PRESS RELEASE Contact: Renato Sabbadini, tel. +3225022471, renato@ilga.org Geneva, 25 July 2011 ECOSOS Council vote grants consultative status to ILGA With 30 votes in favour (India, Italy, Japan,…
Read moreIt’s common to think of Pride-related events as celebrations of gay and lesbian diversity, and indeed of community. Certainly that’s the spirit that pervades the Pride season in…
Read moreJuly 20, 2001—The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. Congress adopted an amendment late on Thursday calling on “the Secretary of State to discourage foreign governments from…
Read moreRepost from LGBT Asylum News Last week the British government announced that it was withdrawing budget support from the Malawian government. The move followed a diplomatic spat but…
Read moreRepost from Intergroup for LGBT Rights A new Law on the Provision of Information to the Public came into force on 30 June, outlawing discrimination based on sexual…
Read moreRepost from Hunter of Justice blog The Council of Europe has issued an extraordinarily thorough report (available on the web here) on the legal and social status of lgbt…
Read moreAfter a month of LGBT Pride celebrations with lots to celebrate at home and abroad we still have lots of work to do, Reed Karaim gives us an…
Read moreRepost from UNHCR WASHINGTON, DC, United States, June 29 (UNHCR) – Advocates like Neil Grungras are vital as accounts increasingly emerge of persecution and violence towards refugees and…
Read moreJune 28, 2011—Leaders of the LGBT Equality Caucus and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in the U.S. Congress sent a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Clinton…
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