IDAHOTB DAHOT International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

Candles were lit and one minute of silence observed as a show of support for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Activists staged a public demonstration in front of the Education Department in San Juan to highlight the need to include a gender perspective within the country’s education system.

The Portuguese LGBT network Rede ExAequo marked the Day with a free hugs public event

Activists in the Philippines held a range of events to mark IDAHO 2012.

Two training seminars were held in Manila: The first, in conjunction with the Commission on Human Rights and the US Embassy in Manila, was a three-day workshop entitled “If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?

annual reportfocused on LGBT human rights cases in 2011. The report followed the enforcement of the Peruvian government’s commitments to the Yogyakarta Principles.