Description

This Handbook sets out practical advice as to how you, as an MP, can:

• make use of the global and regional human rights frameworks that oblige your government to ensure the human rights and inclusion of LGBTI people;
• find the entry points that will enable you to act, in whatever your national context, to promote LGBTI rights and inclusion;
• use your multiple roles – legislative, representative and oversight – to protect LGBTI human rights and inclusion and hold your government to account on its obligations to do so;
• work with communities and allies across political divides to frame laws, shape legal and policy frameworks and lead political campaigns for the human rights of your LGBTI constituents;
• apply lessons learned from successful actions taken by your fellow MPs across the globe to help you to step up and speak out effectively in your own country.