International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Law Association

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The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Law Association (ILGLaw, translated: "International lesbian, gay, transgender & intersexual legal society", formerly: International Lesbian and Gay Law Association ) is an international association of mostly legally educated people everyone sexual identity , who advocate the legal equality of lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender and intersex people ( LGBTIs ).

History of origin

During a conference in 1999, a small group of lawyers from different parts of the world met in the Admiral Duncan Pub in Soho , London. The idea of ​​an international legal association was born. Another meeting took place in September 2000 in Amsterdam, where a board of directors was constituted. In June 2002, at a conference in Turin, the organization was completed.

job

In order to achieve the goals, the main focus is on the international exchange of experience and lobbying with governments and international institutions. ILGLaw also supports the efforts of the Center for Research and Comparative Legal Studies on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (CERSGOSIG, Center for Research and comparative law studies on sexual orientation and gender identity ) in the establishment of an international resource database.

organization

The board of directors includes respected specialized lawyers from all ice-free continents. The organization is divided into geographical regions, each of which is headed by gender equality.

  • Regional boards
    • Africa and the Middle East ("Middle East")
      • ♀ : Lisa Forman
        Forman is a lawyer in South Africa with BA and Bachelor of Laws from Witwatersrand University , Masters in Human Rights from Columbia University and PhD student in the Law School of the University of Toronto , with a focus on human rights related to access to AIDS. Medication is. Her specialty as a lawyer is HIV / AIDS law and research in it, gay and lesbian rights, international human rights and the South African constitution, specifically with regard to health and HIV / AIDS. She worked on HIV / AIDS and human rights related projects in Lusaka , Geneva and New York and has published several academic papers. She currently lives in Toronto.
      • ♂: Aeyal M. Gross
        Gross works at the Law Faculty of Tel Aviv University and specializes in constitutional law, international law, human rights and laws that affect the area of ​​sexuality. He serves on the board of directors and on the presidium of the Legal Committee of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel . Between 1999 and 2005 he was a pro bono legal advisor to Israeli LGBT organizations. He received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Tel Aviv University in 1990, an SJD degree from Harvard Law School at Harvard University in 1996 and a degree in human rights from the Academy of European Law in 1998 . He publishes articles in academic journals and writes columns in the Israeli press. He is co-founder of the ILGLaw.
    • Asia
      • ♀: Magdalena "Daymeg" Lepiten
        Lepiten is the responsible director for lesbians at GAHUM-Philippines Inc. , a Cebu City- based non-governmental organization for women, children, union work, small farmers and the environment. She also researches, for example in 2001 for the International Labor Organization on child labor and drug sales in Cebu City.
      • ♂: Aditya Bondyopadhyay
        Bondyopadhyay (born February 20, 1972) is a lawyer in New Delhi , India . He has been an openly gay activist in a country that criminalizes homosexuality since 1993 and is practically a criminal there, as he has lived with his boyfriend for several years. He is also an HIV prevention activist in South Asia, a member of the Lawyers Collective , one of India's leading human rights groups, a member of Naz Foundation International , a London-based organization that runs forty HIV projects for MSM in India, Pakistan , Nepal and Bangladesh supports, active member of the Voices Against 377 campaign and activist in several other projects. He is also the first Asian and the third queer person to testify before the UN Human Rights Committee against the repression of sexual minorities in India.
    • Australia and South Pacific
      • ♀: vacant
      • ♂: Rodney Croome
        Croome is the spokesman for the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group , which changed LGBT law on the island. He is also an activist on other local and national projects. He studied European history at the University of Tasmania .
    • Europe
      • ♀: Karon Monaghan
        Monaghan has extensive discrimination, equality, human rights and European law practice in the UK and is best known for her work on anti-discrimination law. She is a member of the JSB's Bar Race Relations Committee (“Legal Racism Committee”) and Equal Treatment         Committee , the Fawcett Commission on Women of the Criminal Justice System, and a founding member and vice president of the Discrimination Law Association . She is regularly appointed by the Commission for Racial Equality , the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Disability Rights Commission . She widely teaches anti-discrimination law, provides training for numerous organizations dealing with anti-discrimination law, and is a member of several other legal associations.
      • ♂: Helmut Graupner
        Graupner did his doctorate at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna , has been an independent lawyer in Vienna since 2000, a member of the Austrian and the Czech Bar Association, President of the Lambda Legal Committee since 1991 , and Co-President of the Austrian Society for Sexual Research since 1992 , heard expert in the Austrian and German parliaments as well as at European level. He has taught at the University of Innsbruck and since 2006 at the European Law Academy. In Austria, before the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights , he has “won” several important cases in the area of ​​LGBT rights.
    • North America
      • ♀: Martha McCarthy
        McCarthy is a partner in the Epstein Cole law firm in Toronto. It is of the Law Society of Upper Canada certified specialist in family law and was leading lawyer in the pioneering of Canada case, M v H and Halpern v. Canada . She is one of the leading human rights lawyers widely recognized in Canada and has published and taught nationally and internationally on human rights and family law.
      • ♂: David Cruz
        Cruz has been a professor at the University of Southern California Law School since 1996 and is a legal practitioner with a focus on civil rights and equality, specializing in anti-discrimination and LGBT rights. He received his education at the University of California, Irvine , Stanford University and the New York University School of Law .
    • South America
      • ♀: Tamara Adrián Hernandez
        Hernandez is a law professor at the Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas in Venezuela , a transgender woman, lawyer and general director of the law firm Adrian & Adrian Abogados Consultores . She has worked with various LGBT organizations in her country and represented them before the Supreme Court.
      • ♂: Germán Humberto Rincón Perfetti
        Rincón Perfetti has been a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Rosario , Argentina, since 1998 , specializing in international human rights for people with HIV / AIDS. He reported to the United Nations about human rights violations in Colombia. In Colombia he published papers on human rights and sexuality and same-sex marriage . He supports transgender people in changing their names. He is a lawyer and lecturer for the G&M of Colombia Lawyers . He holds a PhD from the Law Faculty of the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada in Bogotá , Colombia, and a degree in human rights from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario.

