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Resources for the Global LGBTI Philanthropic Response to COVID-19

Global Philanthropy Project (GPP) is a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic support to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in the Global South and East.

Governments must do more to prevent slavery and exploitation during COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk that people at the edges of society will be pushed into slavery, trafficking and/or sexual exploitation, and governments must do more to protect them, say UN human rights experts

Business, Workplace and LGBTI Equality: best practices and challenges ahead

This event aims to bring together different stakeholders - including civil society, corporations, international organisations, and trade unions - in order to address different aspects of the topic of Business, Workplace and LGBTI equality, discuss the legal framework established by international human rights law, share best practices and debate the challenges faced - especially those imposed by the current global pandemic.

IGNITE! Empowerment Grants recipients

Youth Voices Count is glad to welcome November with a fabulous update in our IGNITE! Empowerment Grants programme. The IGNITE! Empowerment Grants was founded and first launched back in December 2019. Until today, it intends to provide seed grants to youth-led LGBTIQ organizations and initiatives from the Asia-Pacific region.

US: Christian groups spent $280m fighting LGBT+ rights, abortion overseas

Right-wing U.S. groups have put more than $280 million into campaigns against LGBT+ rights and abortion worldwide since 2007, almost $90 million of which focused on Europe

France: National action plan for equality, against hatred and anti-LGBT + discrimination

With 42 concrete actions, the government's new national action plan is based on four areas: recognition of the rights of LGBT + people; strengthening their access to rights; fighting anti-LGBT + hatred and improving the daily life of LGBT + people.

Upholding human rights in times of crisis and pandemics: gender, equality and non-discrimination

The Covid-19 pandemic is more than a global health crisis. Its impact on human lives around the world has been devastating, with millions of people infected and hundreds of thousands killed. But its ramifications have also extended far beyond the realm of health.