Thai professor, Vitit Muntarbhorn, has been appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as the first independent expert to investigate anti-LGBT violence and discrimination.
United States, Canada and the European Union have protested the blocking of 11 gay and transgender organizations from attending a high-level meeting on ending AIDs by a group of 51 Muslim states
The results of a massive survey by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on being LGBTI in China have been released in Beijing to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT).