Humure, one of the few LGBT organisations in central African country of Burundi, where homosexuality is harshly punished by law (some few years ago a bill was introduced to punish it with life sentence), plans  on organising discussions with the 5 major Human Rights defense organisations in the country. The organisation will also organise a meeting of the transgender community from …

In Belgium, Brussels Pride took place, like every year on the Saturday closest to May 17 and united thousands of people. The Rainbowhouse Brussels has also prepared a series of events that started on April 30. You can follow the Pridefestival Brussels on the event page. In total, the pride celebrations saw around 40 events in the capital city. The francophone provinces …

To mark the Day, 30 leading French media and news agencies, amongst which major national daily “Le Monde”, sports daily “L’équipe” and leading agency “MediaPart” signed an anti-homophobia Charter, committing to fair coverage of LGBT diversities and total equality for LGBT staff. The French organisation Comité IDAHO, which focuses on mobilising around May 17 in France, has supported the mobilisation programme …

In Malang, the Kojigema Institute had planned to hold the event  ‘Celebrate Our Gender’ on May 17, but due to intense intimidation and threats ahead of IDAHOT the talk show event had to be CANCELLED. In a joint statement the organisers say that on May 15 and May 16 members of the organising team received several phone calls in which they were urged not …

What better way to make your voice heard than using radio broadcasting! Radio has informed and entertained us for a century and even today with internet and TV, wireless transmission of radio programmes is a powerful tool to reach out to people, not only in more remote parts of the world. So, it is no wonder that radio programmes still …