ANNUAL REPORT INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANS and INTERSEX ASSOCIATION Table of Contents
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2012 ANNUAL REPORT INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATION TABLE OF CONTENTS 02 Vision, Mission and Strategic objectives 03 Thanks and acknowledgements Foreword from the Secretaries Generals 04 by Gloria Careaga and Renato Sabbadini A message from the Executive Director 07 by Sebastian Rocca Your Global LGBTI federation: Embracing the movement! Stockholm: global movement meets in the snow for a 09 warm and successful world conference Membership: ILGA reaches 1005 members and “talks” to 4500 LGBTI 13 organisations worldwide! Supporting the growth of LGBTI movements in 15 the Global South: ILGA’s Regional Development and Communication Project 18 World Pride in London: ILGA under the spotlight! Your voice at the United Nations: LGBTI rights are human rights! 2012 at the UN: ILGA deepens its engagement at the 19 United Nations Activism! Tools for change for the L, G, B, T and I communities 24 Second Forum on Intersex Organising 6th edition of the State Sponsored Homophobia 26 report 27 Global maps go… local! 29 ILGA stands up for lesbian rights! Activism! Tools for change for the L, G, B, T and I communities 30 Financial information 32 ILGA Executive Board and its members in 2012 FRIC AN A A IL P GA S T L H E S G I B R I A N N A * M G U A Y H * E B R I A S T E X H U G I A R L * T R R E A T N N S I * ILGA ANNUAL REPORT 2012 THIS REPort OUTLINES THE WORK undertaKEN BY ILGA staFF, board, MEMBERS AND Volunteers FroM January – DECEMBER 2012. IT IS based ON ILGA’S NEW strategic PLAN FOR 2011-2013 AND THE 2012 OPerational PLAN. About ILGA ILGA, founded in 1978, is the world federation of national and local organisations dedicated to achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) people and their liberation from all forms of discrimination everywhere. ILGA’s Vision ILGA’s vision is of a world where the human rights of all are respected and everyone can live in equality and freedom; a world that is enriched by the diversity of sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions. Mission • To act globally and regionally as a voice for the rights of those who face discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. • To promote equality and freedom by lobbying,advocacy and communication, and by educating and informing relevant international and regional institutions as well as governments, media and civil society. • To facilitate cooperation and solidarity among ILGA regions and members • To provide leadership to human rights organisations, including our members, in promoting and protecting human rights Strategic Objectives for 2011 - 2013 • Enhance the capacity of ILGA - members, regions, boards and staff to achieve its mission by providing opportunities for networking, participation in advocacy and lobbying campaigns and best practice sharing • Assert the application of human rights standards and principles without discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression; and increasing attention to violations of human rights • Advance the global LGBTI movement by gathering, analyzing and disseminating the information generated by our members ILGA ANNUAL REPORT 2012 THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ILGA is grateful for the work and support of its volunteers, staff and Executive Board. ILGA is particularly thankful to its members not only for their financial support but also for the time and energy they dedicate to furthering ILGA’s aims and objectives. Thank you also to the following organizations: ILGA, 17 Rue de la Charité - B - 1210 - Brussels, Belgium Tel/Fax: + 32 (0)2 502 24 71 - [email protected] www.ilga.org ILGA ANNUAL REPORT 2012 FOREWORD FROM ILGA CO-SECRETARIES GENERAL Gloria Careaga and Renato Sabbadini 2012 could have not ended better for ILGA as we gathered in historic numbers in Stockholm in December, thanks to the hard work of our friends at RFSL who hosted our 26th world conference. For its 34 years of history, ILGA was celebrated with the biggest ever LGBTI world conference, a celebration which saw friends and fellow activists coming from all parts of the world. Another record was also broken as our federation now counts ILGA in context over a thousand members. There is much to rejoice as ILGA keeps building on its A fear around the financial crisis, i.e. success and appears to be as solid as that it would divert the attention of ever. governing and legislative bodies from issues concerning the rights of LGBTI This achievement would not have been people, has not materialised, for the possible without the support, either in better and for the worse. For the better, the form of work or financial resources, because several countries have adopted of several actors, whose contribution we legislation