Virtual Talk: " LGBTIQ Advocacy in Asia"
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The departments of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Global Studies, Global Middle East Minor, Queer Studies Minor, and South Asian Studies Minor invite you and your students to a virtual talk by Omair Paul, “LGBTIQ Advocacy in Asia,” on November 13, 2025, from 2 pm – 3.30 pm PST.
Zoom ID: 777 004 5181
Zoom Passcode: 952826
Asia, as a continent, can be characterized as vast, dynamic, and diverse. This characterization is reflected in the myriad kinds of civil society, social justice, development justice, and human rights movements that organize and mobilize across the continent, as well as in the various advocacy strategies employed by these movements. This talk examines how the LGBTIQ movement in Asia leverages regional and international human rights and sustainable development accountability and review processes facilitated by the United Nations to promote awareness of and provide recommendations for inclusion, respect, and protection of human rights based on sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC).
Omair Paul is currently the Research and Global Advocacy Manager with the Asian Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association of Asia (ILGA Asia), having joined ILGA Asia as its Global Advocacy Officer in 2022. He is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand, and is responsible for conducting the organization's research, capacity-building, and advocacy coordination activities for ILGA Asia's over 200 members. He previously served as the Policy Officer for Human Rights for the Major Group for Children and Youth (2021-2022), where he was responsible for convening and coordinating the advocacy efforts of youth-led thematic and identity constituencies in the UN's sustainable development and human rights review processes. Prior to that, he served as the United Nations Representative for Muslims for Progressive Values from 2014 - 2019, where he led the organization's UN advocacy and partnerships work, and successfully campaigned for accreditation with the UN Economic and Social Council in 2018. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a master’s degree in human rights from the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University.
The Scholarly Intersections grant generously provides funding for this virtual talk.
Sponsors: Departments of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and Global Studies, and Global Middle East Minor, Queer Studies Minor, and South Asian Studies Minor.
