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Centring LBQ women: Shaping a new global agenda for gender justice

Together with its LBQ women’s advocacy week partners, ILGA World worked strategically to create a dedicated and visible space for lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans women and gender diverse people within multilateral human rights environment.
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7 key takeaways from the UN’s first report on lesbian, bisexual and queer women

Explore the key findings of the historic publication presented by the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, addressing the violence and discrimination affecting lesbian, bisexual, and queer women
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ILGA World further strengthens support to LGBTI activists turning UN recommendations into real change

Access new, practical, hands-on tools for engaging the United Nations human rights system: the fully revised 2026 edition of the “SOGIESC UPR advocacy toolkit” and the brand-new “Good practices guide for follow-up on United Nations recommendations”
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ILGA World is a global federation of more than 2,300 member organisations from 170 countries campaigning for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex people. Since 1978.

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Since 1978, we have been committed to equal human rights for rainbow communities and their liberation from all forms of discrimination.

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Good practices guide for follow-up on United Nations recommendations

This is ILGA World’s first publication to bring together follow-up practices across treaty bodies, UPR, Special Procedures and the Sustainable Development Goals
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Cover of a 2026 ILGA World publication titled 'SOGIESC UPR Advocacy Toolkit: A Guide for Defenders Working on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression and Sex Characteristics.' Close-up photo of a person wearing a rainbow-colored bandana around their neck, set against a dark blue background with yellow text, and the ILGA World logo

SOGIESC UPR advocacy toolkit (2026)

With the SOGIESC UPR Advocacy Toolkit, ILGA World offers guidance to LGBTI human rights defenders engaging in the Universal Periodic Review
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Annual Report 2025

The ILGA World 2025 Annual Report offers a summary of a year of work supporting LGBTI communities worldwide
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Events

Decriminalisation led by communities: How States & the UN can support without causing harm

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Making human rights recommendations work: A practical guide for civil society advocacy

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United Nations: Deadlines to engage with human rights bodies

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