There are also specific global functions and a global board of directors.

  • Ex officio boards
    • Former President: Douglas Elliott
      Elliott is a partner in Roy Elliott O'Connor LLP (REKO) law firm in Toronto , Canada . He is the founding co-chair of the Lesbian and Gay Issues and Rights Committee of the Ontario Bar Association (“       Ontario Bar Association ) and the founding co-chair of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee of the Canadian Bar Association . He has represented a wide range of organizations in equality cases before the Supreme Court of Canada and other courts. He gave lectures to local and international organizations mainly on LGBT equality and AIDS. He is co-founder of ILGLaw and was its first president.
    • Information and Research Director: Stefano Fabeni
      The Italian is a Doctor of Law ( University of Turin , 1998), Master of Laws ( James Kent Scholar of Columbia University , 2004) and works on issues related to human rights of sexual minorities. He is director of CERSGOSIG , “brain” and coordinator of the database project, member of the European Group of Experts on Combating Sexual Orientation Discrimination , legal advisor to the Italian non-governmental organization InformaGay , pro bono legal advisor to the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro and legal advisor in the field of anti-discrimination. He has drafted bills that have been submitted to the Italian Parliament. He speaks at various conferences and writes articles on the subject of LGBT.
  • Board of Directors ("Executive Committee")
    • Co-President ♀: Tamara Adrian
    • Co-President ♂: David Cruz
    • Vice President: Aeyal Gross
    • Finance Secretary: Lisa Forman
    • Former President: Douglas Elliott
  • Honorary President: Michael Kirby
    Kirby was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Australia from 1996 to 2009.

International Conferences

  • The first conference is counted as the one during which the idea for this network was born. It took place from July 1st to 3rd, 1999 at King's College London under the motto "Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Conference in National, European and International Law" and was organized by the Center of European Law of the local law faculty.
  • The second conference was held in cooperation with the Italian organization InformaGay and CERSGOSIG from June 5th to 8th, 2002 in the congress center in Turin under the title "Marriage, Partnerships an Parenting in the 21st Century - The current international situation an new perspectives for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people and their families-a comparative approach ”. There was also a forum for judges with Edwin Cameron from South Africa, Lilian Hofmeister from the Austrian Constitutional Court and Wilhelmina Thomassen from the European Court of Human Rights.
  • The third conference was held from June 26-29, 2005 in Toronto under the motto "Rights are Right" and was held in collaboration with the law school of the University of Toronto.
  • The fourth conference took place from March 11-14, 2009 in West Hollywood under the motto “The Global Arc of Justice: Sexual Orientation Law Around the World”. She was supported by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles . At this conference, the full name of the International Lesbian and Gay Law Association was changed to International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex Law Association , Tamara Adrian was elected Co-President and Michael Kirby was named Honorary President.

ILGLaw also participates in one way or another in many regional events, such as the Lavender Law Conference in New York in October 2003.

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Awards

The Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Award

The Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Award , also known as the Karl Award for short , is named after Karl Heinrich Ulrichs , the first openly “Urnish” lawyer who, in 1867, was the first to publicly demand the abolition of all paragraphs directed against “Urninge” before the German Lawyers' Conference in Munich is referred to by sexologists as the “first gay man in world history”. When they met in Turin in 2002, the Board of Directors decided to award this prize every three years to a living or deceased person who has made an important contribution to the legal equality of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people in their life . Each region is entitled to nominate one candidate. The directors who cannot be nominated themselves then select the winner from this group.

  • On June 28, 2005, the award was given to George Hislop (June 3, 1927 - October 8, 2005) from Toronto - a pioneer of gay activism in Canada. He was the founder of Ontario's first gay rights organization , the University of Toronto Homophile Association , in 1969 , and has long been Executive Director of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto , active in city, provincial and national anti-discrimination protection. He and his partner, Ronald Shearer, became the first homosexual couple to appear in Canadian media, and he was also the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in Canada. In his hometown, he was called a "legend" by a superior court judge and in 2004 he was chosen for his services to lead Grand Marshall of the Toronto Gay Pride Parade . He was also active in the community in the health sector.
  • On March 14, 2009, the prize was awarded to Peter Schieder from Vienna, who, as a young member of the National Council in 1971, was instrumental in lifting the total ban on homosexuality in Austria and in his inaugural address as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2002 Made LGBTI rights one of his priorities.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b R. Douglas Elliott: International Lesbian and Gay Law Association , in: International Bar Association, Helmut Graupner, Phillip Tahmindjis (eds.): Sexuality and human rights: a global overview , Haworth Press, 2005, ISBN 1-56023- 555-1 , p. 1
  2. ^ Volkmar Sigusch: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, The first gay in world history , swarm of men, 2000, ISBN 3-86149-105-2