Human Rights Day

Each year a core group of Countries, in partnership with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, organizes a panel event on the human rights of LGBTI people in celebration of International Human Rights Day. This year the event will look at the economic cost of excluding LGBTI people.

When Coming Out Is A Death Sentence: Policy Strategies to Address the Persecution of LGBT Persons in Iraq and Under ISIS

On November 24th, we are taking part in a panel discussion on the "Policy Strategies to Address the Persecution of LGBT Persons Under ISIS"

Speakers:

Omair Paul, UN Representative, Muslims for Progressive Values

Hossein Alizadeh, MENA Program Coordinator, Outright Action International
(formerly, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission)

High Level LGBT Core Group Event At The UN

OutRight co-organized a high level LGBTIQ Core Group event at the United Nations to speak out against discrimination and ​violence​ towards LGBTIQ individuals. Speakers included UN ​Secretary General Ban​ ​Ki​-​​m​o​on;​​ ​f​ormer Botswana ​President ​Festus Mogae​;​ and ​Pakistani h​uman ​r​ights lawyer ​and civil society activist ​Hina Jilani.

 

 

See Fun Home on Broadway with IGLHRC!

Usher in Pride month on Wednesday, June 3rd with IGLHRC at the first musical featuring a closeted gay father and his lesbian daughter!

Join us in New York as author Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic novel, Fun Home comes to Broadway! The award-winning musical features the forbidden loves of a repressed father as he learns - or fails to learn - from his lesbian daughter.