📋 Tender Overview
The Equal Rights Coalition ERC will meet in Buenos Aires on September 8-9 2022 to agree on joint action on the urgent issues facing LGBTI people across the globe. world. It will be a unique opportunity for governments and grassroots human rights defenders to work together and share best practices.This meeting takes place at a crucial moment as there are increasing signs of movements that undermine the freedoms and human rights of LGBTI people.The four thematic groups of the ERC will meet to address current issues. These will include discussions on developing inclusive national laws and policies advancing the Sustainable Development Goals supporting civil societys response to the global anti-gender movement and mapping progress towards decriminalization across the world. world.The current co-chairs of the Coalition for Equal Rights Argentina and the United Kingdom will also present a progress monitoring report on the ERC Strategy and Five-Year Implementation Plan published in July 2021.Germany and Mexico will take up their duties as new co-chairs of the ERC during the closing ceremony of the conference on Friday 9 September. The ERC will also commit to strengthening the participation of the members of the Coalition and promoting a greater representation of the Global South. Germany and Mexico will also have co-chairs from civil society and the support of a new Administrative Unit funded by member states.The UK Prime Ministers Special Envoy for LGBT Rights Nick Herbert Lord Herbert of South Downs saidThe UK stands for freedom and that means freedom for all. We are proud of the work of the Equal Rights Coalition to defend these freedoms but more needs to be done everywhere in the world to achieve our goals. We stand ready to support Germany and Mexico in their role as the next co-chairs of the ERC. Together we can send the clear message that LGBTI rights are human rights.The Special Representative of Argentina on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Alba Rueda saidArgentina is a strong country in human rights and diversity. This is the result of the social and political movement of lesbians gays transvestites trans non-binaries and all the activisms that run away from the patriarchal and binary system. We value the ERC along the same lines as a space in which social organizations can express themselves so that the States can listen to them and commit to turning their demands into public policies.
