Matari Sehati

A groundbreaking set of principles on sexual orientation, gender identity, and international law is a landmark advance in the struggle for basic human rights as well as gender equality, Human Rights Watch and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. The document, known as the Yogyakarta Principles after the city where it was adopted, was launched at 9-10 December 2008 in Yogyakarta city by a group of 29 international human rights experts. The “Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Law in Relation to Issues of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” were adopted by a meeting of experts in international law in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in November 2006. They confirm legal standards for how governments and other actors should end violence, abuse, and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, and ensure full equality.

The experts launching the principles include a former Ardhanary Institute, non government organization, judges, artist and academics. Indonesian Woman Cualition a secretariat supporting the work of the experts who developed the principles. Ardhanary Institute was a member of the advisory committee to the secretariat. The Yogyakarta Principles were developed in response to well-documented patterns of abuse around the globe. These abuses, perpetrated because of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, have affected millions.

The principles address:

• rape and other forms of gender-based violence;


• extrajudicial executions;


• torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment;


• medical abuses;


• repression of free speech and assembly; and


• discrimination in work, health, education, housing, access to justice, and immigration.

The principles also map out a positive road to full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people around the world. Each principle is accompanied by detailed recommendations to states on how to end discrimination and abuse.

Sumber: Arsip Berita Matari Sehati Yogyakarta