SEXUAL AND GENDER DIVERSITY IN THE NEW STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

Date: 09/11/2021

Host

Sex og Politikk (IPPF Norway) and IPPF Sexual and Gender Diversity (SGD) Centre

Summary

The IPPF Sexual and Gender Diversity (SDG) Centre is inviting you to join us in discussing the low profile of sexuality and gender diversity in the current IPPF strategy. How to ensure that the sexual rights of all people, including sexual and gender minorities are included in the strategy. We have invited renowned LGBTI activists and MAs with solid experience in implementing SGD programmes to challenge us on how this can be done.

Recommended listening before the roundtable IPPF at WorldPride 2021.

Registration

https://weareinnovision.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_l038dUVjS2mKWAnzr7D3DA

Date and Time

Tuesday 9th November – 7am London/Tunis

Languages

Interpretation will be available in Arabic French, English and Spanish

Moderator

Tor-Hugne Olsen is managing the IPPF centre on sexuality and gender diversity. He has for the past 6 years been the Executive Director of IPPF’s member association in Norway: Sex og Politikk. He has a background working on human rights and development, including for Amnesty International where he served their first global committee advising on LGBTI issues. He has been part of the Norwegian LGBTI movement for more than 30 years.

Roundtable Participants

Noelene Nabulivou, Director of DIVA for Equality, Convenor, Women Defend Commons Network, Pacific Feminist Activist.

Noelene is a feminist grassroots organiser, educator, activist and advocate for marginalised, disenfranchised women and gender non-binary people everywhere, working for development justice and human rights for all in Fiji, the Pacific and globally for over 35 years. As the political advisor for Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality, Noelene is part of a collective effortt led by LBT women and gender non-binary people to ensure justice for all Pacific women, including those deprived of socio-economic benefits due to their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sex characteristics, poverty, location in urban poor, rural and maritime areas, disabilities, ethnicity, and more. Noelene works with Pacific women and local communities in all their diversities through collectives, Hubs, networks, coalitions and social movements, and with governments, UN and development agencies. 

DIVA for Equality undertakes grassroots work as well as co-convening several networks and coalitions including the ‘Women Defend Commons Network’, Pacific Partnership on Gender, CC aand Sustainable Development, Pacific Feminist SRHR Coalition, Pacific Informal CSW Network, etc.  DIVA is a CSO Co-lead of the new global ‘Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice’ with Governments, UN agencies and other CSOs. 

Dr. Chivorn Var is the Executive Director of RHAC; he has a robust record of successful engagement with government stakeholders, communities, vulnerable groups and LGBTIQ people. Dr. Var is among the first Cambodians to start and expand family planning and youth sexual and reproductive health program in Cambodia, and has introduced innovative approaches in addressing women and child health in the community; he has led and participated in numerous researches in SRHR, and contributed to scientific knowledge through publication of important topics on maternal and newborn health.

Dean Tangata born and raised in the Cook Islands. They have been a Volunteer and Youth Peer Educator since they were 15 years old, almost 11 years in total. During their time as a volunteer, they have represented young people of the Cook Islands to the IPPF Youth Forum for 3 consecutive years as the Youth Representative, to the Small Island Developing States Conferences and most recently to the ICPD+25 Summit in Nairobi. They have been the Youth Representative to the Governing Board of CIFWA and now sits on the Governing Board and mentor the new representatives. They are a registered nurse and uses their knowledge and practice to further SRHR for young people and vulnerable populations of their island paradise. Young People are the Future, let us pave their way.

Ryan Joseph Figueiredo is the founder and Executive Director of Equal Asia Foundation – a regional LGBTIQ+ non-profit think-tank and innovations incubator with offices in Amsterdam and Bangkok. Equal AF’s work is focused on future scoping and future-proofing around issues such as ageing, climate change, mental health, and financial citizenship for LGBTIQ+ communities in Asia. Ryan has worked in the non-profit and management consulting space for over 18 years and is a formerly displaced person. At Equal AF, Ryan leads regional and national multi-specialisation initiatives that address some of the deep-seated inequities in the LGBTIQ+ movement. In 2018, Ryan was selected as one of the Human Rights Campaigns Global Innovators. In 2019, Thomson Reuters Foundation named him a Global Changemaker for his work. In 2020, he was recognised as a Global Change accelerator by the Resource Alliance. Ryan sits on a number of International LGBTIQ+ advisory and mentorship groups. Ryan is a formerly displaced person and is now deputy chair of the women, gender and diversity working group of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network. He is also a board director of the Forcibly Displaced People Network in Australia. He is an alumnus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and has trained in clinical trials at the London School of Tropical Medicine, and in population ageing at the University of Oxford.