Between 200 and 300 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people attended a pride parade on Saturday (August 3), in the highlight of Kampala’s week-long Pride Festival. The event proceeded peacefully in only the second time that a pride parade has been held in the country.
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Read this week’s statement from the Russian LGBT Network regarding a potential boycott of the Winter Olympics and Paralympics due to be held in Stochi, February 7 – 20, 2014. The statement, ‘Winter Olympics, Let’s Speak Up, Not Walk Out
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A New Report, focused specifically on Belize, suggests that right-wing religious groups from the United States are increasingly shifting their attention, to keep criminal statutes in force outside of US borders.
Read More »UN Human Rights Office Launches Pioneering Global LGBT Equality Campaign
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), officially launched its first ever global outreach campaign in favour of equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, on Friday July 26, 2013. The campaign, called ‘Free & Equal’, constitutes a groundbreaking endeavour by the Office, to challenge and to change public attitudes around the world on issues which have …
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