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25/07/2003
Health care report addresses homosexuals
A new report is to be launched this weekend aimed at addressing health care issues for people in Northern Ireland who are homosexual.
Entitled 'Learning to Grow Up', the report, which is launched as part of Pride Week, will look at the multiple identities of young lesbians, gay men and bisexual people (LGB people) in the province.
The report highlights the difficulties faced by young LGB people because of their age and sexual orientation. It shows that young LGB people are often exposed to prejudice and to physical and emotional violence and as a result of these human rights abuses, they feel invisible and isolated.
In the report the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) and the British Medical Association are advised to draft a policy and code of practice protecting the right to privacy of young LGB people in Northern Ireland.
As recommended last year by the UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child, a duty should also be imposed on the Department of Education and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to provide information and structures to support young LGB people in Northern Ireland.
The report has been written by Dr Christine Loudes, an Investigations Worker in the Human Rights Commission.
The current report is part of a much larger piece of work on multiple identities commissioned by the Joint Equality and Human Rights Forum, the body which represents the various statutory human rights and equality institutions throughout the UK and Ireland.
(MB)
Entitled 'Learning to Grow Up', the report, which is launched as part of Pride Week, will look at the multiple identities of young lesbians, gay men and bisexual people (LGB people) in the province.
The report highlights the difficulties faced by young LGB people because of their age and sexual orientation. It shows that young LGB people are often exposed to prejudice and to physical and emotional violence and as a result of these human rights abuses, they feel invisible and isolated.
In the report the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) and the British Medical Association are advised to draft a policy and code of practice protecting the right to privacy of young LGB people in Northern Ireland.
As recommended last year by the UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child, a duty should also be imposed on the Department of Education and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to provide information and structures to support young LGB people in Northern Ireland.
The report has been written by Dr Christine Loudes, an Investigations Worker in the Human Rights Commission.
The current report is part of a much larger piece of work on multiple identities commissioned by the Joint Equality and Human Rights Forum, the body which represents the various statutory human rights and equality institutions throughout the UK and Ireland.
(MB)
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The Northern Ireland Policing Board today published its third Annual Report into the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI’s) compliance with the Human Rights Act 1998.
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03 July 2003
UN convention on disability welcomed
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has welcomed the decision taken by a United Nations Ad Hoc Committee to proceed with a new policy of the rights of disabled people.
UN convention on disability welcomed
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has welcomed the decision taken by a United Nations Ad Hoc Committee to proceed with a new policy of the rights of disabled people.
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