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“Equality in Diversity Now!”

Chiang Mai, Thailand, 24-27 January 2008

OPENING PLENARY I: Launching of the Yogyakarta Principles
Naiyana Supapueng

Opening Address
Naiyana Supapueng, Representative, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Thailand

Protection of LGBT Human Rights in Thailand and progress made in the last years, challenges ahead

;Vitit Muntarbhorn

Keynote Address
Vitit Muntarbhorn, UN Special Rapporteur, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Explaining the importance of the Yogjakarta Principles that relates to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. How to work with the Yogjakarta Principles to lobby for LGBT Rights. Definition of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Principles

PLENARY II: Queering the Asian Legal Systems
Sumit Baudh

Penalization of Private Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts in the Commonwealth Countries of South and Southeast Asia
Sumit Baudh, The South and South East Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality, India

About the countries in Asia that do still have laws prohibiting consented same-sex relations.
Presents strategies on how to work towards the abolishment of these laws.

Roddy Shaw The struggles for LGBT equality in Hong Kong
Roddy Shaw, Civil Rights for sexual Diversities, Hong Kong

Situation of LGBT people in Hong Kong and the Anti-Gay Alliance and organisations. Censorship by the Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority. Strategies to bring about change: Legal Framework, Role of the UN, Juridical Activism and Challenge, mix different strategies.

Sunil Pant

Nepal Supreme Court's Historic Decision - Freedom for Us and Hope for Rest of Asia
Sunil Pant, Blue Diamond Society, Nepal

End violence from family, society and state such as no ID issues to transgenders, denial of social services, denial to marry the person we love. How LGBT people in Nepal were able to improve their rights with the support of the international community.

Azusa Yamashita

An Attempt to Protect LGBT Rights under Local Legislation in Japan
Azusa Yamashita, Gay Japan News, Japan

LGBT Rights movement in Japan is more active than ever before. About the need of a comprehensive and practical legislation to protect LGBT people.

Ashley Hsu-liang Wu

Progressive Legislation vs. Conservative Court – A Tortured Legal Creation under Taiwan’s Social and Cultural Context
Ashley Hsu-liang Wu, Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association, Taiwan

Hopes in Taiwan: From 2004 onwards a number of progressive bills were passed in Taiwan. Truth and challenges: Court decisions on LGBT rights are very conservative. Contradiction in society between protect speech rights of sexual minorities and the observation majority moral. Raise of Western Christian Conservative Power

Edgar Bernal

Shadow Preying on Shadows: LGBTs in Philippine Criminal Law
Edgar Bernal, Rainbow Rights Project (RRights) Inc., Philippines

Situation of LGBT people in the Philippines with state morality and catholic church. Pending progressive laws. Why there are no sodomy laws in the Philippines. History of pre-Spanish cross-dressing religious leaders (Babaylan). Church as promoter of homophobia

Douglas Sanders

The Rainbow Lobby: The Sexual Diversity Network and the Military-Installed Government in Thailand
Douglas Sanders, Gays Without Borders, Thailand/Canada

About the important work Naiyana Supapueng in the National Human Rights Commission in Thailand and the decive role the Human Rights Commission plays in working towards LGBT rights. The impacts of the military coup and the drafting of a new constitution

PLENARY III: Addressing AIDS in Asia
Chad Hughes Is Creating ‘Gay Communities’ the Answer to HIV in Asia?
Chad Hughes, Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Australia
Christopher WalshPad Thepsi Maintaining and Expanding HIV Prevention Programmes at Mplus+ Chiang Mai
Christopher Walsh, Pad Thepsi, & Montian Wuthikailet, Deakin University, Australia / Mplus+, Thailand
Tin Aung Win HIV and Sexual Identity in Myanmar
Tin Aung Win & Kim Benton, Burnet Institute Myanmar, Myanmar/New Zealand
Paul Causey Getting Everyone to the Table: MSM, HIV, and the Asia-Pacific Response
Paul Causey, Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health, Thailand/USA
PLENARY IV: Affirming Transgenders in LGBT Communities
Aya Kamikawa Gender Identity Transformed from “Freaks” to a Rights Issue
Aya Kamikawa, Setagaya Ward Assembly Member in Tokyo, Japan
Anna Kirey Including Transgenders: The Experience of Kyrgyzstan and Ways Forward
Anna Kirey, Labrys, Kyrgyzstan/Ukraine
Lukman "Lulu" Surahman Re-Integration of Transgenders in the LGBT Community
Lukman "Lulu" Surahman, YAYASAN SRIKANDI SEJATI, Indonesia
Suben "Manisha" Dhakal Metis: Rising from Victimization towards Inclusion - Heroes of the Movement
Suben “Manisha” Dhakal & Sunil Pant, Blue Diamond Society, Nepal
Jian Gang Zhao Transgenders in China
Jian Gang Zhao, Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, China
PLENARY V: Women’s Realities & the LGBT Movement  
Kanako Itsuji Women In Japan: LGBT’s Involvement in Politics
Kanako Otsuji, Japan
Upeksha Thabrew Women’s Sexuality and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka
Upeksha Thabrew, Women’s Support Group, Sri Lanka
Sri Agustine Women LBT Visibility: Developing Capacity and Coalition Building Within and Among the LGBT, Human Rights, and Women’s Movements
Sri Agustine, Ardhanary Institute, Indonesia
Anjana Suvarnananda Do We Need a Separate Lesbian Movement in Asia?
Anjana Suvarnananda, Anjaree, Thailand
PLENARY VI: LGBT Movements Traversing Other Social Movements  
Toen-King Oey LGBT Advocacy in the Indonesian Human Rights Movement
Toen-King Oey, Arus Pelangi, Indonesia
Bianca Miglioretto Heterosexism, Social Movements, and the LGBT Agenda in Asia
Tesa de Vela and Bianca Miglioretto, Isis International-Manila, Philippines
Aditya Bondyopadhyay Strapped for Cash? The Implications of HIV Funding in the LGBT Communities
Aditya Bondyopadhyay, Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health, India

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