About ILGA

Founded in 1978, it now has more than 600 member organisations. Every continent and over 90 countries are represented. ILGA member groups range from small collectives to national groups and entire cities.ILGA is to this day the only international non-profit and non-governmental community-based federation focused on presenting discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity/expression as a global issue.

The Aims and Objectives of ILGA are:

(1) To work for the equality of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people and for the liberation from all forms of discrimination;

(2) To promote the universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the elimination of all forms of discrimination and also including the realization of the specific provisions of the following international human-rights treaties:

a. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

b. The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

c. The International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination

d. The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women

e. The Convention on the Rights of the Child