SOUTH AFRICA | 20100424205141| ILGA
More still needs to be done to sensitize the media and service providers such as police to effectively handle issues of sexual minorities.

| 20100427142501| Written anonymously.
The 4th Asian Regional Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Intersex Association (ILGA) conference scheduled to be held on March 26-29, 2010 in Surabaya, Indonesia,ended before it could start. Conference participants were threatened by religious fundamentalist groups in Surabaya led by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI). The ILGA organizers were forced to cancel the conference. The participants had to evacuate the The Oval Hotel where the conference was to be held. This was the second venue as the participants were earlier forced to leave The Mercure, the original conference venue. Participants were evacuated as they could not rely on the hotel management and the police to secure and ensure their safety. Local LGBT groups who sponsored the conference continue to be harassed by some Islamic fundamentalist groups.

CROATIA | 20100419160613| ILGA Administrative Office
Lesbian Group Kontra and Iskorak – Group for Promotion and Protection of Different Sexual Orientations, has published the 2009 Annual Report on the Status of Human Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Croazia.

WORLD| 20100422034252| ILGA
A psychiatric diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder fosters stigma and discrimination, escalating vulnerability of transgender persons to social exclusion and disease

COLOMBIA | 20100305112111|
There is little information regarding the status of human rights of lesbian and bisexual women in Colombia. Difficulties related with the inexistence of state information systems or human rights organizations that include variables on the sexual orientation and gender identity of the victims, prevents the work of human rights defenders to shed some light on the real situation of this population.

UNITED STATES | 20100304182758|
Metropolitan Community Churches Congratulate Washington D.C. on this Historic Day of U.S. Marriage Equality

AUSTRALIA | 20100223160430| ILGA
Tasmanian gay rights advocates have welcomed a decision by the NSW Government to introduce a relationship register but have warned it must include official ceremonies and non-conjugal relationships if it is to be consistent with existing civil partnership schemes in Tasmania, Victoria and the ACT.

| 20100427020354| Written anonymously.
In this interview, one of the leading feminists from the South,Kamla Bhasin shared her thoughts about fundamentalisms, United States'intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan and its impact on women, the United Nations, the World Social Forum, feminism and much more.