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annual report 2015 Uniting communities and movements Thanks and acknowledgements The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association is grateful for the work and support of its volunteers, staff and executive board. A heartfelt thank you goes to the members of ILGA not only for their financial support, but also for the time and energy they commit to furthering the organisation’s aims and objectives. Last but not least, our thanks to the following organisations: 02 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 Advancing equality The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) is a worldwide federation of organisations committed to equal human rights for LGBTI people and their liberation from all forms of discrimination. Founded in 1978, it enjoys consultative status at the United Nations, where it speaks and lobbies on behalf of almost 1,200 member organisations from 131 countries. Vision Strategic plan 2014-2018 ILGA is committed to help shaping a world where the human rights of all are respected; where everyone can live in equality and freedom; where global justice and equity are assured and established regardless of the people’s sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and bodily diversity. become a representative voice of LGBTI civil society within international organisations, particularly the United Nations, through collaboration, engagement, and support of members and partners. promote diversity, advance equality and effective application and enjoyment of human rights standards and principles without discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression, and sex (intersex). reinforce and develop ILGA’s organisational capacity (executive board, staff, regions and members) to achieve political, social and institutional change. Mission act as a leading organisation and a global voice for the rights of those who face discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression and sex (intersex). work towards achieving equality, freedom and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people through advocacy, collaborative action, and by educating and informing relevant international and regional institutions as well as governments, media and civil society. empower our members and other human rights organisations in promoting and protecting human rights, irrespective of people’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression and sex (intersex), and to facilitate cooperation and solidarity among ILGA regions and members. promote the diversity and strengths of LGBTI people around the world. ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 03 D ear friends, ILGA is built on the energy and passion of its global membership and this year’s Annual Report captures the interactions and dynamics present in every aspect of our work. Passionate and restless activists, along with partners, allies and families, continue to have a profound impact on many LGBTIQ lives around the world. 2015 was marked with groundbreaking moments around the world, and we take this opportunity to salute our members and activists who have worked for years to achieve these. Whilst we celebrate the successes, we continue to recognise the tireless and unseen work carried out in countries and communities facing injustices, setbacks or backlashes. We also remember the lives taken away by hate-motivated crimes and continue to celebrate these lives through our work. 04 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 ILGA represents networks, movements, communities, and bodies that continue to challenge oppressive and discriminatory systems, practices and norms that exclude, outlaw, mutilate and kill LGBTIQ people. Around the world, LGBTIQ movements and communities are led by those who fight these injustices. Their commitment and work help strengthen the links between local, national, regional and international communities of activists, and this is what ILGA is about. The work carried out at our office in Geneva and the regional offices in Bangkok, Brussels, Buenos Aires and Johannesburg reflects this complex web that is the global LGBTIQ movement. This report represents one year in the work of this organisation that continues to represent ever-changing and ever-growing communities and movements determined to help shaping a world where everyone can live safely, equally and free. In the last year, we developed new partnerships, embarked on new projects, increased our capacity and strengthened our governance structures, aiming at continuing to strengthen the 38-year-old legacy that ILGA has. We continue to be encouraged and inspired by all the positive energy that our movements represent, and we will continue to ensure that ILGA remains a global leader for the LGBTIQ movement. In Solidarity, Ruth Baldacchino, Helen Kennedy Co-Secretaries General A t the end of the second year of its 2014-2018 Strategic plan, ILGA finds itself in a process of sustained growth, both in terms of membership and activities. While members have grown from 1,112 to 1,167, the number and kind of activities has expanded considerably: advocacy at the UN Human Rights Council is no longer limited to the Universal Periodic Review and to lobbying activities in support of resolutions, but covers also Treaty Bodies; the content of the State Sponsored Homophobia report increases in extension of the issues covered and in the depth of the information provided, while ILGA partners with a Canadian data corporation, RIWI, to launch a global attitudes survey on LGBTI people in 65 countries as an innovative tool to acquire essential data for NGOs and allies to measure the effectiveness of their work on the ground and to improve on it. The increasing interest and capacity in dealing with LGBTI-related data at the global level has also led us to cooperate on a project about a global LGBTI inclusion index promoted by the United Nations Development Programme. At the same time, the connection of ILGA with its Trans members and non-member organisations is revitalised thanks to the launch of the Gender Identity and Gender Expression programme, while the newly established Intersex secretariat confirms its relevance within the global Intersex movement. The regional structures of ILGA in the global South are successfully building their capacity, especially in the case of Pan Africa ILGA, to provide the members in their regions with more opportunities to meet, to share and acquire new knowledge and skills and to better coordinate their advocacy in relation to their respective regional human rights bodies, while the participation of ILGA in the consortium of NGOs behind the EU funded initiative ProtectDefenders.eu provides us for the first time with concrete tools to help and support LGBTI human rights defenders in difficulty or even in danger. This process of growth, however, does not come without challenges: the expansion of activities requires on the one hand both greater professionalism and increased funding to implement them, while posing the risk of stretching the energies of the organisation too thin. We like to look at these challenges as opportunities: the increased visibility of ILGA and the relevance of its work will attract new funders and professionals willing to work for us, while the check and balances of our governance will ensure that the new activities remain within the possibility of the organisation and centred on our mission. This process of growth would not be possible without the leadership of the co-secretaries general and the board, the dedication and professionalism of the staff members and – ultimately – the support of the whole membership: these three elements are and will continue to be the key ingredients of ILGA’s success. Renato Sabbadini Executive Director ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 05 2015 in numbers 2015 in numbers North America 100 Europe 492 Latin America & Caribbean 295 06 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 1,167 member organisations from 131 countries representing 6 regions 13 organisations or coalitions assisted in their advocacy before 7 different Treaty Bodies 2 regional conferences held 3 awareness-raising side events hosted during 1 region (Pan Africa ILGA) officially registered as a non-profit organisation 2 new staff members joining the ILGA World team 27 statements delivered at the United Nations three sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council 6,755 Facebook page likes 10,412 Twitter followers Human Rights Council raising LGBTI issues 38 LinkedIn followers 17 29 issues of the weekly LGBulleTIn published human rights defenders welcomed to Geneva for the UPR advocacy weeks 10 media releases and statements issued 9 LGBTI human rights defenders interviewed for the ILGA meets… series 1 social media campaign: What Does The UN Say? Asia 131 Africa 104 Oceania 45 ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 07 Our regions ILGALAC In 2015 Latin America and the Caribbean took giant leaps forward: the Civil union pact was approved in Chile, the ban on blood donations from LGBTI persons was dropped in Argentina, and Jamaica held the country’s first Pride parade. The regional council of ILGALAC supported initiatives like the adoption of an employment quota for trans people by the Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), or the project to increase punishments for aggravated crimes based on homophobia in El Salvador. 2015 was a busy year also in ILGALAC’s office: our first press dossier about LGBTI adoptions in Colombia was published; we revamped our website, issued weekly regional news bulletins and launched our social media campaign #SomosILGALAC. We published two books about labour rights of LGBTI persons, in cooperation with ISP, and organised a ph. ILGALAC 08 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 forum on lesbian and bisexual health during an international meeting in the Dominican Republic. We were also involved in a report ondevelopment,sexualorientation and gender identity in Uruguay, and we contributed to the birth of the Regional Centre for LAC in cooperation with Civicus and Counterpart International. like the writer Pedro Lemebel, or the murders of trans activists Francela Méndez from El Salvador and Diana Sacayán from Argentina. Our council members were involved also at the international level: they took part both in the CSW and in the 7th Summit of the Americas, as well as in the Regional conference on Population and development in LAC and in the European Governmental LGBT Focal Points Network. The Executive Director signed a cooperation agreement with INADI in Argentina, and held meetings with the World Bank, Open Society Foundation, IDB, Human Rights First, USAID, HRCampaigne and OAS. 2014 was a groundbreaking year for ILGA-Asia: its first office was opened in Hong Kong, and later registered with the local authorities. Building on the momentum, 2015 marked other important steps for the region. ILGA-Asia hired its first-ever office coordinator, Sattara Hattirat, and worked throughout the year to develop its organisational structures, looking to make its spaces more democratic and inclusive for both members and non-members. Sadly, this year was marked also by terrible losses of activists and key members of our community, These were the guidelines under which the 6th regional conference was organised: the event ILGA Asia ph. Tongzhi Hotline took in Taiwan in October, gathering more than 360 activists and human rights defenders who took part in three days of workshops and roundtables, and then joined tens of thousands people marching in the Taipei Pride parade. A new board was also elected during the conference: its members immediately carried on the work of their predecessors to implement ILGA-Asia’s strategic and action plan, aiming to see the region grow more and more as a relevant advocacy member-based LGBTIQ organisation, serving and addressing the needs and priorities of communities in the continent. ILGA Oceania Despite being the smallest in terms of population, ILGA Oceania is perhaps the most diverse among all the organisation’s regions, spanning across a wide range of time zones, islands and cultures. It should come as no surprise, then, that ILGA Oceania has worked since its very first moments to see the diversity of cultural values being more and