advancing the equality of are grateful and happy to acknowledge as LGBTI people, while the UN Human Rights we introduce this annual report, starting Council continues on its exciting journey with the Executive Director and the staff acknowledging the existence and hardship of ILGA: Sebastian faced by our people and reflecting Rocca, Patricia on how best it can address Curzi, Stephen Giving the regions discrimination based on sexual Barris, Esperance the necessary orientation and gender identity. Kana, Alessia For the worse, because certain Valenza and in the capacity and means to function governments and parliaments, regions: Apinda influenced by different types of with much greater Mpako, Jennifer religious forces with an impact Josef, and Paul autonomy and on the cultural means, insist on Caballero. For strength is a task their plans to introduce legislation most of our ILGA can no longer punishing people because of Members this afford to postpone their sexual orientation and team of dedicated gender identity or because they people represents defend the rights of LGBTI people, the face of ILGA while trying at the same time to stop in its day-to-day work and reality: we the advancements at the UN level by are very proud of them and consider us advocating the defence of “traditional fortunate that they work for ILGA. values”. ILGA ANNUAL REPORT 2012 While investing in staff training on UN A global player issues has born fruit, the increased Re-gaining the ECOSOC Status at the presence in Geneva during the Human UN has represented for ILGA the healing Rights Council sessions and other UN of wound, providing a very necessary sessions is beginning to show its strain sense of closure in relation to a state of from a logistical perspective, prompting affairs that has influenced the internal a feasibility study as to the possibility of life of the organisation and has allowed strengthening our presence in the city on us to increase our presence at the UN a more solid basis. with renewed strength and motivation, making it possible The State-sponsored for us to bring more Homophobia Report, member organisation There is a growing soon to be accompanied by a State-sponsored representatives and demand for a report activists to Geneva Transphobia Report, has during the UPR covering forms of grown in size, detail sessions of the Human persecution and and quality, thanks to Rights Council and discrimination by the work of a growing for our annual report non-state actors international team on State-sponsored of scholars who vet homophobia to be the findings of the quoted explicitly as a editors, and to the one of the sources behind the report of contributions of member organisations the Human Rights High Commissioner. writing articles and facilitating local information for it. Thanks to the work Having ECOSOC status also means to of a dozen translators, the report is be an active actor at all UN Conferences now available in four languages, while and Sessions: a key feature, and allowing its accompanying map is available in us to plan our participation to future 14, including Chinese, Arabic and Hindi, conferences, like the Cairo + 20 on thus reaching an unprecedented global population and development, where we audience and turning into a powerful will be able to express our positions with advocacy tool in the hands of our our own name. There is a much greater members and allies everywhere. The potential now, for a more pro-active role report is now regularly referenced by and for a greater interconnection with UN agencies, international human rights other key human rights NGOs, including organisations and mainstream media. As our traditional allies, like we make progress at the Amnesty International, UN level, however, there Human Rights Watch, This is precisely is a growing demand Arc-International, GATE, the information for a report covering IGLHRC, COC and RFSL, forms of persecution whose competence and needed to pressure and discrimination by dedication has been UN members into non-state actors, as this proven by bringing to the taking a stronger is precisely the kind of discussion of every HRC stance against information needed to session the LGBTI rights violence and pressure UN members and other successes of into taking a stronger the last years. discrimination stance against violence and discrimination based ILGA ANNUAL REPORT 2012 ILGA’s board met three times in 2012: in New York hosted by the Open Societies Foundation(our pictures), in Brussels and in Stockholm prior to the World Conference. it was agreed to consult the memberships again in 2013-14 as part of an on-going process of assessing membership on sexual orientation and gender identity. needs. This will be the – very challenging – task As mentioned above, ILGA has now more for the next years as reliable providers of than 1000 members and this number is LGBTI related information worldwide.