MPV Side Event: Pre-colonial Societies on Gender and
Sexuality

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42nd HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Pre-colonial Societies on Gender and Sexuality: A Hindu, Muslim
and Indigenous Peoples' Perspective

Wednesday, September 11th 2019

10:00 – 11:00 am

Palais des Nations, Geneva, Conference Room XVI

Colonial legal codes, political and religious systems, and
patriarchal cultural mores and narratives still inform and
influence laws, policies, and social practices in many former
colonial territories. These foreign systems and narratives were
imposed on and eroded existing legal, political, and religious
institutions, and erased indigenous sexualities, genders, and
expressions. Sexual and gender minorities across the world today
still suffer discrimination, inequality, injustice, and violence
due to the persistence and perpetuation of patriarchal and
heteronormative colonial laws and worldviews. The impact is felt
today more than ever as political and religious representatives
hijack discourses of cultural relativism and religious freedom to
oppose the promotion of human rights in different corners of the
world, including at the UN. This side event will feature stories
celebrating diversity, love, and inclusion by centering the
voices of marginalized people, predominantly from the Global
South, who represent pre-colonial cultural and religious
traditions and contexts that are inclusive and affirming of
LGBTIQ people around the world.

Opening Remarks from a Representative from the Permanent Mission
of South Africa to the UN.

Our panelists will be Imam Dr Ludovic-Mohammed Zahed (Islam,
Algeria/France), Dr Yvette Abrahams (Khoesan indigenous
spirituality, South Africa), Manisha Dhakal (Hindu, Nepal), and
Dr Elizabeth Kerekere (Maori indigenous spirituality, New
Zealand) and the panel will be moderated by Ani Zonneveld from
Muslims for Progressive Values.

See you then!

Ani Zonneveld
Founder, President

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