more respected within the human rights framework. During 2015, such efforts were made both towards the organisation and outwards: as much as region representatives joined the Pacific UN Free & Equal campaign, and they committed to audit all of the organisation’s communications for oppressive language. The last twelve months saw the representation of the Oceania region growing within the ILGA family, and enter more and more the field of vision of international funders. An amazing result, that could not have happened without the constant commitment of grassroots activists: we are grateful to them all, and owe a special “thank you” to those who started working three months in advance to make the 2016 ILGA Oceania conference possible. The whole community has taken the work done by the former ILGA ANZAPI and is building on that momentum, to see the human rights of LGBTI persons advance both in the region and internationally. The fires have indeed been stoked and ILGA Oceania is a region to watch in the future. ph. ILGA Oceania ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 09 Our regions Pan Africa ILGA Big news for Pan Africa ILGA broke on a late July day: the application it had filed months before was approved and granted. Starting 2015, Pan Africa ILGA is registered as a non-profit organisation: a tremendous gain benefitting both the organisation and its members, most of which still face state-imposed restrictions on their abilities to function as legitimate partners in civil society in their countries. Such a victory made the organisation as strong as ever: a new coordinator and a communications officer were appointed, and the secretariat began operating in a Johannesburg, South Africa office shared with Iranti-Org. Pan Africa ILGA worked throughout the year to strengthen its advocacy initiatives. In June 2015, it conducted its first training on the UN human rights bodies, bringing together activists from 14 countries due for their Universal Periodic Review. A training on African human rights mechanisms was also organised, with 25 LGBTI human rights defenders convening in Abuja, Nigeria to learn more on how to engage with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Finally, the organisation held a pre-conference at the Changing Faces – Changing Spaces conference in Kenya, exploring how to look at the struggle to advance the human rights of LGBTI people through a pan-African lens. 10 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 ph. Pan Africa ILGA While busy preparing its 2016 regional conference, Pan Africa ILGA also launched The personal is political, a series of roundtable forums for human rights defenders to explore challenges and opportunities in building a powerful and resilient LGBTI movement in the continent. ILGA North America 2015 will be remembered as the year same-sex marriage arrived in the United States. While we have all celebrated this victory, we have not forgotten that the struggle towards equality is still far from over. This is why our region represented ILGA at two hemispheric human rights meetings of the Organization of American States, where we worked on establishing relationships with the OAS LGBTI coalition, advocated on pro-SOGI resolutions and pressed for legislative reform to protect the bodily autonomy of intersex children. Our advocacy work reached even further: we intervened at the UN Human Rights Committee’s review of Canada’s non-compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, we participated in Education International’s world congress and we joined a meeting on LGBTI human rights in Honduras with the US embassy. We built relationships with labour organisations, drafting a cooperation agreement with the Americas office of Public Services International, and we made our voices heard, working with civil society organisations in the review of the Canadian government’s obligations under the UN’s Treaty on economic and social rights. ph. ILGA North America ILGA-Europe After a busy year, a number of challenges still lies ahead: we will be producing a guide to navigating the Organization of American States that is conscious of religious rights strategies, and we commit to building stronger partnerships with ILGA LAC to better work together not only within the OAS, but also for the forthcoming Miami 2017 OutGames. We will also be advocating new ILGA World membership guidelines, so that our members particularly those in marginalized communities - find more voice at the organisation’s world conference. The ever-growing regional LGBTI movement has to operate in times of political confusion: in 2015, the fact that human rights defenders struggle to make their voices heard was all too evident. Nevertheless, the movement scored some important victories in the bygone year, too. Just to mention a few: Ireland voted for marriage equality and introduced gender recognition legislation based on self-determination; Malta extended legal protection to trans and intersex people; Cyprus and Greece approved civil unions for samesex couples. Having to deal with such a everchanging environment, ILGAEurope followed in pursuit to keep LGBTI equality at the top of the EU’s agenda, engaging with European Union’s bodies, grassroots civil society organisations and national policy-makers. Since the 2014 annual conference in Riga, ILGA-Europe organised 13 conferences and as much training sessions; had meetings with 10 national governments and with several high-level officials; submitted 43 policy papers to different European public consultations, as well as 6 third-party interventions to the European Court of Human Rights; re-granted 45 grants for projects carried out by member and partner organisations, and created three new programmes to provide resources to LGBTI persons and their allies. ILGA-Europe created alliances with NGOs working in the areas of women’s rights, sexual and reproductive health and faithbased groups to see how they can work together to increase support for choice and dignity for all in Europe. Among all this, ILGA-Europe also found the time to organise its first-ever fundraising Gala, to hold its annual regional conference in Athens and to move its team of 17 persons into a new office space in Brussels. A great body of work, which ILGA-Europe will build upon throughout 2016: a year that will bring new challenges to the LGBTI movement in the region, and that will also mark the organisation’s 20th anniversary. ph. ILGA-Europe ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 11 Regional conferences ILGA-Europe: Athens, 28-31 October 2015 Let the numbers speak for themselves: with more than 450 registered participants from 53 countries, dozens of speakers and over 40 workshops held in just four days, 2015 has seen the biggest ILGA-Europe conference to date. Hosted by OLKE in collaboration with a handful of other organisations in Athens, Greece, the conference and its sheer size provided a clear illustration of how strong the European LGBTI movement can be, especially when it opens conversations with allies. As the goal of equality is fiercely threatened by opposition groups, ILGA-Europe recognised the need to work to ensure that the whole LGBTI movement benefits legal, political and social change: no one must be left behind, and this is why Many voices, one movement - Together, mobilised for a just society was chosen as the theme of the conference. Workshops and sessions were organised to explore intersectionality issues and to offer ph. ILGA-Europe and Tongzhi Hotline 12 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 more visibility to minority groups within the LGBTI community, and the first ILGA-Europe Diversity Awards, bestowed on LGBTI People With Disabilities, was presented in an effort to recognise good practices in promoting inclusiveness. The four days in Athens, then, also saw Darienne Flemington, DraganaTodorovic, Yuri Guaiana, Vladimir Simonko and Micah Grzywnowicz being elected new ILGA-Europe board members. Meanwhile, in an unprecedented show of support for the rights of LGBTI people, representatives from all the main Greek parliamentary parties signed an equality pledge during the conference, committing to advance registered partnership, family law reform, legal gender recognition and combating discrimination in the country. Less than two months after the announcement, Greece became the 26th European country to recognise same-sex partnerships. ILGA Asia: Taipei, 28-30 October 2015 In late October, 362 delegates of LGBTI organisations from around the world - as well as representatives of UN agencies, governments, the ASEAN SOGIE caucus, the European Union and national human rights souls and bodies of LGBTI persons who still suffer from stigma, pathologisation and many more human rights violations. During the conference, member organisations adopted a plan to hold sub-regional consultations organisation’s strategic plan: ILGA Asia is currently processing the raw data records collected during the conference, and hopes to obtain results that will lead to producing comprehensive materials for advocacy. and activities around advocacy and awareness campaigns, and also delivered statements on the issues of inclusivity of intersex persons, inclusion and diversity – particularly of diverse women – and gender incongruence of childhood. commissions – gathered in Taipei for the sixth ILGA Asia regional conference. The event, preceded by a Trans and an Intersex pre-conference, was hosted by the Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association, and came as a precious occasion for human rights defenders to discuss networked initiatives and advance equality in Asia, reclaiming independence for New regional board members from South Korea, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand and Indonesia, offering a broad representation of the SOGIESC spectrum, were elected from a list of eleven nominees: Minhee Ryu, Hiker Chiu, Shakhawat Hossain, Manisha Dhakal, Kritipat Chotidhanitsakul (Jimmy), and Lia Vica will remain in office for the next two years. The conference gave ILGA-Asia the chance to gain further insight about what LGBTIQ communities ask the organisation in terms of contributing to grassroots activism and regional advocacy strategies. Their requests will now be integrated into the ph. ILGA-Europe and Tongzhi Hotline ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 13 Secretariats Women’s secretariat United and Strong INC (Saint Lucia) represented by Kenita Placide A just society cannot be developed without the empowerment of all women. And yet, even today, women and girls are still experiencing inequality and harsh realities throughout the world. LBTI women face even higher risks of being subject to violence and discrimination on various levels, and this - as the Women’s secretariat of ILGA highlighted in a statement delivered during the 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council - is something that “neither cultural diversity nor freedom of religion” can justify. The Women’s secretariat worked throughout 2015 to bring to the fore how multiple forms of violence and discrimination affect the lives of lesbian, bisexual, trans and intersex women, and to raise awareness of the specific struggles facing them. This happened first and foremost on the international level: the secretariat engaged with governments and civil society representatives at the 59th session of the Commission of the Status of Women, and was consulted during the works that will eventually lead to the adoption of the UNDP LGBTI Inclusion Index. It also took part in the inaugural Commonwealth Women’s Forum, and participated in the first People’s Forum to ever host sessions on LGBTI perspectives, held a few days ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta. The secretariat was also involved in organising the third Caribbean Women and Sexual Diversity Conference: hosted together with CariFLAGS Eastern Caribbean Hub and Womantra, with the support of the Women’s Caucus of Trinidad and Tobago, the conference allowed more than 50 LBT women and straight allies from all over Latin America and the Caribbean to come together, share their experiences in advocating human rights, join forces and strategize on how to pursue the freedom and liberty of all women. Intersex secretariat MULABI - Espacio Latinoamericano de Sexualidades y Derechos (Costa Rica) represented by Natasha