Advocating and including LGBTQI+ populations
What do our campaigns team do?
At ReportOUT, we deliver bold, evidence-led advocacy and campaigning that turns human rights research into real-world change for LGBTQI+ people globally.
Through our advocacy and campaign work, we expose abuse, challenge discrimination, and confront the systems that enable violence and exclusion, from state policies to everyday social norms. Our campaigns centre lived experience, bring hidden and ignored violations into public and political view, and apply sustained pressure on decision-makers at national, regional, and international levels.
By combining rigorous research, survivor-centred storytelling, strategic partnerships, and direct engagement with institutions such as the UN and EU, we do not just raise awareness, we shift narratives, hold power to account, and fight for lasting structural change so no one is left behind.
Explore some of our work below.
#SaferToBeMe Summits
At ReportOUT, we convene powerful spaces that bring people together to confront today’s most urgent human rights threats.
Through landmark moments such as our #SaferToBeMe Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Summits, we connect activists, policymakers, researchers, funders, and community leaders to expose and dismantle the playbooks used by populist and authoritarian leaders, from scapegoating LGBTQI+ communities to weaponising culture wars and rolling back rights.
Our convenings turn evidence and lived experience into collective strategy, strengthening movements, shaping policy, and ensuring that safety, dignity, and equality are actively defended, not quietly eroded.
We train the next generation of LGBTQI+ advocates
At ReportOUT, our Global Campaigns Team is committed to building the next generation of LGBTQI+ advocates and activists worldwide.
We design and deliver practical, high-impact training that equips emerging campaigners with the tools to understand power, challenge injustice, and drive change, from grassroots organising to engagement with global institutions.
Grounded in lived experience and real campaigns, our training doesn’t just inform, it builds confidence, leadership, and collective power, ensuring LGBTQI+ movements are skilled, resilient, and ready to defend rights in increasingly hostile global contexts.
Mobilising our RORR team
ReportOUT’s RORR Team (Rights-Oriented Research and Reporting) sits at the frontline of global response. When world events escalate, from crackdowns and conflicts to policy rollbacks targeting LGBTQI+ communities, the team rapidly produces public statements, press releases, and evidence-based briefings that cut through noise and misinformation.
They mobilise support by translating complex developments into clear calls to action, equipping media, partners, and allies with credible analysis grounded in lived experience.
By linking real-time reporting with ethical research, the RORR Team ensures ReportOUT can respond fast, speak with authority, and rally collective action when it matters most.
We create powerful global Declarations
ReportOUT uses powerful declarations as a strategic tool to transform advocacy into collective action. Declarations like the I Exist, Too Declaration and the Newcastle-Gateshead Declaration are more than statements, they are movement-anchoring commitments that bring communities, allies, institutions, and leaders together behind clear demands for rights, recognition, and justice.
Co-created with activists and impacted people, these declarations crystallise shared values, articulate bold visions for change, and serve as rallying points in campaigns, policy spaces, and public discourse.
By anchoring campaigning around these unifying texts, ReportOUT amplifies voices that are too often marginalised and pushes for accountability, inclusion, and tangible progress on human rights locally, nationally, and globally.
We drive change on the world stage
Our global campaigns team drives ReportOUT’s mission on the world stage. We amplify our research and evidence into global advocacy, bringing the realities faced by LGBTQI+ populations into the halls of the United Nations, the EU, and key international networks.
Through strategic engagement, research dissemination, and partnership with allied organisations, we ensure our insights inform global discussions, influence policy, and push for meaningful change where rights are most at risk.
From submitting statements to global forums to strengthening collective advocacy with partners like kaleidoscope Trust's Global LGBTI+ Rights Commission, The Commonwealth Equality Network, UK Alliance for Global Equality, IGLYO, ILGA World and the Equal Rights Coalition, our team turns data and lived experience into real impact.
Engagement with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Our Global Campaigns Team takes ReportOUT’s evidence, like the OUT in Mongolia research mapping the real lives and development needs of LGBTQI+ populations, into global SDG review mechanisms, including inputs to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) and Voluntary National Reviews.
By connecting research with SDG reporting and advocacy spaces, we challenge states to uphold their commitments to leave no one behind, spotlight the discrimination that undermines Sustainable Development Goals, and ensure that the rights and experiences of LGBTQI+ populations shape global development agendas.
Leading UK advocacy on the global stage
As Chair of UKAGE, ReportOUT provides strategic leadership across the UK’s global LGBTQI+ rights movement. UKAGE is a national network of UK-based civil society organisations working on international development, humanitarian response, and human rights, with a shared commitment to advancing global LGBTQI+ equality.
In our current role as Chair, we convene members, shape collective priorities, and represent the sector to government, funders, and international institutions, strengthening coordination, amplifying evidence and lived experience, and ensuring UK advocacy is credible, united, and influential on the global stage.
Our full circle model of impact
ReportOUT supports LGBTQI+ migrants through sipport drop-in's, community engagement, training, storytelling platforms, and advocacy opportunities that amplify their voices and lived experiences. In turn, the insights, challenges, and resilience shared by LGBTQI+ migrants directly inform our research priorities and evidence base.
This creates a full-circle model of impact: we support individuals, their experiences strengthen our research, and that research drives more informed advocacy and education, ensuring migrant voices remain central to shaping policy, protection, and global LGBTQI+ human rights responses