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Session A1:From embassy to advocacy: The role of international organisations in advancing LGBT equality
Facilitator: Sarah Foster, Head of Global
Workplace Programmes, Stonewall
Speakers
Salil Tripathi
Senior Adviser, Institute for Human Rights and Business
Harry Small
IT/Communications Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Fleur Bothwick OBE
EMEIA Director of Diversity & Inclusive Leadership, EY
Agenda
▪ Introduction
▪ Speaker insight
▪ Panel discussion
▪ Q&A
Approaches to LGBT inclusion
*Centre for Talent and Innovation,
Out in the World: Securing LGBT Rights in the Global Marketplace, 2016
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Facilitator(s): Name(s), Job Title, Organisation
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Salil Tripathi
Senior Adviser, Institute for
Human Rights and Business
@saliltripathi
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Facilitator(s): Name(s), Job Title, Organisation
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Harry Small
IT/Communications Partner,
Baker & McKenzie
Agenda
1 Theories of Engagement
2 The Ideal Theory
3 Challenges and Counter-Arguments
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Two Ways of Thinking
• “When in Rome”
• adhere to the norms of the place of operation
• in other words do nothing
• LGBT+ people will feel need to pass for straight or cisgender
• bad for business
• Embassy
• implement LGBT+ supportive policies in offices
• in other words do something
• sometimes unavoidable
• but can be used as an excuse for not going further
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The Ideal Way of Thinking
• The Advocate
• advocate for LGBT+ rights in the public sphere
• equal marriage
• respect for gender identity
• anti-discrimination laws
• “we are not neutral”
• We advocate
• at global level, always
• except where we feel we can’t, at local level
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WE ARE NOT NEUTRAL
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Challenges and Counter-Arguments
• “It’s against the law!”
• Challenge hard: It usually isn’t
• sex
• propaganda
• “People will be offended”
• Challenge hard: they usually won’t be
• people can be offended on behalf of others
• Outlook has a really useful “delete” button
• “It’s against our culture!”
• Challenge hard: most anti-LGBT+ states give leeway to global companies
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More Challenges and Counter-Arguments
• “Our customers/clients won’t like it”
• Challenge: they usually understand
• And if some don’t, sometimes principles are not free
• “We don’t get involved in politics”
• There is the clearest difference between human rights and politics
• Is advocating for equal rights for all races “politics”?
• “What about straight people?”
• Do not dignify this with an answer
• Be personal
• They are talking about me, my spouse, my son, my sister
From Embassies to Advocacy
Harry SmallLead Global LGBT+ initiative
7th April 2017
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Fleur Bothwick OBE
EMEIA Director of Diversity &
Inclusive Leadership, EY
@FleurBothwick
Making it real globally
