Finland IDAHO Report 2012
The main IDAHO event in Finland in 2012 was a seminar organized in Helsinki in the gay restaurant dtm on May 16th (as May 17th was a national holiday). The event was organized by Seta – LGBTI Rights in Finland...
Fiji IDAHO Report 2012
Activists in Fiji persisted with events despite police at the cancelling of a permit that was given to march in commemoration of IDAHO. One-hundred and forty people attended a panel discussion on the 2012 IDAHO theme of “Fighting homo/transphobia IN...
Ecuador IDAHO Report 2012
Activists in Quito marked IDAHO with a public kissing event in Gabriela Mistral Square, while in Guayaquil activists held a sit-in front of the Guayas Governor’s house. The objectives in each city respectively were to raise awareness about sexual orientation...
Cuba IDAHO Report 2012
Cuba’s first daughter Mariela Castro led a gay rights marched in Havana to mark IDAHO. During the parade, she hinted that Cuba would soon legalize same-sex unions. The main IDAHO activities were held in Havana and Cien Fuegos in partnership...
Croatia IDAHO Report 2012
The Government’s office for gender equality of Croatia, following the formal recognition of the Day by the government in 2011, marked IDAHO for first time by holding a meeting with the organisation Zagreb Pride and by promoting the Day on...
Costa Rica IDAHO Report 2012
Costa Rican activists joined public institutions to demand equal rights on May 17. 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...
Colombia IDAHO Report 2012
Activists from Barranquilla celebrated IDAHO 2012 with the theme “Towards a Barranquilla without Prejudice”. After 25 murders, nine cases of abusive treatment by police and 15 violent acts committed by members of the public in Barranquilla in the past five...
China IDAHO Report 2012
Various activities were organized around IDAHO in more than 30 cities, including a rainbow ride, public educational activities, a kiss-in, a flash mob, the staging of a street drama, film screenings and discussion, a micro-blog initiative on anti-discrimination, and an online...
Canada IDAHO Report 2012
Canadian activists were once again active throughout the country for IDAHO 2012, with a range of events staged. Quebec based Fondation Emergence, which launches every year a mobilisation campaign that stretches beyond the province’s borders, mobilized this year on promoting...
Cameroon IDAHO Report 2012
On a continent where the mobilisation against homophobia and transphobia is particularly difficult, Cameroonian activists boldly developed a large program of action in the city of Yaoundé, including a workshop for LGBT activists, a public conference with thematic forums, and...
Cambodia IDAHO Report 2012
Cambodia’s LGBT community again held their annual Pride celebrations to coincide with IDAHO. Under the slogan “different but the same”, the celebrations included a week long LGBT film festival, an international arts festival titled ‘Proud out Lout”, a workshop on...
Burundi IDAHO Report 2012
With financial support from the IDAHO Committee, the Organisation MUCO renewed its IDAHO mobilization activities in the rural areas of Burundi. It organized social activities bringing together members of sexual minorities, their friends and families, over discussions on how to...
Brasil IDAHO Report 2012
In all, 20 of Brazil’s 27 provinces held IDAHO activities in 2012. These activities included marches against homo/transphobia, rallies, seminars, public hearings at local parliaments, film screenings, and advocacy pushing for local non-discrimination legislation. Brazilian activists also joined the international...
Botswana IDAHO Report 2012
A group of about 80 activists in Botswana marched through the streets of Gaborone, interacting with the public as they went, brandishing placards bearing non-discrimination messages. This was followed by a public forum where drama and debate were used to...
Bolivia IDAHO Report 2012
Activists in Bolivia held a series of events to mark IDAHO as a symbolic date for the Bolivian LGBT movement, including a talk about human rights, sexual diversity, homophobia/transphobia and religion, the broadcasting of radio spots about the “Cures that...
Belize IDAHO Report 2012
In Belize, a country which has laws criminalizing same-sex relationships, activists launched online actions on Facebook tackling the issue of homophobia. LGBT groups also organised a media conference and reached out to various ministries to promote legislative change.
Belgium IDAHO Report 2012
The regional LGBT organization of French-speaking Belgium has been leading since 2009 a national anti homophobia campaign on IDAHO. This year, 50 000 pin badges and brochures were distributed to all 500 secondary schools of the region, and to all youth centers,...
Belarus IDAHO Report 2012
Authorities in the Belarusian capital of Minsk prevented LGBT activists from holding three separate protests to mark IDAHO 2012, citing “technical” reasons and repair work near the proposed locations as reasons for denying the protest. However, other IDAHO events did...
Austria IDAHO Report 2012
Activists in Austria marked IDAHO 2010 with the launch of a call for participation in a European online LGBT survey. In addition, the makers of the Austrian short film “Homophobia” released the film for free on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAxE…). “Homophobia” follows...
Australia IDAHO Report 2012
Rainbow flags were proudly hoisted in cities across Australia in celebration of IDAHO 2012. In Geelong, the flag was raised at the old Post Office as a symbol of tolerance and understanding in support of LGBT people. Councils in Melbourne’s...
Armenia IDAHO Report 2012
For the first time in Armenia’s history, activists held a nationwide LGBT month from April to May, with a range of events that included the 2012 IDAHO celebrations. Among those activities was the provision of trainings to local NGO representatives...
Argentina IDAHO Report 2012
In Buenos Aires, the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires approved activists’ statement of educational interest in relation to the 2012 IDAHO education campaign. The project was presented by Deputy Gabriela Alegre, author of the Act that instituted May...
Algeria IDAHO Report 2012
Tuning into this year’s IDAHO focus on education, activists in Algeria developed a series of four comic strips depicting different situations of young LGBTs at school. The situations represented stories that LGBTs could easily recognize. The use of comic strips...
Jakarta Organisations Celebrate IDAHO
Despite, and in reaction to, repeated homo/transphobic attacks by religious dogmatic groups over the past months, Human Rights and LGBT organisations in Jakarta held a series of events ranging from Parliamentary meetings to marches and cultural activities. As organisers put...
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