Knowledge production
We transform legal and social data into trusted LGBTI research that advances equality, informs action, and supports lasting change for our communities worldwide.
How we do it
ILGA World makes LGBTI knowledge accessible to everyone. We took this commitment to our communities decades ago and have renewed it ever since.
From the Pink Book in the 1980s to the ILGA World Legal Survey in the 1990s, through the years of the landmark State-Sponsored Homophobia and Trans Legal Mapping Report to the present day, our LGBTI research has mapped laws affecting our communities across every region, described the social and economic challenges we face, and monitored the work of the human rights systems designed to protect everyone.
The term “State-sponsored homophobia” entered headlines and conversations across the world. Our findings were cited in historic court rulings that finally set millions of people free. Our LGBTQ reports inspired art that called for change.
Over the years, our human rights research has continued to evolve, remaining true to its mission.
These days, ILGA World maps continue to show how far from equality we still are. Through our free, interactive, and collaborative knowledge hub — the ILGA World Database —landmark publications like Laws on Us, Our Identities Under Arrest, and the Intersex Legal Mapping Report, along with the ILGA World Monitor, LGBTI advocacy toolkits, and explainers, we give activists, media, and decision-makers the evidence for advocacy, narratives, and laws. Through LGBTI Pathways, we map funding gaps to transform the quality and quantity of resources for our communities around the world.
This is the information that human rights defenders need to challenge injustice and that policymakers, governments, and courts rely on to create a fairer world.
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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!
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LGBTI Pathways
LGBTI Pathways is a research project developing evidence on the needs and funding landscape of the international and regional LGBTI movements.
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With our LGBTI communities worldwide at the 63rd UN Human Rights Council
The 63rd United Nations Human Rights Council begins today, and ILGA World will be with and for our LGBTI communities worldwide! Learn more about what will happen during the coming weeks
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7 key takeaways from the UN’s first report on lesbian, bisexual and queer women
Explore the key findings of the historic publication presented by the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, addressing the violence and discrimination affecting lesbian, bisexual, and queer women
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ILGA World further strengthens support to LGBTI activists turning UN recommendations into real change
Access new, practical, hands-on tools for engaging the United Nations human rights system: the fully revised 2026 edition of the "SOGIESC UPR advocacy toolkit" and the brand-new "Good practices guide for follow-up on United Nations recommendations"
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More than 900 survey responses, one room: LGBTI Pathways partners meet to begin data analysis
In June 2026, staff from the Global Philanthropy Project, ILGA World and the Pathways global technical team met in Tallinn, Estonia, to review the first round of analysis of the LGBTI Pathways survey data. Here is what we found
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Pride Match in Seattle: What happens when the FIFA World Cup and Pride collide?
The Pride Match in Seattle celebrates both Pride and the FIFA World Cup, with Egypt and Iran facing off: solidarity and visibility must come with responsibility, accountability, and a harm-reduction approach
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With our global LGBTI communities at the 62nd UN Human Rights Council (HRC62)
The 62nd session of the UN Nations Human Rights Council begins in Geneva, and ILGA World will be there for our global LGBTI communities. Find out more about what we will focus on
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Pride Month: new ILGA World data and maps on laws affecting LGBTI people globally
The latest data and maps from the ILGA World Database indicate that States and law enforcement continue to create barriers to LGBTI people exercising their basic rights