Panel Debate: LGBT Alternative Strategies to Exclusionary Globalization
Date: 17 January 2004
Time: 09h00 to 12h00
Venue: A6 at the WSF 2004, Mumbai
Organizer: The LGBT South-South Dialogue

The neoliberal globalization is massively exclusionary in
several ways, for instance through the expansion of
socioeconomic hierarchies combined to sexual orientation based
discrimination

This panel is intended to analyze geopolitical, cultural,
social, economical and many other aspects connected to the
implementation of sexual rights in the context of
globalization, and to exchange alternative proposals from a
Southern perspective.

MODERATOR: Irene León, ALAI, FEDAEPS & WSF International
Council (Ecuador)

PRESENTATIONS:

Sustaining sexual rights in the globalization
era Phumi Mtetwa, LGBT South-South Dialogue (South Africa /
Ecuador)

Initiatives and challenges in the struggle for sovereignty
Sheila Lapinsky, Lesbian and Gay Equality Project (South
Africa)

Struggle for peace and the rights to self determination Sunila
Abeysekera, Women's Support Group (Sri Lanka)

Strategies to sustain full and worldly citizenship Cesar
Cigliutti, Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (Argentina)

Civil society initiatives in the fight against HIV/AIDS Fatima
Hassan, Treatment Action Campaign

Diversity, plurality and the challenges for constructing
another world Blanca Chancoso, Americas Social Forum & WSF
International Council

The LGBT South-South Dialogue is an international space
oriented to strengthening full citizenship of persons
discriminated against because of their sexual orientation, and
to developing alternative proposals in the context of
globalization.