April 8, 2021
On March 24, 2021, PGA co-organized a side event to the UN’s 65th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) titled “Women Leaders as Advocates for Equality and Inclusion of LGBTI+ Persons.
June 22nd, 2020
by Robeyoncé Lima, the first trans woman to be elected in the northern State of Pernambuco in Brazil
February 4th, 2020
PGA’s SOGI Campaign would like to express our hopes and dreams for equality in 2020...
June 21st, 2019
Brazil has taken an important step for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community with a Supreme Court ruling...
May 21st, 2019
By Senator Valerie Woods, member of the Senate of Belize and member of the Board of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA)
May 17th, 2019
Por Carla Pitiot, Diputada en el Congreso de la Nación Argentina, Presidenta del Grupo Nacional de PGA en Argentina y miembro de la Junta Directiva de PGA
May 14th, 2019
By Diputado Fidel Santana, Chair of the Human Rights Committee in the Chamber of Deputies of Dominican Republic and member of Parliamentarians for Global Action.
October 5th, 2018
A regressive 19th century law, that is a legacy of British rule, continues to exist in 10 of the 12 independent Commonwealth Caribbean states. It effectively outlaws homosexuality.
August 2, 2018
Transgender people constitute one of the most marginalized communities in my country, Pakistan, and they face social exclusion and discrimination in areas such as education, employment and healthcare.
January 24, 2018
In November 2006, an international group of experts met in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta to develop a set of principles that would apply the standards of international human rights law to the problems that affect LGBTI people.
November 3, 2017
In his book “Moses and the Monotheistic Religion,” Sigmund Freud says that democracies are exceptions and not rules, because there is something in the human character that tends toward authoritarianism.
September 11, 2017
On July 14, a group of representatives of the LGBTI community of Dominican Republic made an official visit to the National Congress, where they met with a number of parliamentarians.
June 28, 2017
Today, June 28th, we celebrate LGBTI Pride Day, which commemorates the Stonewall riots that started on this date in 1969 and are widely considered to have sparked the gay liberation movement.
May 17, 2017
“All you need is love,” Lennon and McCartney left written for posterity. They had a point, didn’t they? Love is one of the most potent forces that can be harnessed, one of the main drivers of human beings everywhere.
April 1, 2017
Welcome to PGA’s LGBTI Inclusion Site, an online resource to better understand the unique role you have as a parliamentarian in ensuring equality and non-discrimination of all individuals regardless of who they are or whom they love.
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