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BIC organized a delegation of 9 Latin American SOGIE activists to participate during World Bank Annual Meetings. The delegates met key decision makers both inside and outside of the institution, participated as expert panelist at events during the WB Policy Forum, and a Civil Society Organizations Alternative Event.
The meetings they held and events they attended significantly contributed to not only rising awareness and visibility of the discrimination and suffering faced by LGBTI people, but also educating Bank staff on SOGIE rights. Their participation contributed to build an understanding of World Bank culture and processes and allowed the activists to make valuable connections as they advocate for change. As a result, the Latin American Executive Directors committed to support and encourage the SOGIE Task Group to do a report in a couple of Latin American countries on the cost of LGBTI discrimination, comparison of legal frameworks and their impact on development and the LGBTI community.
We ask the World Bank to promote and finance research in Latin America on the cost of discrimination against LGBTI persons and indigenous sexual diversities, in order to be able to economically quantify the grave harms generated by discrimination, hate crimes, marginalization, and violence, the inequality of opportunity in public policies, and affirmative action for these populations. In order to continue to make progress in reviewing and improving the draft of the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework, it is necessary to hold a specific international intersectoral event to deal with issues surrounding LGBTI persons and ancestral indigenous sexual diversities, wherein diverse topics are also addressed related to the new Safeguards being reviewed by the World Bank and the role of these Safeguards in protecting sexually diverse populations.
Fundación Diversencia / Coalición LGBTTTI de las Américas en la OEA
Secretaria de Pueblos Indígenas frente al VIH, Sexualidad y DD.HH (SIPIA)
Colectivo Wigudun Galu
PROMSEX
First Peoples
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This article by Julia Radomski originally appeared on bicusa.org on March 14, 2016 at 07:33PM
