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Making rainbow waves

Welcome to "Making Rainbow Waves", a podcast by ILGA World telling the stories of LGBTI human rights defenders worldwide. ILGA World – the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association - is a worldwide federation of more than 2,000 organisations from over 170 countries and territories campaigning for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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Until all intersex people are free

Making rainbow waves ·

2025/10/26

In September 2025, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations presented its first-ever report on discriminatory laws and policies, violence, and harmful practices against intersex persons.Over 190 organisations and activists — including intersex people worldwide — contributed to it, ensuring that intersex voices are now on official United Nations record. Thanks to their work, States will no longer be able to ignore the realities they describe and must begin to rectify

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The global call to #RenewIESOGI: "All human beings...

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2025/06/16

In July 2025, the UN Human Rights Council will vote to renew the mandate of the Independent Expert on Protection against Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. This is the only United Nations mechanism specifically dedicated to addressing violence and discrimination against LGBT and gender-diverse persons! Since its creation in 2016, mandate holders have extensively documented these issues; they have also sent 171 communications documenting allegations of

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“We intersex people are human, just like you”

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2024/09/17

In April 2024, something truly transformative happened at the United Nations: the Human Rights Council adopted its first-ever resolution specifically addressing discrimination, violence, and harmful practices against persons with innate variations in sex characteristics.For this episode, we sat down with four intersex human rights defenders: Crystal Hendricks (ILGA World), Obioma Chukwuike (Intersex Nigeria), Kimberly Zieselman (Outright International) and Kaisli Syrjänen (ISIO – Intersex Human

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"There is a lot more visibility and people being able...

Making rainbow waves ·

2024/04/29

In this episode, we talk with Nazima Raghubir, who shares about the Guyana Together human rights campaign and discusses the current human rights situation for LGBTQ people in Guyana. You can learn more about the campaign by following their socials @GuyanaTogetherHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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"We are lesbians and we have rights": a conversation...

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2024/03/08

What do we talk about, when we talk about alliances and solidarity between the LGBTI and the feminist movements?The words of Gulzada Serzhan, co-founder of Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative "Feminita" and guest on the latest episode of ILGA World's Making Rainbow Waves podcast, explain it very clearly: "In my opinion, hate against the LGBTIQ community and misogyny have similar features backed by a patriarchal society. Therefore, we put ourselves as a part of a feminist movement." On the occasion of

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"Human rights are our shared idea": Celebrating the...

Making rainbow waves ·

2023/12/18

In 2023, ILGA World celebrated the 10th anniversary of its United Nations programme.For this new episode of Making Rainbow Waves, ILGA World sat down with Kseniya Kirichenko, our UN programme manager, to retrace the history of how the organisation has engaged with international human rights spaces throughout its existence, navigating these global fora to uplift the voices of grassroots organisations and civil society worldwide. "The human rights idea is our shared idea", she told us. "It is

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"We are part of humanity": a conversation about the...

Making rainbow waves ·

2023/10/21

What do we talk about when we talk about trans depathologisation?Pathologisation refers to the idea that someone - just by existing, so just by being trans - is somehow intrinsically disordered. Depathologisation, then, means shifting focus from treating trans and gender-diverse identities as mental disorders to prioritising the health and well-being needs of trans people in the same way that we do all other people. For this new episode of Making Rainbow Waves, ILGA World has sat down with

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"I hope for a community centre of our own": a...

Making rainbow waves ·

2023/05/15

Engaging with the United Nations human rights system can seem daunting for activists. And yet, it can be to outstanding results - the kind of achievements that are relevant not just for one’s country, but at the global level. Enkhmaa Enkhbold, the executive director of LGBT Centre Mongolia, built her own experience in the field by engaging with numerous UN human rights mechanisms over the years - with organisations like ILGA World and others ready to provide support when necessary. In 2022,

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It gets better, and we should accept nothing less...

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2022/02/16

The 30th ILGA World Conference will take place in May 2022 under the theme: "LGBTIQ youth: future present change": hundreds of LGBTIQ human rights defenders from all over the world will gather in LA Long Beach, California, United States. The event will be hosted by the It Gets Better Project, an organization with a mission to uplift, empower, and connect LGBTQ youth around the globe. In this episode of "Making rainbow waves", we sat down with Brian Wenke, the executive director of the It Gets

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Pride is how you choose to express: a conversation...

Making rainbow waves ·

2021/06/24

On this Pride Month, ILGA World met with Julian Sanjivan, who is the co-president of InterPride - the global network of Pride organisations from around the world, as well as regional, national, and local pride networks. We came together to talk about their personal story, how the Pride movement has made it through the Covid-19 pandemic, and so much more. Here’s what they told us. Follow this link to access a transcription of the episode:

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How laws and policies impact on trans persons' lives

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2020/11/05

How do laws around the world set out how trans and gender-diverse people can change their sex/gender marker and names on official identity documents? And which laws are in place worldwide that criminalise trans identities? Released in September 2020, the Trans Legal Mapping Report details the situation in 143 UN member States, In this episode,we met with Julia Ehrt and Zhan Chiam to explore the findings of the publication, and to discuss what's next for the trans human rights movement.

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