Protection of Sexual Minorities since Stonewall: Progress and Stalemate in Developed and Developing Countries

ISBN-13: 9780415418508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 392 str.

Chan, Phil C. W.

Opis

The Stonewall Riot in New York in 1969 marked the birth of the sexual minority rights movement worldwide. In the subsequent four decades, equality and related rights on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity have been enshrined in many African, Asian, Australasian, European and North American countries, thanks to better informed discourses of the natures of sexual orientation, gender identity, equality and rights that systematic scientific and socio-legal research has generated. Discrimination, harassment and persecution on grounds of a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, however, continue to pervade the laws and social norms in all developed and developing countries. In tribute to the courage of those who participated in the Stonewall Riot, this book examines the progress and stalemate in various countries on five continents, as well as in the development of international law, concerning the rights of persons belonging to sexual minorities. This book covers issues including homophobic bullying and gay-straight alliances in schools; the merits and problems that legislation prohibiting hate speech on grounds of sexual orientation presents; criminal justice systems in relation to male rape victims and to criminalisation of HIV exposure and transmission; the development of sexual minority rights, from historical and socio-legal perspectives, in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and Zimbabwe; the lives of transgender persons in Asian countries; the evolution, operation and impact of international and domestic refugee laws on sexual orientation and gender identity as grounds for refugee status and asylum; and the conflicts between law, religion and sexual minority equality rights that inhere in the same-sex marriage debate in Ireland. This book was previously published as a special double issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Spis treści

Foreword  Desmond M. Tutu  Preface  Frank Barnaby  1. Protection of sexual minorities since Stonewall: their lives, struggles, sufferings, love, and hope  Phil C.W. Chan  2. Psychosocial implications of homophobic bullying in schools: a review and directions for legal research and the legal process  Phil C.W. Chan  3. Fighting to fit in: gay–straight alliances in schools under United States jurisprudence  Matthew T. Mercier  4. Cumulative jurisprudence and human rights: the example of sexual minorities and hate speech  Eric Heinze  5. Challenging hate speech: incitement to hatred on grounds of sexual orientation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland  Kay Goodall  6. Gay male rape victims: law enforcement, social attitudes and barriers to recognition  Philip N.S. Rumney  7. Criminal law, public health, and governance of HIV exposure and transmission  Alana Klein  8. Shared values of Singapore: sexual minority rights as Singaporean value  Phil C.W. Chan  9. Keeping up with (which) Joneses: a critique of constitutional comparativism in Hong Kong and its implications for rights development  Phil C.W. Chan  10. Sexual minorities and human rights in Japan: an historical perspective  Mark McLelland and Katsuhiko Suganuma  11. Blackmail in Zimbabwe: troubling narratives of sexuality and human rights  Oliver Phillips  12. Lost in transition: transpeople, transprejudice and pathology in Asia  Sam Winter  13. From discretion to disbelief: recent trends in refugee determinations on the basis of sexual orientation in Australia and the United Kingdom  Jenni Millbank  14. Bisexuals need not apply: a comparative appraisal of refugee law and policy in Canada, the United States, and Australia  Sean Rehaag  15. Independent human rights documentation and sexual minorities: an ongoing challenge for the Canadian refugee determination process  Nicole LaViolette  16. Same-sex marriage and the Irish Constitution  Aisling O’Sullivan

O autorze

Phil C.W. Chan is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Otago Faculty of Law, while completing his doctoral thesis on China and international law for examination at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He has held visiting research positions at universities including Cambridge, Keele, St Andrews, ANU, Ottawa, Toronto, Freiburg and Vanderbilt.