Trinidad and Tobago IDAHO Report 2012

In commemoration of IDAHO 2012, Trinidad and Tobago’s LGBT community focused on equal opportunity legislation that has been stalled in Parliament for the past year. Repeating a 2011 “walkabout” to government offices, they went from the Equal Opportunity Commission to the Parliament, at opposite ends of a major avenue in the capital. They asked arriving Parliamentarians to pass a bill outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and age, and the Commissioners to study SOGI discrimination and make recommendations for action to the Government