This year, the United Nations agencies have been particularly active in marking the Day. Read more about the way the UN marked the Day here.

The new 30 minute documentary features a very wide range of activists and policy-makers from around the world, reflecting on the international fight for rights based on sexual orientation and gender identity, at the United Nations in particular. The question of culture and gender/sexuality features particularly strongly, as people from diverse societies examine what LGBTQI identities and politics mean, in …

December 10, 2013 – the 65th annual Human Rights Day – is set to be observed with a huge wave of commemorations across the world. An amazing diversity of people are set to participate, highlighting everything from the needs of refugees, to the accumulation of global arms, to state-sanctioned torture and disappearances, to access to life saving medicines, to violence …

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 …