A GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS

Dane Lewis, CariFLAGS Civil society organisations (CSOs) play a crucial role in providing essential services, advocacy and support to LGBTI+ communities, especially in regions where discrimination, stigma, and legal challenges persist. However, insecure and shrinking...

Contributed by: Yvee Oduor For Yvee Oduor, health justice is more than just access to healthcare—it’s about the recognition, dignity and inclusion of gender and sexual minorities in systems that have long marginalised and excluded them. As a gender non-conforming...

Contributed by: Joleen Mataele As the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) approaches, I feel an immense sense of responsibility as the incoming Chairperson of The Commonwealth Equality Network (TCEN). This is not just another conference—it is a rare and...

By Abdool Ridwan (Ryan) Firaas Ah Seek, President, Collectif Arc-en-Ciel This article from one of The Commonwealth Equality Network's members, Collectif Arc-en-Ciel, first appeared on the Royal Commonwealth Society's Commonwealth Youth and Gender Equality Network...

The Commonwealth Equality Network (TCEN) strongly condemns the passage of the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill by the parliament of Ghana. This Bill, which imposes severe penalties including imprisonment for identifying as LGBTI+, forming or funding...

Alistair Stewart, Head of The Commonwealth Equality Network Secretariat From Monday 29 January to Thursday 1 February the Management Committee of the Commonwealth Equality Network convened in London, England for their annual Advocacy Week. This was the first Advocacy...

Tebeio Tamton is the Co-Founder of Boutokaan Inaomataia ao Mauriia Binabinaine Association (BIMBA), an LGBT+ advocacy and activism civil society organisation that is a member of The Commonwealth Equality Network. BIMBA works to end violence and discrimination...

Decision of the Supreme Court is an historic moment in the fight for LGBTI+ equality in the Commonwealth The Commonwealth Equality Network (TCEN) welcomes the decision of Mauritius’ Supreme Court, ruling that a law criminalising same-sex sexual activity between men is...

It is undeniable that religion and LGBTI+ rights have what can only be described as a ‘difficult relationship’. Across the Commonwealth, leaders from many different mainstream religions have argued that their faith justifies discrimination, stigma and even violence...