GOV 372: Global LGBTQ+ Human Rights
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- United Nations Human Rights CouncilThe Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system made up of 47 States responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe.
- Human Rights WatchHuman Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization. It publishes more than 100 reports and briefings on human rights conditions in some 90 countries.
- Human Rights Country ReportsAn annual report from the U. S. Department of State.
- International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex AssociationThe annual reports and news items are very useful.
- Trans Legal Mapping Report: Recognition before the Law (2016)This is the first edition of a comprehensive 69-page report on laws and legislation that concern and govern trans people around the world. This report is a research project of ILGA's Gender Identity and Gender Expression Programme, which aims to call attention to issues of gender identity and expression around the world. This report covers laws and legal procedures for trans and gender-diverse people to change their identity markers on official documents, as well as the conditions that allow for these processes to take place.
- Global Views on HomosexualityFrom the Pew Research Center
- Trans Murder MonitoringAnnual data from the Transgender Europe organization
- GovInfo This link opens in a new windowGPO's GovInfo provides free public access to Government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies and preserved as technology changes. (replaced FDsys in December 2018)
- Statistical Abstract of the United States This link opens in a new windowA collection of searchable statistical tables on the social, political, and economic characteristics of the United States.
- U. S. Census BureauA source of data for social and economic characteristics of the population: national, state, and local
- World DataBank This link opens in a new windowA data source that includes information on the global economy, finance, gender, education, health, natural resources, and environmental indicators. This resource, published by the World Bank, contains statistical data for over 600 development indicators and time series data from 1960 to the latest compiled for over 200 countries as well as 18 country groups. Databases include: World Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, Gender Statistics, Education Statistics, Health Nutrition and Population Statistics, Africa Development Indicators, Global Economic Monitor, and Millennium Development Goals.
- Europa World Plus This link opens in a new windowOnline version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. An indispensable source of information on world-wide affairs. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
