by YQA | Mar 8, 2021 | News
Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Follow-up on the Recommendations of the 5th Periodic Report for Mauritius – Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity The fifth periodic report of...
by YQA | Mar 8, 2021 | News
Little tippy toes through the many years growing up; the gender lines blurred – getting called by the aunts as “my little girl”; wearing the high heels of mom’s oversized shoes, getting decked up in the fancy dresses of big sister, or the lipsticks savagely adoring...
by YQA | Feb 27, 2021 | News
I am Velani, aged 27 years old and working in the NGO sector for 3 years now. As young as being 8 years old, I knew that I was born in the wrong body. Though being biologically a boy, I always felt attracted by boys and friendlier with girls. My parents even inquired...
by YQA | Jul 20, 2020 | News
Out Leadership is producing a Global Pulse interview series on its OutLeadership Insights. Meet with Najeeb Ahmad Fokeerbux, founder of the Young Queer Alliance, in Out Leadership Insights; the Global Pulse on Equality: Mauritius, by Ryan Fulton. A copy of the...
by YQA | Jun 15, 2020 | News
15 June 2020, Port Louis, Mauritius For immediate release: Young LGBT activists seek to establish equality and freedom under the law for LGBT persons at the Supreme Court of Mauritius to challenge the constitutionality of Section 250 On the 06 September 2019, four...