Making rainbow waves

Episodes

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   Until all intersex people are free

   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 —...

   Oct 26, 2025

   30m
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   The global call to #RenewIESOGI: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights - no exceptions"

   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...

   Jun 16, 2025

   9m
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   “We intersex people are human, just like you”

   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...

   Sep 17, 2024

   42m
4. "There is a lot more visibility and people being able to be themselves": the Guyana Together Campaign

   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 @GuyanaTogether Hosted on Ausha. See...

   Apr 29, 2024

   22m
5. "We are lesbians and we have rights": a conversation with Gulzada Serzhan (Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative "Feminita")

   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...

   Mar 8, 2024

   31m
6. "Human rights are our shared idea": Celebrating the 10th anniversary of ILGA World's United Nations programme

   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…

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   Dec 18, 2023

   33m
7. "We are part of humanity": a conversation about the importance of trans depathologisation

   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...

   Oct 21, 2023

   45m
8. "I hope for a community centre of our own": a conversation with Enkhmaa Enkhbold (LGBT Centre Mongolia)

   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...

   May 15, 2023

   26m
9. It gets better, and we should accept nothing less than that: a conversation with Brian Wenke (It Gets Better Project)

   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...

   Feb 16, 2022

   22m
10. Pride is how you choose to express: a conversation with Julian Sanjivan (InterPride)

    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…

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    Jun 24, 2021

    22m
11. How laws and policies impact on trans persons' lives

    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...

    Nov 5, 2020

    20m