The APF held a three-day workshop with representatives from nine national human rights institutions to discuss the Yogyakarta Principles. Their goals were to build understanding of the principles, consider their regional relevance, and exchange information on protecting LGBT rights. IGLHRC spoke about LGBT issues in the region. The workshop resulted in the institutions becoming the first to adopt recommendations from the Yogyakarta Principles, affirming protection of LGBT rights as part of their mandates.

1. The APF convenes a three-day workshop on the Yogyakarta Principles. Representatives
from nine national human rights institutions (NHRIs) participated—Australia, Indonesia,
Jordan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Palestine, South Korea, and Thailand. Their goal
build understanding of the Yogyakarta Principles, consider the regional political and social
contexts for implementation, consider the relevance of the Principles to the work of the
human rights institutions in the region, and exchange information on how NHRIs were
promoting and protecting the rights of LGBT people.
IGLHRC was invited to talk about the conditions facing LGBT people in the region, and
I had the opportunity to meet and listen to international human rights experts like Vitit
Muntabhorn, Sonia Correa, Michael Flaherty, Chris Sidoti and John Fisher – activists who
were all intimately involved with the birth of the Yogyakarta Principles.
The workshop resulted in a landmark adoption by the participating human rights institutions
of recommendations from the Yogyakarta Principles – the first national human rights
institutions in the world to do so. At the conclusion of this workshop, the nine institutions
issued a consensus statement that affirmed that the mandate of NHRIs extends to those
who suffer human rights violations based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation
or gender identity. They proposed that APF member institutions should integrate into
their work the promotion and protection of the human rights of people of diverse sexual
orientation and gender identity, and should promote respect for the Yogyakarta Principles
by state and non-state actors.

2. The APF convenes a three-day workshop on the Yogyakarta Principles. Representatives
from nine national human rights institutions (NHRIs) participated—Australia, Indonesia,
Jordan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Palestine, South Korea, and Thailand. Their goal
build understanding of the Yogyakarta Principles, consider the regional political and social
contexts for implementation, consider the relevance of the Principles to the work of the
human rights institutions in the region, and exchange information on how NHRIs were
promoting and protecting the rights of LGBT people.
IGLHRC was invited to talk about the conditions facing LGBT people in the region, and
I had the opportunity to meet and listen to international human rights experts like Vitit
Muntabhorn, Sonia Correa, Michael Flaherty, Chris Sidoti and John Fisher – activists who
were all intimately involved with the birth of the Yogyakarta Principles.
The workshop resulted in a landmark adoption by the participating human rights institutions
of recommendations from the Yogyakarta Principles – the first national human rights
institutions in the world to do so. At the conclusion of this workshop, the nine institutions
issued a consensus statement that affirmed that the mandate of NHRIs extends to those
who suffer human rights violations based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation
or gender identity. They proposed that APF member institutions should integrate into
their work the promotion and protection of the human rights of people of diverse sexual
orientation and gender identity, and should promote respect for the Yogyakarta Principles
by state and non-state actors.

3. The APF convenes a three-day workshop on the Yogyakarta Principles. Representatives
from nine national human rights institutions (NHRIs) participated—Australia, Indonesia,
Jordan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Palestine, South Korea, and Thailand. Their goal
build understanding of the Yogyakarta Principles, consider the regional political and social
contexts for implementation, consider the relevance of the Principles to the work of the
human rights institutions in the region, and exchange information on how NHRIs were
promoting and protecting the rights of LGBT people.
IGLHRC was invited to talk about the conditions facing LGBT people in the region, and
I had the opportunity to meet and listen to international human rights experts like Vitit
Muntabhorn, Sonia Correa, Michael Flaherty, Chris Sidoti and John Fisher – activists who
were all intimately involved with the birth of the Yogyakarta Principles.
The workshop resulted in a landmark adoption by the participating human rights institutions
of recommendations from the Yogyakarta Principles – the first national human rights
institutions in the world to do so. At the conclusion of this workshop, the nine institutions
issued a consensus statement that affirmed that the mandate of NHRIs extends to those
who suffer human rights violations based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation
or gender identity. They proposed that APF member institutions should integrate into
their work the promotion and protection of the human rights of people of diverse sexual
orientation and gender identity, and should promote respect for the Yogyakarta Principles
by state and non-state actors.