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8 TH EDITION OF THE STATE-SPONSORED
HOMOPHOBIA REPORT
The State-Sponsored Homophobia Report was updated (8th ed.) and released
in Geneva on the occasion of International Day Against Homophobia and
Transphobia (May 17th) at Geneva City Hall. Representatives of various diplomatic
missions at the United Nations were on hand to witness the festivities.
After a welcome from City of Geneva’s Mayor Sandrine Salerno the report was
presented to the audience.
Sandrine Salerno, Mayor of the City of Geneva
From right to left: Renato Sabbadini; Minister Didrik
Tonseth, Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva;
Jingshu Zhu, co-author of the State-Sponsored
Homophobia Report; 2nd Secretary Valeria Rabaglia,
Permanent Mission of Argentina in Geneva.
Edited by Lucas Paoli Itaborahi
and Jingshu Zhu, it included an
introduction on consideration
of the refugee context by
Jenny Millbank, Professor of
Law, University of Technology,
Sydney and Eddie Bruce-Jones,
Lecturer in Law, Birkbeck College
Scholl of Law, University of
London, as well as an another
introductory piece on the MENA
(Middle Eastern and North
African Region) by Yahia Zaidi,
Pan-Africa ILGA Co-Chair. The
report also featured regional
introductions by ILGA Board
Members, researchers, writers
and activists.
For the first time, the report
has been released in all 6 UN
official languages, in an effort
both to increase the readership
and to make it easier to quote
from it in other reports by (inter)
governmental agencies and
NGOs.
Sebastian Rocca, ILGA
Executive Director until
July 2013, presenting
the State-Sponsored
Homophobia Report to
the audience.
ILGA ANNUAL REPORT 2013