March 2006 - N° 120

Come Out in Geneva

At their last world conference in Manila, ILGA members gave a clear mandate to ILGA’s newly elected board: have sexual orientation and gender identity come out at the UN. Not surprisingly, Geneva, host of the UN commission on Human Rights - CHR - was also chosen to host ILGA’s next world conference...ILGA will end a two-year campaign for LGBT visibility at the UN holding its 23rd world meeting a few stepsaway from the United Nations...

Outgames Montréal

International Conference - The Right to Be Different
July 26 to 29 2006
At a time in history when human rights and civil liberties around the world are often not recognised or are being eroded, the 1st World Outgames Montréal 2006 invites you, your friends and your organisation to attend the International Conference on LGBT Rights at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal.

XXIII ILGA World Conference - Geneva

The main conference will, from 30th March to 3rd April, include various tracks enabling you to pick between numerous themes, beside plenary sessions where the future of ILGA will be discussed and decided. We expect Africa to be central to the whole conference with a special attention to what is happening now in Nigeria and also the presence of many activists from French speaking West Africa we are happy to meet... The biggest success would be to see organizations having already achieved a lot reaching out to those organizations in less fortunate situations...by Yves de Matteis

Transgender Issues

• Strengthening the rights of Transgender people and focusing transgender identity as a political proposal: what's the way forward? by Armand Hotimsky and Belissa Andía Pérez
• Tragic situation of Transgender people in the Islamic Republic of Iran. by Taraneh Forouhar

Religions and Homosexuality

• What can we do to assure as a given our right to live our faith? by François Haaker-Chijner
• Thinking of homosexuality in Islam. by Mourad Massi

Lesbian Health

Common concerns, local issues. Putting women's health on the agenda.
Extracts from ILGA's report on Lesbian and Bisexual women's health

Discrimination at the Workplace

I was fired because I'm Gay
Interview with Roberto Mendoza, fired by Coca Cola FEMSA

Gay Men's Health

Why Gay Health? by Michael Hauserman
For 20 years HIV/AIDS has taken centre stage. It has hidden other problems. Often gay organisations that dealt with problems other than HIV/AIDS failed to get any subsidies...

Never been at an ILGA conference before?

How many voting cards do I get? Can I vote if I cannot attend? Which positions are to be filled? - Here's your chance to understand how it works and how to make the best out of it...

ILGA's work since 2003 | Africa

• From Manila to the present day: view from the Board of ILGA
• Message from Co-Secretary General Rosanna Flamer-Caldera