BANGKOK / GENEVA (30 November 2016) – Five key steps are needed to end discrimination and violence against the worldwide LGBT community, a United Nations human rights expert has told an international...

GENEVA (22 November 2016) - People from LGBTI communities around the world are experiencing a proliferation in hate speech, including “rampant” social media attacks, as well as violence and...

GENEVA (21 November 2016) – A Committee of United Nations human rights specialists is very concerned that some countries are seeking to retrospectively block the creation of the mandate of an...

Strasbourg, 17 November 2016 The UN Human Rights Council in its resolution 32/2 this year established the mandate of Independent Expert on the Protection against Violence and Discrimination based on...