The ECOSOC is set to vote on ILGA’s application on Monday 25 July 2011.
In its letter, DAWN said that as a network of feminist scholars, researchers and activists from the economic South working for economic and genderrefers to a social construct which places cultural and social expectations on individuals based on their assigned sex. More justice, and sustainable and democratic development, it insists that member states uphold the principle of non-discriminatory access and maintain fair process.
DAWN looks forward to the Philippines and other states voting favorably for the accreditation of ILGA’s consultative status towards full affirmation of the legitimacy of sexual orientationrefers to a person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to - and intimate and sexual relations with - individuals of a different gender or the same gender or more than one gender. More and gender identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. More as critical concerns within the human rights of all individuals.
This statement is also online at
http://www.dawnnet.org/advocacy-appeals.php?signon=159&id=159
Josefa (Gigi) Francisco, Global Coordinator,
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
Email: info@dawnnet.org