World Health Organization removes transgender from list of mental disorders
World Health Organization removes transgender from list of mental disorders This will have a ‘liberating’ effect on trans people worldwide The World Health Organization (WHO) has made history and removed transgender from its list of ‘mental disorders’. The...
Study Of The Needs Of Sexual And Gender Diversity Population In Morocco
The Moroccan LGBTQIA+ community has recently been the target of hate speeches and actions from homophobic and transphobic individuals. The precarious situation and vulnerable position experienced by lesbian, bisexual, gay, trans and non binary individuals through these attacks is directly...
The Women’s Movement in Morocco: Bridging the Progressive-Islamic Feminist Binary
“Women’s Arab Spring”: that is the aspiration of many women around North Africa and the Middle East. As a young female Moroccan student, I am also involved in women’s empowerment in my country. However, since a very early age, I...
Condyloma (Genital Warts)
Condyloma (Genital Warts) Condyloma or genital warts come from a virus (HPV) that can cause harmless warts in the genital area or around the anus. The warts are usually lobed or round, slightly raised, pink or flesh colored. The virus...
Countries where Homosexuality is still a Crime
Countries where Homosexuality is still a Crime (in alphabetical order) In the Middle Eastern region, there are 13 countries that still criminalise homosexuality. Of these 8 have ratified the ICCPR, but none have submitted themselves to the jurisdiction of the...
Freedom to Malak Elkashif and Hossam Ahmed
Freedom to Malak Elkashif and Hossam Ahmed Malak Elkashif is an Egyptian Transwoman, and Hossam Ahmed is an Egyptian Transman who were arrested by the Egyptian authorities for participating in protests that followed the the Egyptian railway station explosion incident...
Gender and Sexuality
When filling out official documents, you are often asked to provide your name, birth date, and sex or gender. But have you ever been asked to provide your sex and your gender? It may not have occurred to you that sex and gender are not the...