The project seeks to protect and promote the human rights of LGBTQ+ people aged over 55. Specifically, it seeks to map – through the Rights Violations Observatory – the discrimination experienced by LGBTQ+ people, with a focus on addressing gender-based violence along with multiple social exclusions: from Health, Welfare and Care Services, the right to housing and work, support in dealing with gender-based violence, as well as from areas/spaces of sociability and collective recreation. At the same time, it provides the community with tools, upgrading its existing tool kit and allowing its members to advocate for and secure rights through the development of a range of best practices acquired through empowerment and the acquisition of advocacy skills. Finally, raising public awareness coupled with the targeted sensitization of frontline professionals through the information campaign, serves to familiarize broader audiences with respect for fundamental rights and their protection, but also the practical assistance of professionals in allowing equal access to, and full enjoyment of, these rights.
Target groups:
- Members of the LGBTQI+ community aged over 55 who suffer gender and human rights violations
- LGBTQI+ advocates, activists from Civil Society organizations/groups, and community focal points
- Frontline professionals; people who work in health, care, welfare, service delivery, social/recreational spaces; and providers of informal care
- LGBTQI+ people of all ages
- The general public
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