Jiménez Mata One of 2015’s groundbreaking moments saw Malta becoming the first country in the world to approve a law prohibiting normalizing genital surgeries on intersex infants. Much more work still lies ahead, though, and ILGA’s first-ever Intersex secretariat committed tirelessly throughout 2015 to raising awareness and advancing the human rights of intersex persons. The secretariat took part in the Forum on Civil Society at the pre-Summit of the Americas and in June, soon before delivering a statement at the UN Human Rights Council in response to the High Commissioner’s report on female genital mutilation, it joined a meeting with the Special Rapporteur on the right to health. These efforts paved the way for the unprecedented events that followed: during his opening statement at the 30th session of the Human Rights Council, the ph. Facebook / Kenita Placide 14 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 High Commissioner for Human Rights specifically talked about intersex persons. Two days later, the first UN-convened expert meeting on intersex was held. While continuing to work at a United Nations’ level, the secretariat also supported the Intersex European Forum that gathered dozens of activists in the French city of Douarnenez, and took part in a meeting of LGBTI political leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean. An Intersex workshop, then, took place during the ILGA Asia Intersex pre-conference: the event marked an unprecedented chance for community members in the region to share stories and resources, and culminated in an Intersex Asia Coming Out Day, when six activists were invited to the stage of the biggest Pride parade in the region and were introduced to nearly 80,000 people marching for equality. Trans secretariat STRAP – Society of Transsexual Women Philippines (Philippines) represented by Mikee Inton and Brenda Alegre In essence, the Trans secretariat had a good year. Good, as it got exposed to current issues faced by trans people worldwide; and good, as it was able to connect human rights defenders and organisations from around the world, and helped them network. The overarching theme of intersectionality as an approach to human rights advocacy, a guiding principle for all of the organisation’s work, surfaced many times during the year also for the secretariat, and especially during the ILGA-Asia Trans pre-conference. The event was attended by more than 40 human rights defenders and activists, who issued a statement – consistent with the Cape Town declaration - to support the ban of gender identity diagnoses in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). It was a truly defining moment, marking the commitment of the secretariat to supporting the global movement fighting against gender incongruence in childhood. In 2015, the secretariat also gave a talk on a panel at the Commission of the Status of Women, and took part in meetings with UNDP, UN Women and Unicef; it was represented at the ILGA-Europe conference, and it joined the conversation about the fight against fundamentalism at the Outsummit. All these occasions allowed the secretariat to highlight best practices in advocacy, and also to connect with human rights defenders committed to advancing equality. This network will surely of help in furthering the secretariat’s new project on Trans Terminologies, a collection of write-ups from around the world about local terms that refer to trans or trans-like identities. Currently in the works, it will hopefully be launched at the 2016 ILGA World Conference in Bangkok. ph. APTN / ILGA World Trans Secretariat ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 15 ILGA AT THE UNITED NATIONS 16 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 As the only global federation of LGBTI organisations, ILGA uses its access at the UN to raise the visibility and protection of LGBTI persons at various United Nations fora. The last twelve months proved crucial for the organisation to gain even greater strength. In May 2015, ILGA appointed a new UN Programme officer, Helen Nolan, and has launched a programme to better engage with the UN Treaty Bodies – the independent organs that monitor State compliance with international human rights law treaties. With an expanded team, to which three interns also gave an invaluable contribution throughout the year, ILGA could start to focus on UN Special Procedures, while continuing to conduct advocacy at the Human Rights Council, or help member organizations to question their governments’ record on LGBTI human rights within the Universal Periodic Review, or raise LBTI visibility at the Commission on the Status of Women. The ILGA UN team also reached out beyond these mainstream UN spaces. In 2015, it took part in various advocacy weeks, conducted trainings, worked to establish a coalition of NGOs supporting diverse family inclusion in UN spaces, and engaged in platforms addressing HIV/AIDS response and the intersectionality of faith and LGBTI human rights. Thanks to the hard work of many, ILGA is giving voice to grassroots, national and regional LGBTI civil society at the international level with ever-growing efficacy. 2016 will see the association building on that momentum, and continuing its call for positive change for LGBTI persons worldwide. ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 17 ILGA engages three times a year with the UN Human Rights Council, and 2015 was no exception: much had to be done to build on the energy Council’s successful approval in 2014 of its second SOGI resolution. During the 28th session, ILGA followed-up on statements delivered by States commenting on that resolution, and responded to the report by the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. The pace picked up dramatically in the 29th session. In fact, SOGI issues took centre stage again after the new OHCHR report on Discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity was released. ILGA led, joined and delivered fifteen SOGIESC-specific statements. It also coordinated a joint statement made by over 400 civil society organizations, calling on governments to take further action at the Human Rights Council. Two side events – organised with ISHR and Civicus, and with the governments of the USA and Brazil respectively – were also convened. The 30th session began with the historic mention of human rights violations facing intersex persons by the High Commissioner for Human Rights during his opening remarks, and continued with ILGA delivering eight SOGIESC-related statements. The organisation also convened a side event with intersex human rights defenders. New challenges and opportunities await in 2016: the year will probably see a third SOGI resolution, and ILGA has already begun consulting with both civil society and government representatives. 18 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 For the first time in the organisation’s history, in May 2015, ILGA launched a new programme to better engage with the UN Treaty Bodies. The early days of the programme centred on consultations with organisations already contributing to committees, and to establish a working group to share strategies. Later in the year, ILGA briefed experts in the annual joint meeting of the Committee against Torture and the Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture regarding torture risks to LGBTI persons; it assisted in a briefing of the Human Rights Committee on intersex persons, and also made a submission in consultation with Kaleidoscope, ICJ and ISHR to the Human Rights Committee on its draft General Comment on the Right to Life. Throughout the year, ILGA maintained its core work of supporting LGBTI organisations in engaging with the committees, assisting 13 NGOs and coalitions in preparing reports and/or their advocacy in Geneva before seven different Treaty Bodies. Historically, ILGA has engaged in the UN Special Procedures on an ad hoc basis only. Starting 2015, though, thanks to its newly expanded team, the organisation began to interact more often with this system of independent human rights experts. ILGA met and connected LGBTI human rights defenders with a wide range of Special Procedures. The organisation also notified its members of upcoming country visits by Special Procedures so that they could share information on SOGIESC issues. ILGA began to make submissions to Special Procedures in order to ensure that their thematic reports made SOGIESC references where relevant. Submissions were made to shape the reports of the Special Rapporteur on health on mental health and on adolescents, the Working Group on Discrimination against Women’s report on health and security, and the Special Rapporteur on housing’s report on homelessness. The organisation also provided “ILGA was greatly helpful not only logistically but also emotionally because lobbying at the UN sometimes can make one feel helpless and intimidated in front of experts.” (Azusa Yamashita, Gay Japan News) The Committees have shown some sensitivity to a wide variety of important issues for LGBTI human rights defenders. Encouragingly, between 2014 and 2015, there was an increase from 34% to 46% of country reviews that resulted in Concluding Observations containing SOGIESC issues. Further engagement with the UN Treaty Bodies will be crucial for the advancement of the human rights of LGBTI persons in the years ahead. substantial comments for the report of the Special Rapporteur on health on sports and healthy lifestyles, as wells as for the report of the Special Rapporteur on torture’s report on detention. All of the published reports above contain in-depth discussion of SOGIESC issues. ILGA supported the Women’s secretariat in its engagement at the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women held in March 2015 in New York, which focused on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action twenty years after its adoption, at the Fourth World Conference on Women. During the session, ILGA worked in coalition with other NGOs to hold an awareness-raising side event, monitored developments of the debate and met with government representatives, encouraging them to include references to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics in the language endorsed by the CSW. As a crucial occasion for networking and discussing common strategies, ILGA also maintained an email group to facilitate discussion on LBTI issues during the session. In 2015 ILGA assisted LGBTI human rights defenders from 16 of the countries being reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review mechanism. The team has variously supported both their presence in Geneva and their preparation of reports and statements to be delivered, while also monitoring recommendations made at the working group sessions. This strategy is leading to important results. During the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review, due to end in 2016, there has been an increase in recommendations on issues of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics both being made and accepted: an indication that more and more LGBTI human rights defenders are being heard in the “ILGA provided us with tools and guidelines on the process both on the ground in Bolivia and in Geneva. Without their support, our participation would have been something impossible to achieve.” (Frank Evelio Arteaga. MANODIVERSA. Bolivia) As civil society is involved in every step of the lengthy and often complicated reviews of their countries, ILGA puts special effort to help them navigate the process. Three weeks of advocacy around the Universal Periodic Review were organised in 2015 in Geneva, during which human rights defenders were trained on advocacy, made presentations to States, exchanged views with each other and held many meetings with diplomatic missions, all organized by ILGA. UPR process, and that the sensitivity of several governments on SOGIESC issues is increasing. The work on the Universal Periodic Review was led for the best part of 2015 by UN Programme officer Alberto Ulises Quero García, who left the team in October after nearly two years. The UPR work was then run by Kara DeMilio until a new UN Programme officer, Diana Carolina Prado Mosquera, was appointed in early 2016. ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 19 GENDER IDENTITY AND GENDER EXPRESSION PROGRAMME 20 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 In 2015, ILGA developed its Gender Identity and Gender Expression strategy, solidifying and giving direction both to the programme and the work of the programme officer. It aims to achieve a number of things, all of which are in some form of partnership – with ILGA’s Trans secretariat, trans-led organisations and experts around the world, ILGA’s United Nations programme, other human rights organisations and UN agencies. It is well known that the strength of ILGA lies in its membership. However, for the Gender Identity and Gender Expression programme the strength also lies in the knowledge and strategic thinking of those who have laid the groundwork in trans movements, and of those who continue to do so today. While the organisation aims at supporting the work of local, regional and global trans-led organisations and programmes, it recognises first of all that the expertise lies in the trans communities themselves. ILGA also contributes through its work at the United Nations and on location in Geneva. Through supporting civil society engage the Treaty Bodies, Universal Periodic Review and the Human Rights Council, and raising issues before Special Procedures, ILGA brings issues to the fore in the advancement of trans rights. With community input, ILGA contributed to two reports by the Special Rapporteur on the right to health, participated in expert consultations at the UN, contributed to public events, conferences and trainings and made strategic statements at Human Rights Council sessions. A Trans pre-conference was also held at the ILGA-Asia conference. In 2016, we plan to release guides on utilising the Treaty Bodies and an advocacy tool on legal rights, in addition to building on longer term strategic and capacity building work already started in 2015. We are looking forward to a fruitful year ahead. ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 21 LOOKING OUTWARDS 22 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 An integral element of ILGA’s raison d’être is to assist activists in achieving their self-identified aims through work with international human rights mechanisms, organizational capacity development and dissemination of credible information. State Sponsored Homophobia and Map of Sexual Orientation Laws in the World The tenth edition of ILGA’s flagship annual publication, State Sponsored Homophobia and its attendant map, was launched at the United Nations’ Palais de Nations on 13 May 2015. Mona Rishmawi from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ambassador Regina Maria Cordeiro Dunlop of Brazil, Nigerian human rights defender Joseph Sewedo Akoro and co-author Aengus Carroll addressed the gathering. Representatives of the diplomatic missions of Uruguay, Chile and Colombia, among the initiators of the second-ever SOGI resolution at the Human Rights Council in 2014, were also in attendance. Researched and written by Aengus Carroll and Lucas Paoli Itaborahy, the 2015 edition lists laws that criminalise us (activity), protect us (discrimination or hate) or recognise us (relationships), and provides a credible reference source for human rights defenders, activists, researchers, organisations and institutions. “This comprehensive analysis should be used as an eye-opener to those oblivious to the fact that 76 countries in the world still criminalise same-sex sexual acts, and more countries that criminalise ‘homosexuality’ in other ways, subjecting individuals to dangers, risks, abuses, harassment and violations on the basis of their gender and sexuality.” source: International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association: Carroll, A. & Itaborahy, L.P. State Sponsored Homophobia 2015: A world survey of laws: criminalisation, protection and recognition of same-sex love (Geneva; ILGA, May 2015) ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 23 This 10th edition carried more information on States’ engagement with international mechanisms than previously, in light of the human rights work being carried out by LGBTI human rights defenders in criminalising States. As well as an essay on intersectionality in LGBT advocacy written by the Sexual Rights Initiative, the 10th edition featured an overview of SOGI work at the UN and ILGA’s part in that, as well five sociolegal regional overviews on each continent. Throughout the year, in line with rising institutional and corporate consciousness around LGBTI issues, we have seen State Sponsored Homophobia cited in numerous impactful forums and documents (UN, EU, IACHR, US Supreme Court, World Bank, UNAIDS, OHCHR, World Economic Forum, and many more). The UNDP LGBTI Inclusion Index The Global LGBTI Inclusion Index is an initiative that seeks, amongst other objectives, to create or enhance the tools to fill empirical data gaps and address key areas of LGBTI life around the world. Following a multi-sectorial experts’ meeting in September 2015, convened by the UNDP and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, it was agreed that ILGA and OutRight Action International (formerly IGLHRC) would oversee a global consultation process on a number of proposals put forward. ILGA designed (with UNDP) and disseminated a survey on what should comprise the central themes of focus, or dimensions, and the sets of indicators that should flow from them in areas such as economic life, socio-political engagement, safety and violence, education and health. The report on the findings from this survey will be available in 2016. In December 2015, a three-day activist meeting was facilitated by Outright Action International to discuss the findings and concepts – again, a report on this will be distributed by the UNDP in 2016. The ILGA-RIWI Global Attitudes Survey on LGBTI At the launch of State Sponsored Homophobia 2015, ILGA also delivered the results of a 52-country survey on public attitudes to same-sex marriage that had been carried out in 2014 by a Canadian data research company, RIWI. Although same-sex mar- “LGBTI economic, political and social exclusion remains pervasive, resulting in a lack of access to things like adequate education and health services. If LGBTI people continue to face exclusion, the Sustainable Development Goals will remain out of our reach. We must quickly sort out what it will take to ensure LGBTI inclusion.” Source: CORTEZ C., When People Are Counted, No One Is Left Behind, undp.org 24 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 LOGOTYPE HEADLINE riage as an advocacy objective exists for only a part of ILGA’s membership, it was the effectiveness of the technology to garner information on SOGI issues, particularly International from civilLGBT-hostile society implementing the EU Human Rights Defenders mechanism states, that was of great interest. Through targeting digital deInternational civil society implementing vices (phones and computers) the EU Human Rights Defenders mechanism that try to access non existing web addresses (i.e. typed in the address bar by mistake), the RIWI technology sends a survey in the appropriate world language to potential respondents in any city, province, country or territory in the world. This means comparative SOGI-related data from hardto-reach places (for example, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Sudan) can for the first time ever be collated. PROTECTDEFENDERS.EU VISUAL IDENTITY GUIDELINES & BEST PRACTICES As such, in July 2015 ILGA began to engage with RIWI to determine the viability of creating a longitudinal study on public attitudes to LGBTI people and our issues, so that attitudinal changes to sexual orientation and gender identity can be tracked annually, and reliable empirical data can be triangulated and deployed by activists in their advocacy work nationally and internationally. During 2015, 31 survey questions were identified: many of which ask specifically about LGB-identified subjects, gender identity International civil society implementing the EU Human Rights Defenders mechanism and expression, and about intersex, while others are more generic - about ‘LGBTI’. It is expected that when finances allow us to stay in the field in any of these countries to amass a large respondent base, we may be able to make very real LGBTI population estimates. The manner in which data is returned allowed researchers to analyse it (‘cut’) by age, gender identity (male/female/other), sexual orientation, sex characteristic status, and geography. This is the first study of this scale and reach in the world. PROTECTDEFENDERS.EU © 2016 For the first phase of this study, formally titled ILGA-RIWI Global Attitudes Survey on LGBTI People 2016, in partnership with Logo, 65 countries were targeted. ILGA decided that to be able to speak definitively on these figures and so they can be relied on in advocacy, a minimum cut-off figure of 700 respondents per country would suffice. As will be reported by ILGA, this figure was surpassed in 53 countries. This ILGA/RIWI survey data and the on-going work in State Sponsored Homophobia are expected to be utilised in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) LGBTI Inclusion Index, which ILGA and others were involved in the seminal stages of designing and negotiating in 2015. ProtectDefenders.eu All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. And yet, working to defend LGBTI human rights often renders LGBTI activists as target of hate. It is crucial to offer them means to break the isolation they are forced to work into, and this is why ILGA chose to become part of ProtectDefenders.eu, the first comprehensive EU Human Rights Defenders mechanism. Funded by the European Union, ProtectDefenders.eu was launched in Brussels in December 2015. It offers human rights defenders at risk a platform to receive practical support, apply for emergency grants, ask for temporary relocation or join trainings to meet their long-term security needs. In case of immediate threats, human rights defenders can also call the 24/7 emergency hotline, where LGBTI-friendly operators speak Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish. ILGA (which will begin working in the Consortium in 2016) is part of the mechanism along with eleven other international civil society organisations, committed to working together for human rights defenders worldwide. ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 25 6 Executive board members Co-secretaries general Ruth Baldacchino Malta Gay Rights Movement Malta Helen Kennedy Egale Canada Canada Alternate co-secretary general Richard Lusimbo Sexual Minorities Uganda Uganda Tamara Adrián Diverlex Venezuela until September 2015 Women’s secretariat United and Strong INC Saint Lucia represented by Kenita Placide Alternate Intersex secretariat OII Australia Australia represented by Morgan Carpenter Pan Africa ILGA Monica Tabengwa Botswana Human Rights Watch Yahia Zaidi Algeria / Belgium MantiQitna Network Pan Africa ILGA alternates Akudo Oguaghamba Nigeria Women’s Health and Equal Right (WHER) Initiative Richard Lusimbo Uganda Sexual Minorities Uganda Alternate Women’s secretariat CHOUF Minorities Tunisia represented by Khouloud Mahdhaoui ILGA Asia Hiker Chiu Taiwan OII Chinese Trans secretariat STRAP – Society of Transsexual Women Philippines Philippines represented by Mikee Inton and Brenda Alegre Alternate Trans secretariat Movimiento Antidiscriminatorio de Liberación Argentina Intersex secretariat MULABI - Espacio Latinoamericano de Sexualidades y Derechos Costa Rica represented by Natasha Jiménez Mata 26 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 Manisha Dhakal Nepal Blue Diamond Society ILGA Asia alternates Minhee Ryu South Korea The Korean Society of Law and Policy on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Kritipat Chotidhanitsakul (Jimmy) Thailand Transmen Alliance Thailand ILGA-Europe ILGA North America Anastasia Danilova Moldova Information Center GENDERDOC-M Haven Herrin United States of America Soulforce Martin Iversen Christensen Denmark LGBT Denmark Stephen Seaborn Canada Solidarity Pride Committee – Ontario Federation of Labour ILGA-Europe alternates Krister Karttnunen Finland SETA In ILGA-Europe, the co-chairs (Joyce Hamilton of COC Nederland and Brian Sheehan of GLEN - the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network) are not the same as the representatives on ILGA World’s board ILGA LAC Josefina Valencia Toledano Mexico El Closet de Sor Juana Beto de Jesús Brasil Instituto Edson Neris ILGA LAC alternates Natasha Jimenéz Mata Costa Rica MULABI - Espacio Latinoamericano de Sexualidades y Derechos Sandra Alvarez Mosalve Ecuador Organización Ecuatoriana de Mujeres Lesbianas Executive board members as per 31 December 2015. Movimiento Antidiscriminatorio de Liberación, the alternate Trans secretariat, has been represented on the ILGA executive board by Diana Sacayán. She was killed in October 2015. ILGA North America alternates Jose Alegria United States of America El Centro Hispano Dominique Dubuc Canada ILGA Oceania Ymania Brown Samoa Samoa Fa’afafine Association Corey Irlam Australia Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby ILGA Oceania alternates Anna Brown Australia Human Rights Law Center Morgan Carpenter Australia OII Australia ILGA Asia was represented on the executive board by Kaona “Toto” Saowakun (Thailand) and Dan-Dan ”Dana” Zhang (Chinese Lala Association, China/Hong Kong) from March 2013 to October 2015. Their alternates were Toen King Oey (Arus Pelangi, Indonesia) and Poedijati Fen Siang (Gaya Nusatara, Indonesia). ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 27 Our member organisations PAN AFRICA ILGA • Good Hope Metropolitan Community Church • Inclusive & Affirming Ministries – IAM • International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Full members Commission (Africa) • Iranti-Org MENA region • ISSA - Intersex South Africa • MantiQitna Network • Joburg Pride Algeria • Kaleidoscope Youth Network • Abu Nawas Algerie • OUT - LGBT Well – Being • AKHAM-Algeria • SHE social health and empowerment feminist • Alouen collective of transgender and intersex women • Khomsa of Africa Botswana • South African Youth Liberation Organization • LEGABIBO Lesbians Gays and Bisexuals of • The Inner Circle Botswana • The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project Burundi • Triangle Project • Association pour la Protection et la Promotion • UJ Liberati - University of Johannesburg des Droits a l› Education des Indigents (APDEI) Sudan • Jeunes Actifs Pour le Développement des lgbt au • Freedom Sudan Burundi (jad lgbt) Tunisia •M ouvement pour les Libertes Individuelles – MOLI • Mawjoudin (we exist) • MUCO • 2 anonymous members • Rainbow Candle Light Uganda • URUMURI • Fem Alliance Cameroon • FEMME OF VARLOUR – FOV • AC HREDHO-CAMEROUN • Freedom and Roam Uganda • ACODES -Cameroun - Sex Workers • i freedom Uganda Network • ADEFHO • Icebreakersuganda • Alternatives-Cameroun • Spectrum Uganda Initiatives Inc • Association de defense des droits des lesbiennes • Sexual Minorities Uganda • Association de Lutte contre les violences faites • Support Initiative for People with atypical Sex aux Femmes Development • Association Espoir Plus • Trans Support Initiative-Uganda • Cameroonian Foundation For AIDS – CAMFAIDS • Uganda Q. Y. U. • Colibri • 3 anonymous members • Humanity First Cameroon • Singaboud Associate members Democratic Republic of Congo • Association communautaire de defense et de South Africa protection de la vie au Congo - AC /DPV – CONGO • Zakheni Training and Development Centre • MOPREDS - Mouvement pour la Promotion du respect et egalité des droits des minorités Anonymous associate members sexuelles • Rainbow Sunrise Mapambazuko RSM • Gambia (1) Egypt • Uganda (1) • Bedayaa Organization • 1 anonymous member ILGA–ASIA Ghana • Centre for Popular Education and Human Rights Full members of Ghana • Priorities On Rights and Sexual Health Bangladesh Ivory Coast • Badhan Hijra Sangha • Arc En Ciel Plus • Bandhu Social Welfare Society Kenya • Bangladesh Association for Gays – BAG • Changing Attitude Kenya • Boys of Bangladesh • Gay Activists Alliance International Africa Kenya • Roopbaan • Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya - GALC K • Shawprova • Gay Kenya Trust Cambodia • HIV/AIDS PEOPLE ALLIANCE OF KENYA • Rainbow Community Kampuchea • Let Good Be Told In us (LGBTI) Nyanza & Western • Silaka Organization Coalition - Nyawek Coalition China • Minority Women in Action • AIBAI culture & education center • Persons Marginalized and Aggrieved Kenya • Beijing Aizhixing Institute • Queer Talk • Beijing Gender Health Education Institute • SDA Kinship • Chi Heng Foundation • Tamba Pwani • China Queer Independent Films • Women Working with Women - 3W • Chinese Lala Alliance Liberia • Civil Rights for Sexual Diversities • Stop AIDs in Liberia • Common Language (Tongyu) Mauritius • Qingdao Sunshine Group • Collectif Arc-en-Ciel • Shanghai Nvai Lesbian Group • Young Queer Alliance • The Rainbow Sky Working Group Morocco • Tongzhi Community Joint Meeting – TCJM • 1 anonymous member • Trans China (Alliance of Chinese Transgenders) Mozambique • Women Coalition of HKSAR • Lambda Association Mozambique India Namibia • Bharosa Trust • Sister Namibia • Bombay Dost (The newsmagazine of Pride • Out-Right Namibia Publications Pvt Ltd) Nigeria • Equal India Alliance • African Focus For Youth Development • G.H.A.R. - Gay Housing Assistance Resource • Alliance Rights Nigeria • Gay Bombay Group • House of Rainbow • Gaybombay.org • International centre for reproductive health and • Humsafar Trust sexual rights • Ibteda-e-anees • Male Attitude Network • Lakshya Trust • Queer Alliance Nigeria • Maan AIDS Foundation • Women’s Health and Equal Rights Initiative • SAKHI • Youths 2gether Network • Sangini Trust • 1 anonymous member • Sappho for Equality Rwanda • Swabhava • VELVET- a support group for LBT women • Horizon Community Association • Vikalp Women Group / Parma • Human Rights First Rwanda Association • 2 anonymous members Senegal Indonesia • AIDES Sénégal • Arus Pelangi South Africa • Gaya Nusantara Foundation • ACTIVATE (University of Witwatersrand) • IGAMA Foundation • Behind the Mask • Institut Pelangi Perempuan - Women Rainbow • Coalition of African Lesbians Institute • D urban Lesbian & Gay Community & Health Centre • Komunitas Sehati Makassar • Engender • People Like Us - PLU Indonesia • Forum for the Empowerment of Women – FEW • Violet Grey • Gay Umbrella • Youth Interfaith Forum on Sexuality • Gender DynamiX – GDX 28 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 Iran • Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees • JoopeA Israel • Aguda - The Israeli national LGBT task force • Al-Qaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society • Aswat (Palestinian Gay Women) • Haifa LGBT Forum • Havruta - Religious Gays • Hoshen Japan • G-Front Kansai • GayJapanNews • Japan Association for the Lesbian and Gay movement – OCCUR • Space allies • TOKYO Pride Kazakhstan • Alliance-Asia • Public Organization Amulet • 1 anonymous member Kurdistan • 1 anonymous member Kyrgystan • Kyrgyz Indigo • LGBT Organization Labrys Lebanon • Meem • HeLeM Malaysia • PT Foundation Maldives • Rainbow Maldives Myanmar • Colors of Rainbow • LGBT Centre • Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbian and Gay - Myanmar (PFLAG-Myanmar) • Youth for Health Nepal • Blue Diamond Society Pakistan • LG.Motivators • Naz Male Health Alliance Pakistan (aka. NMHA) Philippines • Association of Transgenders in the Philippines • Can-t Live in the Closet Inc. • CebuPride • GALANG Philippines • Isis International • Katlo • Metropolitan Community Church of Metro Baguio • Miss Maanyag Gay Organization of Butuan / Ladlad Caraga • Outrage Magazine • Philippine Forum on Sports Culture Sexuality and Human Rights • PLM PRIDE • Progressive Alliance of Lesbians on the Philippines (Prolesb) • Progressive Organization of Gays in the Philippines ProGay • Society of the Transsexual Women of the Philippines • The Order of Saint Aelred • Tumba Lata-Davao Inc. • University of the Philippines Babaylan • UPLB Babaylan • Women Media Circle Foundation Inc. Republic of Korea • Korean Gay Men’s Human Rights Group Chingusai • Korean Sexual-minority Culture and Rights Center • KSLP - Korean Society of Law and Policy on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Singapore • Oogachaga Counselling and Support • People Like Us - PLU Singapore • Sayoni • SGRainbow Sri Lanka • Diversity And Solidarity Trust • Equal Ground • Women Support Group Taiwan • Organisation Intersex International-Chinese • Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights • Taiwan LGBT Family Rights Advocacy • Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association • Transgender Punk Activist Taiwan Tajikistan • Equal opportunities Thailand • Anjaree Group • Gays Without Borders • MPLUS FOUNDATION • Purple Sky Network • Rainbow Sky Association of Thailand (RSAT) • Transmen Alliance (Thailand) United Arab Emirates • 1 anonymous member Uzbekistan • Vertae Vietnam • Institute for Studies of Society Economy and Environment Associate members Bangladesh • Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation Hong Kong • Unitarian Ministries International India • Rajasthan Network for People living with HIV/AIDS Malaysia • Sunduvan Refuge Community Myanmar • Tin Aung Win (Burnet Institute) Thailand • Thai Youth Action Program Anonymous associate members • Bangladesh (1) • Malaysia (1) • Pakistan (1) ILGA-EUROPE Full members Albania • Aleanca Kunder Diskriminimit LGBT (Alliance against LGBT discrimination) • Pink Embassy/LGBT Pro Albania Armenia • Guarantee Center of Civil Society • Public Information and Need of Knowledge • Society Without Violence NGO • We For Civil Equality Austria • Austrian Gay Professionals • Austrian Queer Families • Chat/Grape • Green Party LGBT Group (Austria) • Homosexual Initiative (HOSI) Salzburg • Homosexual Initiative (HOSI) Vienna • Homosexuelle Initiative Linz (HOSI Linz) - The Lesbian and Gay Movement in Upper Austria • Homosexuelle und Glaube Wien • QWIEN - Zentrum fur schwul/lesbische Kultur und Geschichte • Rechtskomitee LA MBDA • Rosa Lila Tipp – RLT • SoHo - Sozialdemokratie & Homosexualitat • VEPO Austria Azerbaijan • Gender and Development Belarus • GayBelarus • Gay.by - Gay Alliance Belarus Belgium • Arc-en-Ciel Wallonie - Fédération wallonne des associations LGBT • Belgian Business Association • Belgian Pride • Brussels Gay Sports • Casa Rosa • çavaria • EGALITE - Equality for Gays And Lesbians In The European Institutions • English-speaking Gay Group • Ex Aequo • Federation Arc-en-ciel • Genres Pluriels • Goudou • HAGAR • Het Roze Huis ? çavaria Antwerpen • Holebihuis Leuven • IGLYO - International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organisation • Mikpunt (aiming point) • NELFA Network of European LGBT Families Association • Polaris- West-Vlaams Regenbooghuis vzw • Rainbowhouse Brussels (Maison arc-en-ciel / Regenbooghuis Bruxelles/Brussels) • RoSa Documentation Centre and Activities on Equal Opportunity • Tels Quels asbl • Wel Jong niet Hetero • Why me • WISH Werkgroep Internationale Solidariteit met Holebi’s Bosnia and Herzegovina • Fondacija CURE • Organisation Q • Sarajevo Open Centre Bulgaria • Bilitis Resource Center Foundation • Sofia Pride Foundation Croatia • ISKORAK - Sexual and gender minorities rights centre • Lesbian Group Kontra • Lesbian organization / Lezbijska organizacija Rijeka - LOR I • Rispet - LGBT association Split • Trans Aid - Association for promoting and protecting the rights of trans, inter and gender variant persons • Women s Room - Zenska Soba • Zagreb Pride Organization Cyprus • Accept - LGBT Cyprus • Feminist Atölye • Gay Liberation Movement of Cyprus • Queer Cyprus Association Czech Republic • Charlie o. s. • PROUD Platform for equality recognition and diversity Denmark • BLUS • Lambda - Bosser og Lesbiske pa Fyn • LGBT Asylum • LGBT Denmark: Danish National Association for Gays and Lesbians • LGBT Ungdom • Pangea International LGBTIQA+ • Sabaah Estonia • AIDS-i Tugikeskus (AIDS Information & Support Center) • Eesti Nahkmeeste Klub • Estonian AIDS Prevention Centre • Estonian LGBT Association • Gei ja lesbi infokeskus (Estonian Gay League) Finland • Helsingin seudun SETA ry • Oulun SETA ry • Pirkanmaan SETA ry • Rainbow Families Finland • SETA - LGBTI Rights in Finland • Trasek ry • Turun seudun SETA ry France • Actions Concrètes Conciliant Education Prévention Travail Equité Santé et Sport pour les Transgenres - ACCE PTESS –T • An Nou Alle ! • Arc-en-ciel Toulouse • ARDHIS • Association de Lutte Internationales pour L Identite des Femmes Transgenres Travestis transsexuelles et Sida • Association des Familles Homoparentales • Association des Parents et Futurs Parents Gays et Lesbiens • Association Gayttitude Psychologie • Association nationale transgenre -Trans Aide • Association Professionnelle des Personnels Educatifs LGBT – APPEL • Association Psy Gay • Association The Warning • CARITIG • CENTR’ÉGAUX - Association des Centristes et Democrates Lesbiennes Gays Bi Trans et GayFriendly • Centre LGBT Paris Ile de France • Chéries-Chéris - Festival du Films Gay Lesbiens Trans et de Paris – FFGLP • Comité pour la reconnaissance sociale des homosexuel/ les CRSH • Contact Paris/Ile-de-France • Coordination Lesbienne en France – CLF • CQFD Fierte Lesbienne • David & Jonathan • Europe Ecologie - Les Verts • Federation Francaise des Centres LGBT • Fondation de France - Rainbow Solidarité • Gaipar • GayLib • HM2F - Homosexuels Musulmans 2 France • Homosexualites et Socialisme • Inter-LGBT • L Autre Cercle • L Egide maison régionale des associations Lesbiennes Gays Bi Trans • Rainbow Banquass • Réseau d assistance aux victimes d agréssion et de discriminations – RAVAD • RHIF et Les Juristes Gais • SOS homophobie - Association nationale de lutte contre la lesbophobie la gayphobie la biphobie et la transphobie • Txy - Communauté des Travestis Transgenres & Transidentitaires • Universites d’Ete Euro-mediterraneennes des Homosexualites Georgia • Identoba • Inclusive Foundation • LGBT Georgia • Women’s Initiatives Supporting Group Germany • AG Lesben und Schwule in der Berliner SPD • Akademie Waldschloesschen • Aktionsbuendnis gegen Homophobie e.V. • BAG (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft) - Die Linke. queer • BiNe German Bisexual Network • Bundesarbeitskreis Lesben Schwule Bisexuelle und Transgender in ver.di • Bundnis 90/Die Grunen Landesverband Berlin • Fliederlich e.V. • Homosexuelle und Kirche Germany • Initiative Queer Nations e.V. • International Support Group for Information Transfer and Networking ISGITN • IVIM / Organisation Intersex International – German Chapter - IVIM / OII-Germany • Lesben und Schwule in der Union • Lesbenring e.V. • Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany • LiSL Deutschland e.V. - Liberal Gays and Lesbians Germany • LGBTI-WCI - Website Certification Institute • LUSK UNI-Köln • Mann-O-Meter e.V. • Municipal Working Group Tolerantly Brandenburg • Nefes (Breath) LGBT Azerbaijan Alliance • OII Europe • PROUT AT WORK-Foundation • Referat fur Lesben Schwule Bi & Transsexuelle der ASTA TU • RollenWechsel in Oldenburg • Schwulenreferat der Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universitat • Sonntags-Club e.V. • Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv & Bibliothek e.V. • Sub - Schwules Kommunikations- und Kulturzentrum München e.V. (Sub e.V.) • Transgender Europe e.V. • TransInterQueer e.V • Völklinger Kreis e.V. Greece • Co-operation Against Homophobia • Lesb.Equal - Lesbians for Equality • OLKE - Lesbian and Gay Community of Greece Hungary • Habeas Corpus Working Group • Háttér Support Society for LGBT People in Hungary (Hatter Tarsasag a Melegekert) • Hungarian LGBT Alliance • Transvanilla Transgender Association Iceland • Intersex Iceland • Samtokin Ireland • BeLonG To Youth Services • Cork Gay Community Development Ltd. • GLEN Gay and Lesbian Equality Network • Labour LGBT Ireland • LGBT NOISE • LGBT Society University College Cork • LGBT Synergy • Marriage Equality • National Lesbian and Gay Federation – Ireland • Outhouse LGBT Community Resource Centre Italy • Anddos - Associazione Nazionale contro le Discriminazioni da Orientamento Sessuale • Arcigay Catania • Arcigay Frida Byron Ravenna • Arcigay Gioconda Reggio Emilia • Arcigay Il Cassero • Arcigay la Fenice • Arcigay Marcella di Folco Salerno • Arcigay Nazionale • Arcigay Piacenza • Arcigay Pisa • Arcigay Roma Gruppo Ora • ArciLesbica • ArciLesbica Bologna • Associazione Genitori di Omosessuali AGEDO • Associazione InformaGay • Associazione Omosessuale Articolo Tre di Palermo • Associazione Quore • Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti • Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI - Rete Lenford • Centro Risorse LGBTI • Circolo di Cultura Omosessuale Mario Mieli • Circomassimo - Associazione gay e lesbica / Arcigay Ferrara • Comitato provinciale Arcigay Alan Mathison Turing - Arcigay Rimini • Comitato Provinciale Arcigay Bergamo Cives • Comitato provinciale Arcigay CIG – Milano • Comitato Provinciale Matthew Shepard - Arcigay Modena • Coordinamento Torino Pride LGBT • CUBE - Centro Universitario Bolognese di Etnosemiotica • D.E.L.O.S. • Di Gay Project • Famiglie Arcobaleno • Fondazione FUORI • Ireos - Centro Servizi Autogestito Comunita Queer • Lambda - Associazione Amici della Fondazione Sandro Penna • Lieviti - Bisessuali, Pansessuali e Queer Italiani • Omphalos Gay and Lesbian Life • PLUS Onlus • Rete Genitori Rainbow Kosovo • Centre for Equality and Liberty for the LGBT community in Kosova • Libertas • Qendra për Emancipim Shoqëror (Center for Social Emancipation) - QESh Latvia • Alliance of lesbian gay bisexual transpersons and their friends - Mozaika Lithuania • Lithuanian Gay League • Tolerant Youth Association • ZEPHIRO: Progressive Platform for Human Rights Luxemburg • Rosa Letzebuerg ASBL Macedonia • LGBT United Macedonia • LGBTI Support Centre • Subversive Front - association for critical approach to gender and sexuality • Women’s Alliance Malta • Malta Gay Rights Movement Moldova • GenderDoc-M Information Centre Montenegro • LGBT Forum Progress • Juventas Norway • LLH - The Norwegian Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Organisation • LLH - The Norwegian LGBT Association - Bergen and Hordaland • LLH - The Norwegian LGBT Association – Nordland Region • LLH - The Norwegian LGBT Association - Oslo og Akershus • LLH - The Norwegian LGBT Association – Rogaland • Skeiv Ungdom - Queer Youth • Skeiv Verden - Queer World • The National organization for transsexuals in Norway (LFTS) - local group in Bergen Poland • A.W.R. Softpress • Campaign Against Homophobia • Fundacja Rownosci (Equality Foundation) • KdT Fundacja Kultura dla Tolerancji - Culture for tolerance Foundation • Lambda Szczecin Association • Lambda Warszawa Association (Warsaw) • LGBT Business Forum • Trans-Fuzja Foundation Portugal • Associação Tudo Vai Melhorar • Beja Diversidades • ILGA Portugal • Obra Gay Associacao Romania • ACT -Q ROMANIA • Asociatia ACCEPT • Association Equal from Romania • Eu sunt! Tu? part of Population Services International in Romania Russia • Coming Out Russia St. Petersburg Public Organization • Gay Youth Right Defence Organization • Moscow Public Association “STIMUL” • Murmansk regional public organization • Raduzhny Dom • Rainbow Association Moscow • Rakurs - Arkhangelsk regional non-governmental LGBT organization • Russian LGBT Network • Russian LGBT Sport Federation • Russian National GLBT Center TO GETHER • Samara LGBT right movement Averse (Obverse) • The St.Petersburg LGBT Human Rights “Krilija” Center Serbia • Belgrade Pride Parade • Gay Lesbian Info Centre • Gay Straight Alliance • Gayten - Center for Promotion of LGBT Human Rights • Labris • Novi Sad Lesbian Organization • Queeria - Center for Promoting Culture of Non-Violence and Equality Slovakia • Dúhové srdce • Hnutie Ganymedes • Iniciativa Inakost • Queer Leaders Forum Slovenia • Association informational centre LEGEBITRA • Drustvo DIH - Association for integration of homosexuality • Lesbian Group SKUC-LL • Roza Klub • SKUC-MAGNUS Spain • ASECAL • Asociación Catalana para la Integración de Homosexuales Bisexuales y Transexuales Inmigrantes – ACATHI • Asociación Española de Transexuales - AET-Transexualia • Asociacion Internacional de Familias por la Diversidad Sexual – FDS • Asociación Reacciona! • Associacio de Families Lesbianes i Gais • Barcelona International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival • Casal Lambda • Chrysallis Asociación de Familias de Menores Transexuales • Col-lectiu Lambda de Valencia • C olectivo de Lesbianas y Gays de Madrid CO GAM • COLEGAS Confederación Española Asociaciones de lesbianas gays bisexuales y transexuales • Coordinadora de Lesbianes Gais Transsexuals i Bisexuals de Catalunya • FELGTB - Federacion Estatal de Lesbianas Gays Transexuales y Bisexuales • Fundación Daniela • Fundación Triangulo por la Igualdad Social de Gays y Lesbianas • GEHITU Asociación de gays lesbianas transexuales y bisexuales del País Vasco. Euskal Herriko lesbiana gay transexual eta bisexualen elkartea. • G.L.A.Y. - Gay Lesbian Association Yumbo, Gran Canaria, Spain • Grupo Lesbianas Gays Transexuales y Bisexuales del PSOE • It Gets Better Espana • Orgullo LGTB Madrid • Plataforma Popular Gay • SOM COM SOM Collectiu per l Alliberament Sexual del Valles Sweden • Arab Initiative • Association of Nordic and Pol-Balt LGBTQ Student Organizations • C-Gay The National Network of HBT persons within the Centre Party • Fin Hope Organization • HBT-liberaler (LGBT liberals) • Hbt-socialdemokrater Sverige • O II (Organization Intersex International) Scandinavia • Posithiva Gruppen (HIV/AIDS Group Sweden) • RFSL Forbundet (National) • RFSL Fyrbodal • RFSL Gavleborg • RFSL Goteborg • RFSL Kronoberg • RFSL Linkoping • RFSL Malmo • RFSL Nord • RFSL Norrkoping • RFSL Orebro • RFSL Ostersund • RFSL Skaraborg • RFSL Stockholm • RFSL Sundsvall • RFSL Umea • RFSL Ungdom The Swedish Youth Federation for LGBT rights • Rikstorbundet Ekumeniska grupporna for kristna homooch bisexuella (EKHO) • ROHS - National Swedish LGBT Solidarity Organization • ROHS - Riksorganisationen Homosexuella Socialister • Swedish Federation of LGBTQ student organisations • Transföreningen FPES Switzerland • Association 360 • DIALOGAI • Fédération genevoise des associations LGBT • Homosexual Working Groups Zurich • Homosexuelle Arbeitsgruppen Basel – HABS • Homosexuelle Arbeitsgruppen Bern • Juragai • Lesbenorganisation Schweiz – LOS • Lestime • ORAM Organization for Refuge Asylum and Migration • Pink Apple Lesbian & Gay Film Festival • PINK CROSS Organisation Suisse des Gais • The Swiss Rainbow Families Association • Verein Network • Verein Zurich Pride Festival • VoGay - Association vaudoise des Personnes concernées par l’Homosexualité • WyberNet - gay business women The Netherlands • African Gay Youth Foundation ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 29 Our member organisations • AOb Algemene Onderwijsbond (General Union for Education of the Netherlands) • Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond - Onderwijsbond – Homowerkgroep • COC – Amsterdam • COC – Nederland • COC – Rotterdam • COC – Tilburg • Dutch Bisexual Network • EduDivers • Embrace Pink Foundation • European Forum of LGBT Christian Groups • European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation • European Gay Police Association • Foundation Transman • Global Alliance for LGBT Education • HomoVisie • ILGA Support Group Utrecht • Internationaal Homo/Lesbisch Informatiecentrum en Archief IHLIA-Homodok • Landelijk Homonetwerk Politie • Meer dan Gewenst • Netwerk Roze FNV • RozeLinks • Stichting De Kringen Utrecht • Stichting FLL • Stichting Homosexualiteit En Krijgsmacht • Stichting Roze Zaterdagen Nederland • Transgender Netwerk Nederland – TNN • Transman.nl • Workplace Pride Turkey • Ayı Sözlük • Black Pink Triangle Izmir Association - Siyah Pembe Üçgen Izmir • Gay & Lesbian to socialize and Rehabilitation – GLSRS • Kaos GL • Lambdaistanbul LGBT Solidarity Association • LISTAG (Families of LGBT in Istanbul) • Pink Life Association LGBTT Solidarity (Pembe Hayat) • Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association • Social Policies Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies Association – SPOD United Kingdom • ALEGRI • Birmingham LGBT • Broken Rainbow UK • Campaign for Homosexual Equality • Cara-Friend • Coalition on Sexual Orientation • Consortium of LGB Voluntary & Community Organisations • Croydon Area Gay Society • Equality Network • GALHA the LGBT section of the BHA • Gay Activists Alliance international • Gay Christian Europe • Gay Men’s Health • HERE • Imaan • Intersex UK • Iranian Lesbian and Transgender Network (6Rang) • Jewish Gay and Lesbian Group • Kaleidoscope Diversity Trust • Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Bisexual and Transgender Rights - LGBT Labour • Lesbian gay & Bisexual Anti-Violence and Policing Group • LGBT History Month - United Kingdom • LGBT Youth North West • LGBT Youth Scotland • London Bisexual Group • London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard • Metro Centre