Courageous activists on all continents stand up for the rights of LGBTI people today. Make it clear that human rights are universal and invisible, that LGBTI rights are human rights.

The Hirschfeld-Eddy-Foundation supports this struggle through concrete aid and donation appeals, international and domestic events as well as asproviding information to those responsible for foreign policy, international cooperation and human rights work.

Direct Aid: We support LGBTI organizations in the Global South and Eastern Europe, organize human rights conferences, or initiate projects to increase acceptance and strengthen human rights protection of LGBTI people. The projects and events are made possible by donations and cooperations. The money that we receive from donations is transferred completely to our cooperation partners. That way, for example, projects in Nicaragua, Istanbul, and Israel abd an Iranian exile organization have been supported.

International lobby work: Information provision, awarness raising and fight against judicial persecution are the core aspect of our international work. Together with partner organisations as well as foundations and NGOs, we organise human rights conferences in East European states, such as Ukraine or Latvia. Furthermore, we support LGBTI activists in their lobby work for the decriminalization of homosexuality, such as in December 2008, in New York in the context of the UN General Assembly. 

Information and Research: In Germany, the Hirschfeld-Eddy-Foundation initiates conferences or panel discussions, presents publications on the theme of human rights, carries out important lobby work and cooperates with foundations, human rights organisations or universities. Thus, we were able to publish the German edition of the Yogyakarta Principles. Raising awareness of the human rights of the LGBT people in various fields is of special importance to us. Sexual minorities have so far not been an issue in developmental policy and cooperation. We want to change that. We work here together with party-affiliated foundations and federal departments. In addition, we bring the issue into the central media development policy.