Discrimination and Equality

Global News

Added on: 07/09/2018
07/09/2018
A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court will on Tuesday hear petitions for scrapping Section 377 of the penal code, a 149-year-old archaic law which criminalizes…

Global News

Added on: 07/09/2018
07/08/2018
When the prototype version of Pride London took place in 1972, it was sneered at by a media that was “universally hostile”, according to veteran LGBT activist…

Global News

Added on: 07/09/2018
I will openly admit that I have been gay since 2008 when I came out right in front of a crowd of people. Thus, when I was…

Global News

Added on: 07/09/2018
07/08/2018
Two judges of an Ecuadorian court have ruled against that nation’s ban on same-sex marriage. The pair of judges sit on the Family, Women, Children and Adolescents…

Global News

Added on: 07/08/2018
07/07/2018
The Supreme Court nominee President Trump is expected to announce on Monday could play as large a role in unraveling LGBT rights as retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy…

Global News

Added on: 07/08/2018
When the news broke last week that a 41-year-old man from Kelantan had married an 11-year-old girl, alarm bells went off in Malaysia’s newly elected government as…

Global News

Added on: 07/07/2018
More than 100 CEOs will march together at Budapest Pride Saturday. Meanwhile, the embassies of 34 countries around the world expressed their support for the rights of…

Global News

Added on: 07/07/2018
Days ahead of the crucial hearing on a clutch of petitions challenging the validity of section 377 of the IPC that criminalises consensual gay sex, the Chief…

Global News

Added on: 07/07/2018
07/06/2018
A video of a heated altercation between three men in drag and police officers in the city of Suzhou has started tens of thousands of people talking…

Global News

Added on: 07/07/2018
07/06/2018
Hundreds of thousands of people will line the streets on Saturday to celebrate the LGBT community at Pride in London. But many LGBT black people say they…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018
Caribbean Forum for Liberation and Acceptance of Genders and Sexualities (CariFLAGS) is a regional nonprofit based in Trinidad and Tobago made up of leading LGBTI NGOs across…

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Added on: 02/01/2018
J-FLAG operates under four broad objectives to ensure that an individual’s sexual orientation and/or gender identity are not used to discriminate against them. We work to increase…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018
Our primary beneficiaries include LGBT Guyanese persons, and others who do not identify as heterosexual or cis-gender. SASOD focuses its work on combating homophobia, advancing human rights,…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018
Programs: Regional and International Advocacy: Akahatá is working to advance human rights at international bodies such as the United Nations and Organization of American States (OAS) since…

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Added on: 02/01/2018
We are ambitious: By 2020, Prague Pride aims to be Czech Republic’s leading LGBT Centre of Influence for its excellence in advocacy, services for the LGBT community…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018
When initiated, the Zagreb Pride March was conceived as a protest march against homophobia, transphobia and patriarchy, while at the same time it has been a tool…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018
The vision of the founding fathers of the Republic of Indonesia has always been a pluralist, multi-cultural society where even sexual minorities should have their rightful place….

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
Heartland Alliance’s Global Initiative for Sexuality and Human Rights (GISHR) stands behind activists who are improving the lives of LGBT persons — promoting their rights and protecting them…

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Added on: 01/31/2018
The Advocates for Human Rights (The Advocates) is a volunteer-based non-governmental organization committed to the impartial promotion and protection of international human rights standards and the rule…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
AJWS is the fourth largest U.S.-based funder of global LGBTI rights worldwide. Since 2005, AJWS has invested nearly $9.5 million in global LGBTI rights. In 2013 alone,…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
The Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice is a multi-gendered, multi-racial, multi-identity organization that prioritizes and supports the leadership of women, transgender people, youth, and people of color….

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
The Human Rights Watch lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights program has fought for over a decade to end human rights violations based on sexual orientation…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
LGBT rights are human rights, period. Human Rights First works to ensure that these rights are incorporated into the United States’ foreign policy agenda and advanced on…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018
Advocates for Youth works across the U.S. and developing world to advance youth sexual health and rights to further a vision of a society in which all…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/24/2018
Alternatives-Cameroun’s mission includes advocating nationally and internationally for the human rights of the LGBTI population. The association also provides direct support to individual community members in the form…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/20/2018
With more than 7 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries, and complete independence from government, corporate or ideological interests, we work to protect…

World Voices

Added on: 09/20/2017
Alturi Contributor
Since 1989, it has been a member of the Ministry of Heath’s National Commission to Control AIDS, and since 1995 it has been one of the coordinators of the…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2017
Robert Blackmon
Alturi Project Director
“I came out as bisexual to my younger brother when I started college and he was very supportive. I was living at home at the time and…

World Voices

Added on: 08/20/2017
Alturi Contributor
Following a series of hate crime attacks, members of Namibia’s LGBT community took to the streets of the capital Windhoek for a Pride march on Saturday, July…

World Voices

Added on: 03/14/2017
Robert Blackmon
Alturi Project Director
Joseph Aoun manages Helem’s newly reopened community center – one of the few safe spaces for LGBTIQ residents of Beirut. He came to the organization seven months…