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5-Day Intensive Short Course on Sexual Minority Rights in Africa

Bayer Foundation's Women Empowerment Award 2022

Deadline: 8-Feb-21

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, will host a 5-day intensive short course on Sexual Minority Rights in Africa. This Advanced Human Rights Course is a short course that introduces participants to basic SOGIESC (sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics) concepts and a thematic and geographical exposition of challenges faced by LGBTIQ+ persons in Africa.

This course is designed for people who wish to obtain basic/introductory information, an understanding of the terminology, and a general appreciation of the problems faced by LGBTIQ+ persons in realizing basic human rights in many African societies. Participants get to understand ways they can contribute to advancing the rights of LGBTIQ+ persons, especially at the national level. Participants typically include academics, police officers and magistrates (who often lack basic knowledge and are often accused of abusing LGBTIQ+ persons); and NGOs that do not work on sexual minority rights issues or that have only recently begun to do so and need capacity building.

The Centre for Human Rights also hosts a capacity building workshop on sexual minorities in Africa, a more technical course designed to train LGBTIQ+ activists on how to engage with the African Union and United Nations human rights bodies – understanding the history, composition and working of these supra-national bodies, as well as how to bring cases/communications before these bodies. The workshop examines case law as well as legal and political strategies used in the past. This helps participants formulate their own strategies and develop networks.

The workshop is interactive and includes practical exercises where participants receive training on the processes and procedures of AU and UN human rights bodies. They are also able to share experiences and inspire each other. Participants for the workshop typically include LGBTIQ+ activists and human rights defenders in general who, at least, have some experience of working at the national level. More information on applying for this workshop will be published on the Centre’s website in due course.

Important Note 

Course content

The programme may contain elements of the following themes:

Application Process 

* Please note that in order to apply for any of the Advanced Human Rights Courses, you are required to use a Google Gmail account.

For more information, visit https://www.chr.up.ac.za/courses-presented/sexual-minority-rights

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