The International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia was established by the United Nations and the European Union in 2004, 14 years after the decision on 17 May 1990 to remove homosexuality from the WHO list of mental illnesses.
Human rights
May 17 marks the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Authors Miquel Missé and Noemí Parra present a book in which they analyse and explore gender identities at puberty.
At the end of April, Lesbian Visibility Day is commemorated, where the recognition of lesbian women in a patriarchal society hostile to their existence is demanded
It is Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and one of the pillars of Muslim religious practice, and the people gathered on the Rambla del Raval will break their fast collectively in the public space
Disability rights are still too little talked about, especially in southern European countries. Italy is so far from the goal of true inclusion that it has been severely reprimanded by the OECD. Lack of health, education and access to work infrastructures
Feminism once again shows its social muscle in an exhibition of demands and solidarity. 40,000 people gathered at the 8M demonstration in Barcelona, according to the Guardia Urbana.
Psychologist Núria Casanovas analyses the drawings of seven children who have lived through the war in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, which has been under threat of invasion by Vladimir Putin’s troops for more than a year.
There is a direct relationship between coloniality, the location of toxic sites, environmental conflicts, and the climate emergency. This short essay aims to unravel these connections.
The war has turned the spotlight on Ukraine. And beyond the tragedy of the conflict, endemic problems of society are emerging. One of the most serious is the ‘social orphanhood’, the more than 100,000 children living in institutions inherited from the ‘post-Soviet’ system.
Cities such as Barcelona and Lisbon are examples of the structural problem of access to housing: exorbitant prices and real estate oligopolies that leave most tenants at risk of poverty and young people condemned to precariousness.