YEAR 13, NUMBER 2, 10 DECEMBER 2020

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>> 10 December 2020 - This year UNESCO celebrates 60 years since the adoption of the Convention against Discrimination in Education. But it is disappointing that even after 60 years only half of the UN members states have ratified the convention. For The GALE membership, it is also disappointing that the UNESCO survey to monitor the implementation of the convention does not make reference to LGBTI discrimination. Furthermore, it is disappointing that UNESCO makes it very challenging for NGOs to participate in the consultation on the convention.

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>> 9 December 2020 - Since March 2020, The European Lesbian Conference organization (ELC) has been collecting testimonies and analyzing the impacts of Covid-19 on lesbians. They are huge and now ELC is launching comprehensive survey. The organization hopes to gather over 4000 responses. EL*C welcomes responses by lesbians on a wide gender identity spectrum (trans, cis, non binary). The goal of the survey is develop recommendations for policy makers and donors to take into account in the current crisis management schemes.

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> 5 June 2020 - Today, GALE joined a coalition of 187 organizations to draw the attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the situation of LGBTI persons and those who defend their rights in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The coalition urged States and stakeholders to ensure that this public health emergency will neither exacerbate existing misconceptions, prejudices, inequalities or structural barriers, nor lead to increased violence and discrimination against sexually and gender diverse persons.

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> 9 November 2020 - The conservative Australian politician Mark Latham has proposed a law for the state of New South Wales that will forbid education about gender fluidity. The proposal harms trans and gender diverse students by denying their existence and prevents teachers and counsellors from supporting them. It allows parents to withdraw their child from a class or program which tells them LGBTIQ+ people are just like everyone else. The proposed bill prohibits schools from referring to gender fluidity and prohibits school counsellors supporting trans or gender diverse students.

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> 8 November 2020 - Sanjana Chowdury from the BBC reports that in Dhaka, a madrassa for third sex people has opened. It is the first religious school for transgender people to be opened in Bangladesh. Although right wing forces vehemently persecute gay and lesbian people in Bangladesh, third gender has officially been recognized. When students already become aware they are transgender and come out, this usually leads to heavy bullying in school by both students and teachers. The drop-out is hight, and the effect is that most transgender people are illiterate. A separate school for transgenders is one way of amending this challenge.

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