The Global Equality Caucus has today published a new report, Decriminalising HIV: Strategies and best practice for legislators, which examines how elected representatives can address and reform laws that unfairly criminalise HIV transmission, non-disclosure and exposure.
Read MoreSince our last update on our Ban Conversion Therapy Now! campaign we have seen encouraging progress in several jurisdictions, with new laws, draft proposals, and encouraging statements from governments.
Read MoreThe Parliamentary Platform for the rights of LGBTI people in Europe brings together MPs from the national delegations to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, observers and partners for democracy.
Read MoreRepresentatives from the Global Equality Caucus were in Montevideo this month with regional stakeholders to meet with government officials and legislators to talk about LGBT+ priorities for Uruguay and the wider region, following the second part of our Latin America launch in Buenos Aires in May.
Read MoreThe Global Equality Caucus welcomes a new briefing from the European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBTI Rights, which outlines different laws that prohibit ‘conversion therapy’ in EU Member States.
Read MoreTo coincide with IDAHOBIT and the 10 year anniversary of Argentina’s gender identity law, on 16-17 May the Global Equality Caucus completed its launch in Latin America with an event in Buenos Aires.
Read MoreOn 1-2 April, the Global Equality Caucus launched in Latin America at an event in Mexico City, which brought together legislators, LGBT+ officials, activists and human rights champions from across Central America and the Caribbean.
Read MoreFollowing the withdrawal of support from UK civil society and business, the UK Government has cancelled the Safe To Be Me LGBT rights conference, which had been scheduled to take place 29 June – 1 July 2022.
Read MoreThe Global Equality Caucus is deeply alarmed by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, in violation of international law and human rights standards. We condemn the violence that is happening across the country.
Read MoreA bill to prohibit LGBT+ ‘conversion therapy’ has been sponsored by two of the governing parties in the Netherlands, in news welcomed by the Global Equality Caucus.
Read MoreNew Zealand has become the seventh country to introduce a nationwide ban on ‘conversion therapy’ after parliamentarians granted final approval to new legal measures, in news welcomed by the Global Equality Caucus.
Read MoreThe first openly gay man elected to the Honduran Congress described his election as a “very important” milestone for the country’s LGBTQ community.
Read MoreBelgian Senator Fourat Ben Chikha has spoken openly to the Global Equality Caucus about his personal exposure to ‘conversion therapy’ and the damaging effect it can have on people’s lives.
Read MoreThe Global Equality Caucus has hired an openly gay man who ran for the El Salvador National Assembly last year, who will oversee our work throughout Latin America.
Read MoreThe Global Equality Caucus has officially launched its new campaign to ban conversion therapy, at an event held during the Victory Institute's International LGBTQ Leaders Conference 2021 in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreNick Herbert, the UK’s Special Envoy on LGBT Rights and the Chair of the Global Equality Caucus, visited Washington D.C. this month to meet with US officials and with legislators gathered at the Victory Institute conference.
Read MoreThe Global Equality Caucus has launched a new campaign to mobilise legislators to support efforts to ban conversion therapy around the world, with lawmakers signing a pledge against abhorrent conversion practices.
Read MoreThe Global Equality Caucus is pleased to announce that human rights champion Aron le Fèvre is joining our organisation as Deputy Director for Programmes, as we begin an exciting year of growth and campaigning.
Read MoreAs part of the Copenhagen 2021 Human Rights Forum, parliamentarians and elected officials from across the world joined the Interparliamentary Plenary Assembly, hosted by the Danish Parliament at the Christiansborg Palace on 20 August.
Read MoreIn a blog post for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, Caucus Co-Founder Louisa Wall MP looks back at the LGBT+ equality won in New Zealand and her experiences as an openly-LGBT parliamentarian.
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