URGENT ACTION NEEDED
In June this year, 628 organisations from 152 countries joined a statement asking the United Nations Human Rights Council to create a Special Procedure: an Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation......
View ArticleURGENT ACTION NEEDED: SOGI Independent Expert STILL at risk!
Summary We currently face an urgent threat the UN Independent Expert on SOGI at the General Assembly (and Fifth Committee) in UN headquarters in New York. An attempt at the... The post URGENT ACTION...
View ArticleEquality Prevails at UN General Assembly; SOGI Independent Expert Position...
Today in the United Nations General Assembly, a cross-regional group of states affirmed the principles of universal human rights by blocking a hostile attempt to prevent the work established by... The...
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The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice is proud to announce a new call for proposals for our third cycle of our Intersex Human Rights Fund, launched in 2015 to honor... The post appeared first on...
View ArticleILGALAC welcomes the UN Independent Expert to Argentina
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex International Association for Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC) welcomes the historic visit of the first UN Independent Expert on protection...
View ArticleILGALAC report on the United Nations SOGI Independent Expert’s visit to...
Vitit Muntarbhorn, the first UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, ended his official ten-days visit to Argentina....
View Article#StopChechnya
ILGALAC (The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Intersexual International Association for Latin America and the Caribbean) condemns the human rights violations committed by the Chechen State and calls upon the...
View ArticleILGA launches State-Sponsored Homophobia report 2017
Download report here On May 15, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) launched the 12th edition of its flagship publication, State-Sponsored Homophobia – A...
View ArticleRegional Conference – First message to all ILGALAC organizations
VII REGIONAL CONFERENCE Apply Now On behalf of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex International Association for Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC) Regional Council and the host...
View ArticleILGA WELCOMES VICTOR MADRIGAL-BORLOZ’S APPOINTMENT AS NEW UN SOGI INDEPENDENT...
ILGA is delighted that Costa-Rican jurist, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, was today appointed the new UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. The appointment went through today at the...
View ArticleAplicaciones para el Fondo de Derechos Humanos Intersex
Astraea, Fundación Lésbica por la Justicia, se enorgullece en anunciar la nueva convocatoria de propuestas para el tercero ciclo de nuestro Fondo de Derechos Humanos Intersex. El fondo fue lanzado en...
View ArticleILGALAC and ABGLT call to vote for Fernando Haddad and defeat fascism in the...
The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association for Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC) and the Brazilian Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite, Transsexual...
View ArticleILGALAC has acquired legal personality status in Argentina
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex International Association for Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC) was finally recognized as a legal entity by the Argentine State on 20 November...
View ArticleRegistration are open for ILGALAC Conference
Querides miembres de ILGALAC, aliades, amigues y compañeres, En nombre del Consejo Regional de la Asociación Internacional de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales, Trans e Intersex (ILGALAC) y de la...
View ArticleTREATY BODIES: FIVE YEARS OF RESEARCH SHOW INTERNATIONAL LAW INCREASINGLY...
Submitted by Kseniya Kirichenko (ILGA World) The United Nations Treaty Bodies are an authoritative source of international law, and have steadily contributed to protecting the human rights of LGBTI...
View ArticleILGA WORLD launches Toolbox to combat “Conversion Therapies”
How can civil society organisations, key allies and policy makers join forces to ban ‘conversion therapies’? Which tools do they have available? Today ILGA World launched its Toolbox to combat...
View ArticleUN TREATY BODIES KEEP GUIDING STATES TOWARDS PROTECTING LGBTI RIGHTS, ILGA...
Issues affecting LGBTI persons worldwide are increasingly being considered by United Nations human rights bodies, research released today by ILGA World – The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans...
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