Graeme Reid

As the new @IESOGI just appointed by @UN_HRC, I invite you to watch/repost my first video message to the #HumanRights movement. Assuming this role & responsibility is the honor of a lifetime! Follow me here to receive my latest news, reports, & global protection calls 🇺🇳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️#SOGI

#Education is a fundamental right & powerful equalizer, yet many #LGBT learners face bullying, exclusion & discriminatory laws, UN expert @IESOGI tells #UNGA ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

📚 #Education is a fundamental right & powerful equalizer, yet many #LGBT learners face bullying, exclusion & discriminatory laws. 🌈 Inclusive education empowers everyone to reach their full potential. 🗺️ For more see my new report to #GA80, available at: ohchr.org/en/documents/t…

👉Why is the #IESOGI mandate important? From tackling laws that criminalize ⚖️to amplifying unheard voices📢 and encouraging States to take action 🤝for everyone, everywhere, the mandate works to turn human rights principles into concrete protections.

🙏I join over 40 UN experts calling for an end to gender-based discrimination and reaffirming the guidance of international bodies such as the CEDAW Committee. 👉Read our joint statement here:ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

A short animation that explains my work as the UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, the #IESOGI.

🎉Here’s a look back at the #IESOGI’s year of action, advocacy, and impact. 👉From country visits👉 to landmark reports and 👉civil society engagement, together we pushed for a world 🌏 where no one faces violence or discrimination ❤️because of who they are or whom they love.

🎉Here’s a look back at the #IESOGI’s year of action, advocacy, and impact. 👉From country visits👉 to landmark reports and 👉civil society engagement, together we pushed for a world 🌏 where no one faces violence or discrimination ❤️because of who they are or whom they love.

🧠How often do we get to reflect back? I will soon be sharing with you the #IESOGI mandate's impact this last year. Stay tuned!

🔎 Read the friendly summary of my report here: ohchr.org/en/special-pro…

🌍 Protecting their rights means ensuring safe pathways, access to services, and full inclusion in humanitarian responses.

🌍Yet too often, they face new risks and barriers throughout their displacement journey.

☝️#UN Experts express deep concerns about attempts to reassert rigid, binary conceptions of sex that minimise the social, historical and cultural factors that shape gender. 👉Read our joint statement here:ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

📢 Constitutional reform must strengthen, not weaken, protections guaranteed under international human rights law. 🔗 Read our full statement: spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/…

📑 UN reports sometimes don’t make it to everyone’s reading list. That’s why I’ve prepared friendly summaries of my latest reports. 👉 Evidence is impactful when understood, shared, and acted on. Read the summaries here: ohchr.org/en/special-pro…

📑 Around the world, many #LGBT persons are forced to flee due to violence, discrimination, and exclusion.

🌏Freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly and association are fundamental to full participation in society. 🗺️ Read the friendly summary of my report here: ohchr.org/sites/default/…

🇺🇳I join over 40 UN experts calling for an end to gender-based discrimination and reaffirming the guidance of international bodies such as the CEDAW Committee. 🌐Read our joint statement here:ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

🎤🌈Throwback to my interview with @GCN following the Out and Proud panel hosted by @icclrights.

👉One thing is certain: community-led solutions are showing the way forward. 📢No one should be forced to choose between safety and being themselves.

Honoured to deliver the closing remarks at tomorrow’s @UN_Women launch of the new Report on Measuring GBV: Data collection and evidence on violence based on #SOGIESC. 🗓️ 3 September 2025 ⏰ 9:00 AM EST 📍 ZOOM (Register here: unwomen.zoom.us/webinar/regist…)