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Press releases
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Media Release - May 17, 2012
1.5 billion people currently live under laws that criminalize same-sex relationships.
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Media Release - May 16, 2012
Threats and attacks on activists with just 24 hours left to IDAHO
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Media Release - May 15, 2012
IDAHO campaign puts discrimination in education into the spotlight
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Media Release - May 14, 2012
Millions of people around the globe set for IDAHO 2012
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Official 2011 International Day Against Homphobia and Transphobia Media Release
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia Media Release
For immediate release
International, May 11th, 2011
An impressive global program for the 7th edition of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia is taking place around May 17th with hundreds of events planned in over 50 countries. The Day’s activities take place among growing international tensions between progressive developments and reactionary outbursts, including the now infamous Ugandan ‘anti-gay’ bill (...)
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Groundbreaking Statement at the Human Rights Council
Media release, March 22, 2011 For immediate release The IDAHO Committee welcomes the Declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity, which was presented today at the Council of Human Rights United Nations
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Official Statement from the IDAHO Committee against the Death Penalty
Read the full statement
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Today is International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day.
An Editorial on how International Women’s Day and International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia connect.
An Editorial on how International Women’s Day and International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia connect.
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Joint Statement of the IDAHO Committee and InterPride on the upcoming Gay Pride March in St Petersburg, Russia
Read the joint media release from the IDAHO Committee and Interpride
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Malawi
IDAHO Committee salutes Malawi President Mutharika’s decision to pardon jailed couple
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International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia 2012 - Close to 100 countries participating
 New countries joining International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia celebrations for the first time, including countries among those which keep 1,5 BILLION people under laws that criminalize same sex relationships.
News getting in about global mobilization worldwide.
New countries joining International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia celebrations for the first time, including countries among those which keep 1,5 BILLION people under laws that criminalize same sex (...)
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Costa Rica
Costa Rica : organisations ask for IDAHO to feature in official school program
 The main national Costa Rican movements for diversity joined public institutions to demand equal rights on May 17, celebrated in Costa Rica as the National Day Against Homophobia, lesbophobia and Transphobia.
With a march in downtown Guadalupe, dozens of people paralyzed traffic to demand an end to homophobia and unite for equality, confronting President Laura Chinchillan who declared that human rights are not a priority of her administration.
The Ombudsman for the People, Ofelia (...)
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India
Organisations in India’s West Bengal region stage street protest on IDAHO
 Faced with total and unjustified suspension of their subsidies from the State, activists used the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia as the stage to set a massive protest public action, which attracted extensive media coverage
Manas Bangla is a network of 13 community-based organisations engaged in the distribution of medical and social support to approximately 10,000 homosexual men, transgenders and Hijras in West Bengal
Faced with total and unjustified suspension of (...)
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United Kingdom
Speaker of UK House of Commons speaks up on IDAHO
 "Through education, through campaigning and through the sheer force of moral suasion, we must strive to deliver equality for LGBT people that others have so long enjoyed and they have too long been denied." John Bercow
Kaleidoscope Trust’s President and Speaker of the UK House of Commons gave a speech on IDAHO, which was attended by the UK Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone, and other MPs and Members of the House of Lords
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South Africa
South African Youth celebrate IDAHO
 As part of their youth development work, the Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA), a NGO based at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, has been mentoring young LGBT people in campaign building around issues that affect them.
As a result, students put together an exciting campaign for IDAHO, which included a silent protest at University Avenue, a flash mob and a panel discussion about campaign building.
Photos of the event can be accessed on the Facebook page of (...)
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