ILGA Asia 2024 Human Rights and Sustainable Development Mechanisms Training for South Asian LGBTIQ Activists

Call for Applications

ILGA Asia is thrilled to share this call for applications for our upcoming, in person training taking place from 6 – 9 September 2024, venue TBA. The training will be dedicated to the capacity building of 20 LGBTIQ activists and human rights defenders based across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

We encourage you to apply for this training if you are an LGBTIQ activist and human rights defender based in one of these countries, and you’re interested in learning how to:

➢ Engage the United Nations to raise awareness of the issues affecting your community

➢ Safely and securely advocate for positive and sustainable legal and social change in your country

➢ Leverage international actors, processes, and institutions in order to apply pressure on national law and decision makers.

Before applying, please review the training concept note, and the draft program table. You can apply for the training by completing this form by 23:59 ICT on Friday, 7 June 2024. Shortlisted applicants will be notified by Friday, 5 July 2024 to confirm participation in the training. While some informal language interpretation services may be available, the training will be conducted in English.

ILGA Asia will cover flights, accommodations for 5 nights, breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the venue for 5 days, ground transportation, travel insurance, and any visa costs. Should you have any questions in the meantime, please do not hesitate to reach out to Omair Paul, ILGA Asia’s Senior Global Advocacy Officer, at [email protected].

We look forward to hearing from you and to receiving your application!

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Shambawi Paudel

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Research Associate

Shambhawi Paudel is a feminist advocate with a research interest in critiquing intersectional application of human rights standards. She completed her LLM in Human Rights Law specializing in International Justice.She is involved in policy research and has written and published on a range of issues, including gender, queer rights, education policy, and digital rights and privacy concerns. She believes it is important to have long conversations about navigating oppressive social power relations rooted in care and community. She enjoys reading and crocheting in her free time

Omair Paul

(he/him)
Research and global advocacy program manager

Omair Paul is the Program Manager at ILGA Asia. He joins the team with almost a decade of UN advocacy experience, previously serving as the UN Representative for Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) since 2014. He led the organisation’s UN advocacy strategy and campaigns, represented MPV in various high-level UN meetings & processes, and forged working relationships with diplomats, UN agencies, and civil society organisations (CSOs) and networks.

He focuses on countering fundamentalist religious ideologies and protecting the rights to free expression, freedom of religion and belief, and the economic and social rights of women, girls, and ethnic, religious, and SOGIESC minorities in Muslim societies.

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