination directed against the community.

“We call on States to uphold the inherent dignity of all persons, without any distinction, by adopting measures to eradicate racial discrimination, exclusion, intolerance, hatred, bigotry, violence, and stigmatisation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender diverse (LGBT) persons,” the human rights experts said.

Racial discrimination

The rights experts also recalled that to end structural violence against LGBTQI+ people, States must take an intersectional approach and consider how different social identities contribute to how communities are affected by different forms of discrimination.

“Racialization, ethnicity, age, colour, disability, national and residential and socio-economic status, expose LGBT persons to different forms of discrimination that affect their ability to enjoy their human rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction of any kind.

“To adequately analyse how structural inequalities lead to violence and exposure to risk, it is a must to adopt an intersectional approach. While some people are privileged, most face discrimination and violence, including arbitrary displacement, because of their multiple intersecting identities,” the experts said.

Independent human rights experts and other UN Human Rights Council-appointed rights experts, work on a voluntary and unpaid basis, are not UN staff, and work independently from any government or organisation.

Love, justice, respect, and solidarity

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, pointed out in a statement marking the day, that although some countries have changed discriminatory laws for the better, more needs to be done.

“In the past year alone, four more countries have decriminalized consensual same-sex relations, meaning that in two thirds of the countries in the United Nations, the law doesn't punish people based on who they love.

“Three more countries have improved trans people's access to legal recognition of their gender. Two more countries have set up protections for the physical integrity of intersex children. Still, in many countries LGBTIQ+ people are facing unacceptable pushbacks to their rights,” Mr. Türk added.

“Love, justice, respect and equality will win,” he declared, calling on the power of solidarity to stop hate and discrimination against LGBTQI+ people.

“We need your help. Solidarity means all of us. We all need to work in solidarity with LGBTIQ+ activists and their communities everywhere to advance equality and rights.”

We recognize today as the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia, and mark the theme for this year: “Together always: United in diversity”. This is a day to celebrate the diversity of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) across humanity. It is also a day for a reckoning with the related violence, discrimination and stigmatization that still cause profound, preventable suffering among these communities. Such violations harm us all as we seek to accelerate achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and a world united under a common agenda of fully lived human rights.

Date: Wednesday, 17 May 2023

We seek a world where people with diverse SOGIESC can form their identities and live freely in love, respect, and safety. We celebrate the 20 countries in which legal gender recognition based on self-determination is a reality, as well as the 58 countries where laws protect people from hate crimes on the grounds of their sexual orientation.

However, criminalizing laws remain a reality in one-third of all countries and across the world. LGBTIQ+* people often face a lived reality of extreme discrimination, from access to health, education and social services, to safe housing, decent work and sustainable livelihoods, to safe spaces and opportunities for political participation and community building, and safe pathways out of humanitarian and conflict/post-conflict contexts, especially for those fleeing persecution and forcibly displaced. While online spaces are crucial for LGBTIQ+ people to access information, organize and build communities, violence in digital contexts is an intensifying issue, and lesbian, bisexual and transgender women are often at greater risk.

We embrace the long-standing, rich diversity of gender identities and expressions across cultures and call for collective action, avoiding fragmentation, in our quest for gender equality and the equal enjoyment of human rights for all.

UN Women is proud to be part of the forthcoming UN system-wide strategy and guidance on protection from violence and discrimination based on SOGIESC. We stand ready to support action towards LGBTIQ+ equality from within the UN system. Our work with the Generation Equality Forum Action Coalitions on Gender-based Violence and on Bodily Autonomy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights aims to mobilize a violence-free world for people of all genders and to ensure that they, in all their diversity, are empowered to realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights and make autonomous decisions about their bodies free from coercion, violence, and discrimination.

We at UN Women stand together, united in diversity with LGBTIQ+ people across the world. Our communities are stronger, the impacts of our work are more meaningful, and our collective progress greater, when we support and take care of one another.

* This is an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people, and people who use other terms or none to describe their sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). UN Women also uses the term “people with diverse SOGIESC” where appropriate in global contexts, while respecting their distinctions. We note that neither term is universally applicable nor reflects the full diversity of sexual and gender formations, practices and identities that exist, that terms and their usage are constantly evolving, and that SOGIESC applies to all people. In practice, various culturally, linguistically, and context-specific terms may be used, where appropriate.

Ngày 17 tháng 5 là ngày gì của LGBT?

Ngày 17/5 hàng năm là ngày thế giới lên tiếng chống lại nạn kỳ thị và phân biệt đối xử với người thuộc cộng đồng song tính, đồng tính và chuyển giới (LGBT) bằng nhiều hành động ý nghĩa.

Tại sao không nên kì thi LGBT?

Vì sao không nên kỳ thị LGBT? Sự phân biệt đối xử với cộng đồng LGBT có thể trở thành một nỗi ám ảnh họ, dẫn đến làm gia tăng mức độ stress, trầm cảm, ảnh hưởng đến sự tiếp cận các dịch vụ của người bị kỳ thị, cũng như tăng tần suất bạo lực.

Việt Nam có bao nhiêu người LGBT?

Một nghiên cứu khác do tổ chức phi chính phủ CARE thực hiện ước tính Việt Nam có khoảng 50-125 ngàn người đồng tính, chiếm khoảng 0,06-0,15% dân số.

LGBT là viết tắt của từ gì?

LGBT là cụm viết tắt lấy các chữ cái đầu của Lesbian (đồng tính nữ), Gay (đồng tính nam), Bisexual (song tính) và Transgender (chuyển giới). Cộng đồng LGBT có những bước phát triển khá nhanh trong những năm gần đây không chỉ trên thế giới mà còn tại Việt Nam.