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A Celebration of Courage 2013: Thank you!
Thank you for helping us make this year's A Celebration of Courage 2013 a success! On May 13, we had the pleasure of honoring Dr. Binnaz Toprak, Yasemin Öz, and Dorothy Sander for their significant, lasting, and heroic contributions to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement worldwide. View photos »
Latest News: Global Advocacy
We’ve had five “Gender and Sexuality Training” days so far. In every instance, the training starts off with blue-uniformed police officers sitting ramrod straight, stoically listening to their superior officers opening the session, not quite knowing what to expect. Then Ging Cristobal, from IGLHRC, comes in with her first workshop activity, a lesbian lecturer entering the lions’ den. Within a few minutes, she has the room shouting “Darna!” in cheerful unison, and the ice is broken.
As part of the partnership forged by IGLHRC and LADLAD LGBT Party, members of the Philippines National Police went through LGBT sensitivity training, called “Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights workshops.” In this two-part series, featured in The New Civil Rights Movement, facilitators of the workshops share their experiences and reflect on the program.
(June 3, 2013. London)—The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) is deeply concerned with the excessive use of force by Turkish police against peaceful demonstrators in Istanbul and Ankara over the past week.
Human rights defenders, groups, individuals and civil society organizations are demanding that the recent passage of the ‘Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill and other Related Matters’ by the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria be rescinded. The provisions of the propose bill infringe upon the fundamental rights provisions of the Constitution.
On May 24, 2013 the Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) at the United Nations recommended the Australian Lesbian Medical Association (ALMA) for consultative status and recommended Homosexuelle Initiative (HOSI) Wien on May 28. The organizations will not have official consultative status until adopted by ECOSOC’s full committee in July 2013. The recommendation is viewed as a critical step, given past discrimination against LGBT organizations.