With LGBTI people worldwide, moving liberation forward for all
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Advocacy
ILGA World brings LGBTI people and expertise into the rooms where laws and policies take shape. Our member organisations advocate with the United Nations, regional bodies, and national governments, turning human rights standards into protections people can feel at home. Working with feminist, SRHR, democracy, climate justice, and other movements, we move freedom and justice forward for everyone.
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Knowledge production
ILGA World shares knowledge directly with the people building change. Our research maps the legal, social, and economic realities that LGBTI people face across every region, and the human rights systems designed to protect everyone. This is the evidence that activists need to challenge injustice, and that global rights fora, governments, and courts rely on to create a fairer world.
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Movement strengthening
Our chosen family is global, diverse, and fabulous! ILGA World connects organisations across regions, shares resources, and strengthens the skills of activists bringing about change to communities on the ground. Through regional networks, global conferences, and cross-movement action, ILGA World is a positive energy that carries everyone forward.
Latest news
- Explainers
- Press releases & statements
Start here: your guide to the new ilga.org
We welcome you to the new ILGA World website: built for every reader, with clear insight into what we do, and with information at hand. Discover what has changed!
- Press releases & statements
Beyond depathologisation: Securing the right to health for trans communities
It has been 7 years since the World Health Organisation depathologised trans identities in the International Classification of Diseases - 11th edition, yet trans and gender diverse communities still face higher levels of discrimination in healthcare
- Events
- Press releases & statements
ILGA-Europe conference 2026: When we rise, we rise for all of us
In October 2026, hundreds of LGBTI human rights defenders from across Europe and Central Asia gathered in Dublin, Ireland for the annual ILGA-Europe conference, under the theme "Resist and rise." Read the transcript of the rousing speech that our co-Secretary General Kimberly Frost delivered during the closing plenary
The ILGA regions
More than 2,300 organisations from over 170 countries and territories, forming the six ILGA regional organisations, call ILGA World their chosen family.
6 regions, more than 2,300 member organisations
ensuring people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics can exercise their rights
Latest reports
- Practical guides & advocacy toolkits
- United Nations & SOGIESC issues
UN human rights mechanisms: Essential guides & resources
Start here: essential guides, calendars and factsheets on the UN Human Rights Council, UPR, Special Procedures, Treaty Bodies and CSW, then go deeper
- United Nations & SOGIESC issues
HRC 63 session – ILGA World’s engagement (September – October 2026)
Learn more about how ILGA World engaged in the Human Rights Council (HRC) session 63 for our LGBTI communities globally
- Practical guides & advocacy toolkits
- United Nations & SOGIESC issues
Good practices guide for follow-up on United Nations recommendations
This is ILGA World’s first publication to bring together follow-up practices across treaty bodies, UPR, Special Procedures and the Sustainable Development Goals
ILGA World is a constellation of organisations that you can resonate with
Here is where the orbits of passionate LGBTI human rights defenders worldwide collide, making a profound impact on many lives everywhere. You too can join the ILGA World chosen family!