BRUNEI DARUSSALAM | 20130410130608| ILGA-ASIA
On 6-8 April 2013, Southeast Asia Women Caucus on ASEAN (Women’s Caucus) participated in the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF) 2013 held in Brunei Darussalam with the theme “ASEAN: Building Our Future Together.” According to the Women’s Caucus, as ASEAN aims to achieve a regional integration by 2015, ”One ASEAN Community” is possible only when people have a meaningful say in determining their own future. Women demand an ASEAN future that is firmly based on human rights and truly transformative, democratic and sustainable.

UNITED STATES | 20130410130553| ILGA-ASIA
Shulamith Firestone helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in itIn the late nineteen-sixties, Firestone and a small cadre of her “sisters” were at the radical edge of a movement that profoundly changed American society. At the time, women held almost no major elected positions, nearly every prestigious profession was a male preserve, homemaking was women’s highest calling, abortion was virtually illegal, and rape was a stigma to be borne in silence.

| 20130322151310| ILGA-ASIA
This session seeks papers that explore lesbian geographies in diverse geographical, social and cultural contexts. These papers can take a wide range of methodological, theoretical and empirical focuses. They can also take a broad interpretation and conceptualisation of 'lesbian'. They may even argue against the use of this sign and in this way address lesbian geographies.

| 20130319064150| ILGA-ASIA
A United Nations-backed survey revealed "shocking" statistics on men's use and experience of violence against women and girls. Preliminary results of the UN-backed study showed "one in two men said they used physical or sexual violence against an intimate partner, one in 4 reported having raped a woman and one in 25 admitted to having participated in gang rape."

| 20130307175107| UN ILGA
Panel held by ILGA/RFSL at the 57th Session of the CSW, Monday 4 March 2013 The panel presented the situation of violence against women based on sexual orientation and gender identity and gave examples of strategies to combat homophobia and transphobia.

CHINA | 20130307170920| UN ILGA
Using our own bodies to conveying the message regarding domestic violence Strategies of resistance: Combating violence against lesbian, bisexual and trans women Monday 4 March 2013

INDONESIA | 20130130144159| ILGA-ASIA
A lesbian couple who pretended to be straight to marry, was chased from their home on Batam Island, Indonesia when confronted by neighbors.

PHILIPPINES | 20130112230057| ILGA-ASIA
A Swedish court jailed a Swede for 8 years on Thursday, January 10, for paying poor women in the Philippines to rape young kids as he watched on a videolink from his computer in Sweden, local media reported.