GENDER, SEXUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

GENDER, SEXUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Introduction

The issue of women's human rights is both the same and different than the hombres. Like men, women are victims of repression, torture, disappearances, hunger. In turn, women may face particular repressive methods, such as rape and forced pregnancy and certainly the everyday discrimination. Women earn less, and work more, and along with that they often do not have a guarantee of regarding the right to their name, their belly, and their children. In this essay we aim to provide information and links on the particular problems of women.

In recent years, international organizations, States and the women's movement have stressed the importance of giving priority to gender mainstreaming and human rights of women in policy formulation, planning and development strategies. They have also made ??visible the role that women have played in the process of deepening democracy and peace building in the countries. The contents of these advances for the full recognition of women's human rights have been enshrined in various international treaties and laws. In the case of Guatemala, then the following quote, which constitute the legal framework that supports the operation of the Women's Unit.

Discussion

Discrimination based on gender roles and sexuality continues to penetrate the laws and rights- economic and human rights. These inequalities are present in the access and control of resources, economic opportunity, and political power and health services. Simultaneously, the People often end up being victims of human rights based gender and sexuality. Gender and sexuality in a person determine to what extent he or she will be vulnerable to HIV, and as their ability to access the services available for prevention, treatment, and care and other. Gender inequality also influences the extent to which a person may hac- Erle against the economic and social burden of living with HIV and other diseases with HIV, caring for a family or exceeds the deaths of relatives.

Gender identity

Gender discrimination is considered to be the most essential facet of the human life. Gender of an individual is usually determined at the time of his birth, and then this becomes a social, and the legal fact. But some people - quite a few - do not identify the sex to which they belong. It The same goes for intersex people whose bodies physiologically present in a mixture of characters male and female, including some of them of terms of their sexual anatomy. For still others, the problem comes from an innate perception of themselves that does not match the sex that was given to them at birth. We talk to designate all these cases, people transgender or transsexual. This is what they spent on the document. The situation of transgender people in terms of human rights has been long ignored and neglected when Just as these people are facing serious problems, often specific. They are particularly vulnerable to intolerance, discrimination, and even brutality. Their fundamental rights are violated which includes the right to physical integrity, right to vigor ...