Sexual and Gender Diversity in the new strategic framework

Date: 12/10/2021

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_wlDdgT42QUKN66N5UwrdJw

Date and Time

Tuesday 12th October – 9 am Mexico, 3pm London/Tunis, 4pm Oslo/Brussels 

Languages

Interpretation will be available in Arabic French, English and Spanish

Moderators

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

Florin Buhuceanu is a Romanian activist for sexual and reproductive rights and LGBTI rights and founder of the Museum of Queer History and Culture based in Bucharest. He studied Orthodox Theology and History at the University of Bucharest and has been involved since 1997 with ACCEPT Association in the abolition of anti-gay legislation.

He was involved as board member in the activities of the Center for Legal Resources, the Center for Partnership and Equality, SECS, ECPI, ACCEPT and the European Network on Religion and Belief, and works as advocacy consultant.

Florin is the author of the book “Homoistorii”, editor of the Report “ Traditional Values. Religion and LGBT rights in Eastern Europe” and ”Sexualitate și religie. Tensiuni și controverse în România și Republica Moldova”. He coordinated the exhibition “Queer. Recovered History ”, organized at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in June 2019  and the curatorial project “LGBTI histories in Romania: a struggle for human rights ” supported by the Cultural Management Academy and the EUNIC Network in 2020-2021. He was involved in 2021 in the preparation of the collective exhibition ”Records uncovered: Gay and Lesbian Histories in Central and Southeastern Europe (1945-1999)” organized in Budapest by Blinken OSA and Hatter Archive and Library.

Ivan Cruickshank, Executive Director, Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition. Ivan has been a member of the senior management team at CVCC since 2009 and has extensive experience in the field of HIV which has given him intimate knowledge of the Human Rights and HIV and AIDS landscape as well as the community-based response to development.  He has represented CVCC at the regional and global levels with distinction over the years. 

Currently Ivan serves in several major leadership positions in Jamaica’s HIV response, including Chairing both the Jamaica CCM and the National Technical Working Group for Enabling Environment and Human Rights as well as serving as a member of the Board of Governors of the National Family Planning Board – Sexual Health Agency as well as the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council. In addition, he serves as Chair of the Equality for All Foundation and is a past member of the Boards ofJamaica Network of Seropositives, and the Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network.

Bojan Jovanovski is Executive Director of HERA – Health Education and Research Association since 2006. He has been in the NGO sector for almost 20 years, managing programs in variety sectors, including child rights, humanitarian relief, SRH and sexual rights. As of 2001, he is member of all ministerial task forces responsible in developing the three cumulative National Strategies for HIV prevention and treatment. Bojan has extensive experience in advocacy on abortion rights and HIV prevention for key populations. He is an author of many research papers, including the latest on Accessibility and Feasibility of HIV self-testing among gay man and other men having sex with man. He is also a national trainer for Minimal Package for Sexual and Reproductive Health in humanitarian settings. A passionate sexual rights activist and feminist.

Brandy Rodriguez, Health Navigator, Family Planning Association of Trinidad and Tobago. Brandy is a trans-woman with some 35 years of experience advocating for the rights of the LGBT+ community in local, regional and international fora. As a trans-woman Brandy faces intense stigma and discrimination but, she uses these experiences to improve the lives of those who share similar and worse faiths. Brandy has 20 years of experience as a Human Rights trainer and facilitator. She is a trusted Peer Health Navigator assisting HIV-positive people in particular, to access treatment and care services to achieve adherence. She represents the concerns of the LGBT+ community on a number of Boards and Committees and is well known for implementing beneficiary focused projects alongside her candid contributions to the development of national and regional projects and programs that reach the LGBT+ community as well as help create policies and other key activities to treat with same. Driven by her passion to see a change in the quality of life of the marginalized communities that she represents, in 2017 Brandy founded the Trinidad and Tobago Transgender Coalition (TTTC). It is her hope, that one day soon, the LGBT+ community would be recognized and treated with equity and equality, and share the privilege engrained in the universal declaration of human rights which is meant for all people. 

Marta Royo is Executive Director of Profamilia, Colombia’s longest-standing, non-governmental organisation that provides, protects, and advocates for sexual and reproductive rights and services.

This responsibility has given her the opportunity to help achieve significant political and social transformation aimed towards improving the status of girls and women in Colombia, including, but not limited to: leading legislature on the National Policy on Sexuality and Sexual and Reproductive Rights; making sure these rights are recognised for people with disabilities; eliminating the barriers that prevent women from accessing safe abortions. In this position, she has managed to implement a successful social enterprise model, while working towards making Profamilia a sustainable organization and expanding the social impact of its programs and initiatives.

Juan Diego Rojas Robayo is a social worker with a specialist in intervention and social management and lawyer in training. He takes a gender, differential approach to public policies and human rights of trans people. Juan is a trans man.