ILGA World

To date, around one-third of United Nations member States continue to criminalise consensual same-sex relations between adults. Diverse forms of gender expressions are equally targeted. Only a few States protect trans people from discrimination on the grounds of their gender identity, and almost none have laws protecting intersex persons from unnecessary and abusive medical procedures. […]

To date, around one-third of United Nations member States continue to criminalise consensual same-sex relations between adults. Diverse forms of gender expressions are equally targeted. Only a few States protect trans people from discrimination on the grounds of their gender identity, and almost none have laws protecting intersex persons from unnecessary and abusive medical procedures.

Other laws feed­ off this discrimination, influencing all aspects of LGBTI persons’ lives, and send the wrong message that people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) deserve to be treated unequally.

This project intends to support LGBTl-led organisations in addressing those laws sustainably through training, support, toolkits, and collaborative efforts, and raise awareness internationally on SOGIESC human rights violations and economic and social injustice.

In this project, ILGA World will strengthen its support to grassroots organisations in at least 16 countries worldwide to advocate human rights based on SOGIESC. LGBTI activists will be empowered to work through United Nations human rights mechanisms and in the Sustainable Development Goals processes framework. They will then use global level outcomes to bring about change in their own countries.

The project is supported with SEK 4 620 000.