GHANA | 20120201125949| Pan Africa ILGA
Homosexuality has engaged the attention of the public and is, undoubtedly, one of the prime heated debates in the world and particularly in Africa. Ghana has not been spared.

PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED | 20120129005822| ILGA-ASIA
After months of planning and preparation, the first LGBTIQ delegation made it to Palestine in early January 2012. Below is the delegation's statement in which they describe their visit and express their solidarity with the Palestinian people. Please read, sign, and circulate widely!

UNITED KINGDOM | 20120203142507|
First Criminal Conviction in Britain for the Offence of Stirring up Hatred on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation On 20 January 2012, a jury in Britain’s Derby Crown Court delivered a guilty verdict to three out of five men charged with the offence ...

ISRAEL | 20120124093536| ILGA-ASIA
Israeli transgender man Topper gives birth to healthy baby boy in Greater Tel Aviv.

JAMAICA | 20120131224458| ILGA-ASIA
Read the remarks by Maurice Tomlinson, AIDS-Free World's Legal Advisor on Marginalized Groups, upon receiving the inaugural 'David Kato Vision and Voice Award.'

UNITED STATES | 20120131230309| ILGA-ASIA
BORN this way. That has long been one of the rallying cries of a movement, and sometimes the gist of its argument. Across decades of widespread ostracism, followed by years of patchwork acceptance and, most recently, moments of heady triumph, gay people invoked that phrase to explain why homophobia was unwarranted and discrimination senseless.

AUSTRALIA | 20120201131202| Pan Africa ILGA
Our communities rarely talk about or even understand intersex which is a part of our ‘LGBTI’, so it may as well stand for ‘invisible’.

| 20120129010840| ILGA-ASIA
The International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) has named Françoise Girard, long-time women's champion in the fields of global health and human rights, as its new President. Girard has a distinguished history in these fields with a particular focus on women's health, sexual and reproductive rights, sexuality and HIV/AIDS.