Ltd. • Micro Rainbow International • Mosaic LGBT Youth Centre • National Union of Students Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans Campaign • Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association • OutRage! • Pink Therapy • Press for Change • Rainbow Jews/Liberal Judaism • Stonewall Equality • Stonewall Scotland • Swansea Pride • The Fire Brigades Union LGBT Committee • The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement LGCM • The Lesbian and Gay Foundation – LGF • Transcend Support Group • TransLondon • UK Black Pride • UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group • UNISON - Cymru Wales - LGBT group • UNISON - East Midlands - LGBT Group • UNISON - Greater London - LGBT group • UNISON - National LGBT Committee • UNISON - North West - LGBT Group • UNISON - Northern - LGBT Group • UNISON - Nottinghamshire Healthcare LGBT group • UNISON - Scotland - LGBT group • Centro Cristiano de la Comunidad GLTTB Asociacion Civil • Colectivo por la Igualdad • Comunidad Homosexual Argentina • Deportistas Argentinos Gays - DOGOS • Escrita en el Cuerpo - Archivo y biblioteca de lesbianas mujeres bisexuales y diferentes • Facultad de Medicina GLB • Federacion Argentina de Lesbianas Gays Bisexuales y Trans – FALGBT • Futuro Transgenerico • Grupo de mujeres de la Argentina Foro de VIH mujeres y familia • Grupo de Sida por la Vida • Grupo Isis - Investigacion en Subjetividad e Imaginarios Sociales • Iglesia de la Comunidad Metropolitana de Buenos Aires • IGLHRC - Comisión Internacional de Derechos Humanos para Gays y Lesbianas - Programa para América Latina • Jóvenes x la Diversidad • Las Safinas Acción Lesbica • Movimiento Antidiscriminatorio de Liberación • Nexo Asociacion Civil (Grupo Nexo) Associate members • Puerta Abierta • RedTrans MaV Belgium • Secretaria de Diversidad Sexual del Partido • Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique - Section du Socialista Depot Legal • Sociedad de Integración Gay-Lesbica Argentina • European AIDS Treatment Group - SIGLA • Omaniae Bolivia Bulgaria • A sociacion civil de desarollo social y promoción • Bulgarian Helsinki Committee - BHC cultural - ADESPROC Libertad GLBT Cyprus • Colectivo TLGB de Bolivia • Gender and Minorities Institute • Colectivo Trans Las Divas Estonia • Comite Diversidades Sexuales y Genericas • NGO Estonian Network PLWHIV Cochabamba France • EQUIDAD • Neuromedia • Espacio de Estudios de la Diversidad Sexual y • Public Services International Generica Familia Galan Germany • Fundación Diversencia • AStA Universitat zu Koln • Fundación Igualdad LGBT • Bruno Gmunder Verlag GmbH • Manodiversa Italy • Organización de Travestis, Transgéneros y • Human Rights Awareness Transexuales Femeninas de Bolivia • Municipality of Venice - LGBT Cultural Policies Dept. • Plataforma por la Diversidad Serbia Brazil • AS - Center for the Empowerment Youth of • ABGLT Associação Brasileira de Lésbicas Gays people who are living with HIV and AIDS Bissexuais Travestis e Transexuais Spain • ADEH-Nostro Mundo - Grupo de trabalho LGBTI • Govern de Catalunya Programa per al collectiu • APOLO - Grupo Pela Livre Orientação Sexual gai lesbià i transsexual • Articulação e Movimento Homossexual de • InOut Post Recife - AMHOR Switzerland • Associaçao das Travestis da Paraba • Department for International Development DFID • Associação das Travestis de Salvador ? ATRÁS • London Councils • Associação de Travestis do Piauí - ATRA PI • Osmosoft • Associacao Goiana de Gays Lesbicas e Trans• T&G - Unite the Union generos - AGLT • United Kingdom • Associação Grupo Ipê Amarelo pela Livre • University and College Union UCU Orientação Sexual - GIAMA • Visages du Monde Organisation de Voyages Sarl • ATOBÁ - Movimento de Afirmação Homossexual The Netherlands • CDG Brasil - Comite Desportivo GLS Brasileiro • Gay care Amsterdam • Centro de Estudios Homoeroticos da Universi• Gemeente Utrecht dienst welzijn dade de Sao Paulo • Groenlinks • Centro de Luta pela Livre Orientacao Sexual de • HIV/Aids education for Surinamese Antilleans Minas Gerais and Arubans. Care and Prevention • Coletivo de Feministas Lesbicas • Landelijk Expertise Centrum Diversiteit • Coletivo de Gays Mirindiba • Universiteit Utrecht Department of Clinical • Coletivo Feminista Marias Psychology • CORSA - Cidadania Orgulho Respeito SolidariePoland dade e Amor • Federation for People Living with HIV/AIDS • Diversidade Paraiba “Pozytywni w Teczy” • Eros - Grupo de Apoio e Luta pela Livre Orien• Pink Press Warsaw tação Sexual do Sul da Bahia Portugal • Estruturação - Grupo de Lésbicas Gays Bissexu• PortugalGay.pt ais Travestis e Trans de Brasília Sweden • Fundação e Associação de Ação Social e DH • RFSU - Riksförbundet för sexuell upplysning GLBT de Canavieiras e Região Turkey • GRADELOS - Grupo Afro-descendente de livre • Turk Gay Club orientacao sexual United Kingdom • Grupo 28 de junho - pela cidadania • RMT Homossexual • Grupo Arco-Íris de Cidadania LGBT ILGA - LAC • Grupo Arco-Iris do Delta • Grupo Beija-flor Organização em Defesa da Livre Full members Orientação e Expressão Sexual • Grupo Cabo Free de Conscientizacao Homossexual Region • Grupo de Acao Pela Cidadania de Lesbicas Gays • Todo mejora Travestis Transexuais e Bissexuais Argentina • A.C.I.D.S. (Acción Ciudadana para la Integración • Grupo de Gays & Lesbiacas de Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado (PSTU) de la Diversidad Sexual) • Grupo de Resistencia Asa Branca • Acción Politica Lesbica Gay Trans Bisexual • Grupo Dignidade • Agrupacion de Profesionales Universitarias y • Grupo Eles Por Eles Empresarias Lesbianas - APUEL • Grupo Expressao • Area de Estudios Queer • Grupo Fênix - Movimento em Defesa da Cidada• Area de la Diversidad Sexual nia LGBT de Pojuca • Area Queer • Asociación De La Diversidad Sexual De Tartagal • Grupo Gay da Bahia • Grupo Habeas Corpus Potiguar (ADISTAR) • Grupo Homossexual da Periferia • Asociación de lucha por la Identidad Travesti • Grupo Homossexual do Cabo Transexual A.L.I.T.T • Grupo Humanus - Grupo LGBT de Itabuna • Buenos Aires Leather Club • UNISON - South East - LGBT Group • UNISON - South West - LGBT Group • UNISON - Stockport Local Government Branch – LGBT Group • UNISON - West Midlands - LGBT group • UNISON - Wolverhampton branch LGBT group • UNISON Yorkshire & Humberside Region - LGBT group • Wise Thoughts/Gaywise Ukraine • All Ukrainian Public Organization Gay Forum of Ukraine • Gay Alliance Ukraine • Informational-educational Center ?Women Network? • Insight public organization • Mykolayiv Association for Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals ‘LIGA’ • Nash Mir (Our World) Gay and Lesbian Center • NGO Democratic Society • Public organization Informational-Educational Center “For Equal Rights” • Stable Reference Group of Odessa Region 30 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 • Grupo Iguais de Conscientizacao Contra o Preconceito e Inclusao Social - G.I.C.P.I.S • Grupo Livre-Mente: Conscientização e Direitos Humanos de GLT • Grupo Pluralidade e Diversidade de Duque de Caxias • Grupo Primavera • Inpar 28 de Junho- Instituto Paranaense 28 de Junho • Instituto Edson Neris • Lesbicas Organizadas da Baixada Santista • Libertos Comunicacao • Movimento de Lésbicas e Mulheres Bissexuais da Bahia • Movimento do Espírito Lilás - MEL • Movimento Gay Leões do Norte • Movimento Homossexual de Belem - MHB • ONG Grupo 7 Cores • ONG Reintegrando Vidas • ONG Visibilidade LGBT - Sao Carlos • Rede de Informacao Um Outro Olhar • Satyricon - Grupo de Apoio e Defesa da Orientação Sexual • Somos - Comunicacao Saude e Sexualidade • TAB IRAH - Associação de Homossexuais Lésbicas Travestis...de Tabira • 1 anonymous member Chile • Corporación Chilena de Prevención del Sida - ACCIONGAY • FADISE CHILE (Falange por la Diversidad Sexual) • Fundación Iguales • GAHT - Grupo de Apoyo a Hombres Trans • HOD Chile - Judios por la diversidad • Ideas Sin Genero - ISIG • Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual - MOVILH • Movimiento Deportivo de Integración GLTB - Movdeinchile • Movimiento por la Diversidad Sexual – MUMS • Organización de Transexuales por la Dignidad de la Diversidad OTD • Sindicato de Trabajadoras Independientes Travestis • Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras Luis Gauthier • Transgéneras por el cambio • Traveschile Colombia • Asociación Lideres en Acción • Asociacion por el Derecho a la Identidad Cultural y Sexual de los y las Transgeneristas en Colombia Transcolombia • Caribe afirmativo • Colectivo Leon Zuleta • Colombia Diversa • Corporación El Otro • Corporación Femm • CORPORACION RED SOMOS • Fundación Chaina • Fundacion Proyecto ARCO IRIS LGBTI • Junio Unicidad • Mujeres al Borde • Red de Apoyo a Transgeneristas • Siete Colores Bucaramanga Costa Rica • Asociación Comunidad Arco Iris • Centro de Investigación Y promoción para América Central de Derechos Humanos - CIPAC • Movimiento Diversidad Pro Derechos Humanos y Salud • Mujer y Mujer • Mulabi Cuba • Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual - CENESEX • Proyecto Arcoiris de Cuba • Sociedad Cubana Multidisciplinaria para el Estudio de la Sexualidad (SOCUMES) • TransCuba Curacao • FOKO Curacao Pride Foundation • Pink Orange Alliance Dominica • Caribbean HIV Aids Partnership / CHAP Dominica Dominican Republic • Alianza Nacional de Hombres Gay Trans y otros HSH • Transsa - Trans Siempre Amigas Ecuador • Asociación Mujer & Mujer - Colectivo LGBTI • FEDAEPS • Fundación Amigos por la Vida – FAMIVIDA • Fundación de Desarrollo Humano Integral Causana • Fundación Ecuatoriana Por Una Diversidad Incluyente (FEDI) • Fundación Transgeneros Peninsular – FUTPEN • Organización Ecuatoriana de Mujeres Lesbianas OEML • Organización Ecuatoriana Lesbianas Desafiando Mitos • Red Trans de el Oro • Silueta X Cuenca El Salvador • Asociacion Comunicando y Capacitando a mujeres TRANS con VIH en El Salvador COMCAVIS TRANS • Asociacion Salvadorena de Derechos Humanos – Entre Amigos • El SalvadorG Guatemala • Organización de Apoyo a una Sexualidad Integral frente al Sida • Red Multicultural de Mujeres Trans de Guatemala - REDMMUTRANS • Red Nacional de Diversidad Sexual y VIH de Guatemala • Trabastidores • 1 anonymous member Guyana • Guyana RainBow Foundation Inc. – GuyBow Haiti • Ma liberté • Organisation Arc-en-ciel d’Haïti (ORAH) Honduras • Asociacion Lesbica Gay ARCOIRIS de Honduras • 1 anonymous member Jamaica • Jamaica Forum of Lesbians All-sexuals and Gays- J-FLAG Mexico • Acción Ciudadana de Construcción Nacional AC • Agencia de Noticias sobre Diversidad Sexual • Agenda LGBT A.C. • Almas Cautivas • Asistencial Tiempo Nuevo AC - ATNAC • BALANCE - Promoción para el Desarrollo y Juventud A.C. • Colectivo Binni Laanu A.C. • Colectivo Seres A.C. • Colectivo Sol - CIDHOM • Colega O. A.C. Colectivo Gay de Occidente A.C. • Comisión Nacional de Diversidad Sexual del Partido de la Revolución Democrática - CNDSPRD • Comité Estatal de Diversidad Sexual de Colima (CEDISE) • Comité Orgullo Puebla - COP • Comunidad metropolitana A.C. nzex COMAC • Comunidad Orgullo GLBTI Tijuana Mexico • Condomóvil AC • El Closet de Sor Juana • Frente Ciudadano Pro Derechos de Transexuales y Transgeneros • Fundación Arcoiris por el respeto a la diversidad sexual - FUNDARDS • Genero Etica y Salud Sexual AC • Grupo de acción información y reflexión Ambiente Texcoco • Grupo Gayente A.C. grupo de la Diversidad sexual de la Riviera Maya • Grupo Lesbico Universitario • Grupo Opción Bisexual • Guadalajara Gay Radio • Humana Nacion Trans • I LOVE CANCUN PRIDE PARADE - ILC PP • Letra S sida cultura y vida cotidiana A.C. • Morelos Sin Discriminación • MujerxMujer... Tu Espacio • Musas de Metal Grupo de Mujeres Gay A.C. • No Dejarse es Incluirse AC • RDfine Colima • Sociedad y Cultura Derechos Humanos y Desarrollo Social • Teatro Cabaret Las Reinas Chulas AC • Transformarte 2.0 A.C • 2 anonymous members Nicaragua • Centro Nicaragüense para el Desarrollo Humano CNPEDH • Centro para la Educación y Prevención del SIDA - CEPRESI • Comunidad Homosexual de Nicaragua (CHN) • Fundación Xochiquetzal • Grupo Lesbico Nicaraguense Safo • Iglesia de la Comunidad Metropolitana de Nicaragua • Iniciativa desde la Diversidad Sexual por los DDHH • 2 anonymous members Panama • Asociacion Hombre y Mujeres Nuevos de Panama • Asociación Nuevos Horizontes GLBTIO Paraguay • Grupo Ñepyrú - Centro de Investigación y Educación Sexual • Paragay • SOMOSGAY Peru • Asociación Amigas por Siempre