{"id":327,"date":"2017-09-12T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sta.uwi.edu\/law\/?p=327"},"modified":"2025-02-18T10:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:20:50","slug":"lgbti-panel-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sta.uwi.edu\/law\/lgbti-panel-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTI Panel Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its Human Rights project titled \u201c<em>Growing Capacity for Elevating Trinidad &amp; Tobago to International Human Rights Standards<\/em>\u201d the Faculty of Law held its final public session on LGBTI rights on Thursday September 28th\u00a020187 from 6-8pm. Titled \u201cTowards Sexual equality: Dismantling Discrimination in Laws and Practices\u201d the session featured Ms. Tracy Robinson, a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, UWI Mona and co-founder and co-coordinator of the Faculty of Law UWI Rights Advocacy Project (U-RAP). Known for her research interests in gender, sexuality, constitutionalism and human rights, the discussion attracted a wide cross section of individuals who saw this as a forum to express their concerns for their development of the law in this area. 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