U.S. singer Cyndi Lauper, who is set to win the United Nations’ new social justice award, said on Wednesday that her drive to end LGBT+ homelessness began in support of family and friends.
UN: Call for inputs on conversion therapy
The Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity will present a thematic report at the 44th session of the Human Rights Council which will focus on practices of so-called “conversion therapy” on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse people around the world.
Ensuring that people and communities have the power to choose, to know, to thrive and to demand is the key to ending AIDS
Game-changing approaches, such as medicine to prevent HIV (PrEP), integration of contraceptive services with HIV testing, viral load suppression (U = U), harm reduction, and comprehensive sexuality education, give people the power to protect themselves from HIV and, for people living with HIV, the power to thrive
World AIDS Day 2019 message from UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima
Communities at The Forefront in the HIV/AIDS Response
Since the first identification of HIV/AIDS in the United States of America (USA), in 1981, approximately 80 million people have been infected with HIV, and over 40 million have died of AIDS – the highest global death toll of all time – and also one of the world’s most serious public health challenges.
U.N. envoy urges Latin America to tackle conservative attack on LGBT+ rights
Colombia: Fight against homophobia and transphobia
For the first time, the International Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bi and Trans in Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC) invited activists from Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyana to participate in its annual conference. This approach corresponds to ILGALAC's desire to develop deeper and deeper relations with the French territories of America beyond the language barrier.
Colombia: UN LGBTQ rights watchdog talks visibility, global backlash
El Salvador: Naciones Unidas llama a investigar y sancionar crímenes de odio
The United Nations System in El Salvador calls on national authorities responsible for investigating these crimes to punish the perpetrators, to recognize transphobia as aggravating, and to take urgent measures to prevent further acts of violence based on prejudice and hate against the LGBTI community.