Promoviendo Tus derechos • Asociación Civil Amistad y Respeto • Asociación Civil Angel Azul • Asociacion Civil de Diversidad Sexual de la Region Callao «Alma chalaca» • Asociación Civil Diversidad San Martinense • Asociación de Gays Feministas El Club de Toby • Asociacion de Travestis con VIH Y SIDA Las Mil Manos de la Solidaridad • Asociacion DESPERTAR • Centro de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos - PROMSEX • ciudadaniasx • Colectivo Claveles Rojos • Colectivo ContraNaturas • Colectivo Uniones Peru • Diario de Lima Gay • Elisa Natalia • Epicentro • Grupo de Mujeres Diversas • Instituto Runa de Desarrollo y Estudios sobre Genero • Kolektiva Rebeldías Lésbicas • Lesbianas independientes feministas socialistas • Lesbianas Unidas Activistas de Piura • LGBT Legal Peru • Movimiento Homosexual de Lima • Mujeres de Otra Indole • Plural Peru • Programa de Soporte a la Auto Ayuda de personas con VIH - PROSA - sección LGBTI • Radio Mujeres • Raiz 2.0 • Red Das Con Equidad (LGBT) • Vida-Integración-Desarrollo-Amor • 1 anonymous member Puerto Rico • Coaì Saint Lucia • CARIFLAGS Caribbean Forum for Liberation and Acceptance of Genders and Sexualities Suriname • Suriname Men United • Women S Way Foundation - WSW Trinidad and Tobago • FreePride Foundation Project Uruguay • Asociación de Minorias Sexuales del Uruguay - A.MI.SE.U. • Campesinas rebeldes • Centro de Estudios DE Genero y diversidad SEXual - CEDEGSEX • Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Sexualidad del Uruguay- CIEI-SU • Durazno Diverso Venezuela • Alianza Lambda de Venezuela • Bloque Socialista Unido de Liberación homosexual • Colectivo Almas • Diversidad e Igualdad a través de la Ley DIVERLEX • FESTDIVQ- Festival Venezolano de Cine de la Diversidad • Fundación para el Desarrollo Integral - FUDEIN • Fundación Reflejos de Venezuela – FRV • Fundación Venezolana de Apoyo a la Diversidad Sexual - FUVADIS • Maturin es Diversidad • Movimiento la cultura es Diversa • Union Afirmativa de Venezuela • Venezuela Diversa Asociacion Civil • 1 anonymous member • Centro Comunitario de Investigacion y Recursos en Sexualidad y Derechos Humanos • K anchay Killa S.A.C. • Machete Gay Tours • Red de Comunicacion e Informacion para Grupos de Ayuda Mutua del Peru - REDECOMS Trinidad and Tobago • REd Initiatives Venezuela • Acción Zuliana por la Vida • Asesoria en educación y salud de Venezuela – ASES ILGA–NORTH AMERICA Full members Canada • Altern-Art de Quebec - GLBT Quebec inc. • ARC International • Association Gai-Cote-Sud • Canadian Labour Congress - Solidarity and Pride Working Group • Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives • Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition • Canadian Union of Public Employees - CUPE/ LGBT group • Canadian Union of Public Employees Toronto District Council - CUPE Toronto/LGBT group • Capital Pride • Coalition Gaie et Lesbienne du Quebec - CGLQ • Conseil Quebecois des Gais et Lesbiennes • December 9th Coalition • EGALE Canada • Fierte Montreal Pride • Fondation Émergence • GAI Ecoute • Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association - GLISA • Gay Persons of Color: An Eye on the Gay Worlds of Color and Their Allies • Groupe regional d intervention social de Quebec -GRIS • Immigration and Refugee BoardResource Centre - Vancouver • Iranian Queer Organization • LGBT Family Coalition Coalition des familles homoparentales • Pink Dot MTL • Pink Triangle Committee ? Ontario Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees • Qmunity • Rainbow Health Ontario • Rainbow Railroad • Solidarity & Pride Committee S & P Ontario Federation of Labour United States of America • Advocates for Informed Choice • Asian and Pacific Islander Family Pride • Atlanta Pride Committee Inc. • Bisexual Network of the USA • Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies / International Resource Network • Christopher Street West/Los Angeles Pride • DESIDYKES South Asian LBT women • Equality Illinois • Federation of Gay Games • Fundación Lorena Borjas • GALA Choruses • Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington DC • Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) Associate members • Georgia Equality • GetaVision Argentina • Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) • Agrupacion XANGO • Greater Palm Springs Pride • GayDatos.com • Heritage of Pride Inc. Bolivia • Human Rights Campaign • IGLHRC • Asociación Vivo en Positivo • Comunidad de Investigación Acción en Derechos • Immigration Equality • Interface Project y Ciudadanías • International Association of Gay and Lesbian Brazil • Associacao Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS - ABIA Martial Artists • International MI CASA Foundation • Movimento Salvador Pela Paz • Núcleo de Desenvolvimento Social e Cultural da • Interpride • It Gets Better Project Bahia – NUDESC • Kentucky Equality Federation Chile • Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc. • Asociacion Pro Famila Aprofa • Latin@s En Acción Colombia • Lavender Seniors of the East Bay • Asociación para la divulgación promoción y • LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland defensa de los derechos humanos e indigenas - • Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Inc Akuaipa Waimakat • Lutherans Concerned/North America • Fundación Para el Desarrollo en Salud • Marriage Equality USA FUNDESALUD • More Light Presbyterians for LGBT Concerns • Fundación Social Gualanday – MIAU • Multicultural Ministry with Sexual Minorities/ Mexico Otras Ovejas (Other Sheep) • Calmecac Alianza Ciudadana A.C. • National Gay & Lesbian Task Force • Mr Gay World Mexico • NESsT - Galeforce Capital Nicaragua • Old Lesbians Organizing for Change • Procuraduria para la Defensa de los Derechos • Organization Intersex International USA - OII USA Humanos • OutFront Minnesota • Pride at Work - P@W Panama • Research Institute Without Walls Inc. • Grupo Génesis Panamá Positivo • San Diego LGBT Pride Peru • San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration Committee • SEIU Lavender Caucus • Soulforce Inc. • Southerners on New Ground • St. Paul’s Foundation for International Reconciliation • The Council for Global Equality • The Honolulu Pride Festival Foundation • The Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center - NYC • The Loft • The National LGBT Bar Association • The World Congress of Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Jews Inc. – WCGLBTJ • USC Lambda LGBT Alumni Association • UFCW OUTreach • Youth Transgender & Intersex Educational Services - Youth TIES Associate members Canada • ETFO - Elementary teachers’ Federation of Ontario • Maxcen-Math • Xtra / Pink Triangle Press • United food and commercial workers of Canada United States of America • City of Oakland • Cornell University Library • dotgay.com • Harrington Park Press LLC • Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights • Labadie Collection • Leather Archives & Museum • NAGLREP - The National Association of Gay and Lesbian Real Estate Professionals • San Diego State University • United Church of Christ US ILGA–OCEANIA Full members Australia • {also} Foundation • ACON - Community Health Action • Ambassadors & Bridge Builders International • Australia Gay and Lesbian Immigration Task Force • Australian Bisexual Network • Australian Greens LGBTI members • Brimbank Community Initiatives INC • Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) - Marrickville • Freedom 2 b[e] • Gay & Lesbian Community Services of South Australia • Gay & Lesbian International Sports Association Asia Pacfic • Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby • Gay Free Thinkers • Harbour City Bears • Human Rights Law Centre (LGBTI rights unit) • It Gets Better Australia • Kaleidoscope Human Rights Foundation • Metropolitan Community Church Brisbane • National LGBTI Health Alliance • PFLAG-Perth Inc • Queer Noise • Sydney Star Observer • Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association • Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group • University of Technology Sydney Queer Collective • Victorian AIDS COUNCIL/Gay Men-s Health Centre • Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby • Wear it Purple Fiji • Drodrolagi Movement • Males Empowerment Network Fiji • Oceania Pride • Rainbow Pride Foundation (Fiji) Limited • Survival Advocacy Network • WAC - Fiji Women s Action For Change Kiribati • Tungaru LGBT New Zealand • Agender New Zealand Inc. • ITANZ - Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand • Organisation Intersex International Aotearoa • Pacific Islands Safety & Prevention Project Inc. • Rainbow Wellington • Wellington Gay & Lesbian Christian Community Samoa • Faafafine Association Inc. • Society of Faafaafine in American Samoa - S.O.F.I.A.S. Tonga • Pacific Sexual Diversity Network • Tonga Leiti s Association - TLA ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 31 Staff Natalia Voltchkova Finance manager Renato Sabbadini Executive director Alessia Valenza Membership and communication officer Helen Nolan UN Programme officer Aengus Carroll Researcher on SOGIESC-related socio-legal subjects Daniele Paletta Social media consultant Staff members as per 31 December 2015 32 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 André du Plessis UN Programme and advocacy manager Zhan Chiam Gender identity and gender expression Programme officer The year saw quite a few changes in the staff. After six years as a finance and administration officer for ILGA, Espérance Kana left the team in October 2015. Around the same period, also Alberto Ulises Quero García resigned from his position as UN Programme officer, after having lead the work on the Universal Periodic Review after almost two years. Three more persons have joined us in our office during 2015: Annelise Kannenberg-Canavarro, Paula Olaz and KaraDeMilio have all interned with ILGA, giving an invaluable support to the work of ILGA’s United Nations team. ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 33 Financial information This summary is based on ILGA audited accounts for 2015, which are presented without comparison to 2014. The financial accounts for 2015 and 2014 are not directly comparable as they have been prepared according to two different legislations following the move of ILGA headquarters from Belgium to Switzerland. The total operating expenditures in 2015 was 1,235,240 EUR (1,348,400 CHF), while the total income in 2015 was 1,242,360 EUR (1,356,173 CHF). ILGA ended 2015 with a positive operating results of 7,120 EUR (7,772 CHF). Balance Sheet For year ending December 31, 2015 (in presentation and functional currencies) Assets Current assets Non-current assets Total Assets Liabilities Current liabilities Non-current liabilities Total Liabilities Equity Legal Reserves Results for the year Total Liabilities & Reserves 2015, EUR 2015, CHF 398,807 58,803 457,610 435,342 64,190 499,532 87,372 263,669 351,041 95,377 287,824 383,201 156,120 (49,551) 457,610 170,422 (54,091) 499,532 Statement of Revenues and Expenses For year ending December 31, 2015 (in presentation and functional currencies) Income Core income Project income Total Income Operating Expenses Operational capacity Direct project costs Amortization Total Operating Expenses Operating Results Financial Results Financial Results Total Results 34 | ILGA Annual Report 2015 2015, EUR 2015, CHF 771,766 470,594 1,242,360 842,468 513,705 1,356,173 678’875 548’818 7,547 1,235,240 7,120 741’067 599’094 8,239 1,348,400 7,772 56,671 (49,551) 61,863 (54,091) ILGA’s 2015 Annual Report was coordinated and edited by Daniele Paletta. Spanish translation: Paul Caballero, ILGALAC Graphic Design: Luca Palermo for EdLine ADV The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) 5th floor – Rue Rothschild 20 | 1202 Geneva | Switzerland +41 22 731 3254 | www.ilga.org ILGA Annual Report 2015 | 35 ILGA mourns the loss of all the human rights defenders and members of the LGBTI community who have left us in 2015. Xolile Sane Mabuza “Malume”, Mirka Negroni, Joel Gustave Nana and Diana Sacayán - who was serving as an alternate representative of the Trans secretariat on the board of ILGA when she was killed - are only a few of those who are no longer with us, after having spent the best part of their lives working to advance the human rights of LGBTI persons in their countries, and worldwide. We remember them all, with enormous gratitude.