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Yogyakarta Principles:

These principles address a broad range of human rights standards and their application to issues of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Yogyakarta Activist Guide:

This guide allows those working in the area of sexual orientation and gender identity to determine how other activists have used the Yogyakarta Principles to further their work.
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GAYa NUSANTARA
GAYa NUSANTARA is an LGBTiQ community-based organization that works on issues of human rights, diverse sexualities, and sexual health and well-being. With a vision of the establishment of Indonesia where human rights are respected and people can live in freedom and equality, which enriched by diversity of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB)
The Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program was established as one of the programs of the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB) in 2000. The program aims to empower LGBT in the country and migrant communities from Burma in Thailand. The LGBT program conducts regular LGBT rights awareness trainings and integrates LGBT rights in mainstream human rights program. Additionally, the LGBT program organizes the Annual International Day against Homophobia as one of the campaign and public awareness event. The LGBT program also produces a quarterly newsletter and "Colors Rainbow" online journal.

Lesbian Activism Project (LeAP!), Inc. – Philippines
Lesbian Activism Project (LeAP!), Inc. – Philippines is an organization that promotes the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons (LGBT) in the Philippines by mainstreaming LGBT issues and advocating for the promotion of equal rights for all regardless of one’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

Julian C. H. Lee
Lecturer in International Studies in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University. He is also the author of Policing Sexuality: Sex, Society and the State.

The LGBT Centre in Mongolia
The LGBT Centre in Ulaanbaatar is Mongolia's first and only LGBT human rights organisation, registered in 2009 after a three-year battle with state authorities. In a country fraught with hatred towards, and violence against, sexuality minorities, the LGBT Centre is working to build a better and safer society for Mongolia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community. The mission of the LGBT Centre is to instill the democratic and civic value of the non-discriminatory upholding, protection and promotion of those human rights guaranteed by the Constitution of Mongolia, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international conventions; to uphold, protect and promote the human rights of sexual minorities; and to promote the correct understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity within Mongolian society.

Queer Comrades
Queer Comrades is China’s only independent long-running LGBT webcast. Our mission is to document LGBT culture in order to raise awareness on LGBT matters. We aim to inform both the LGBT and non-LGBT members of Chinese society in a relaxed and unrestrained way, sending out empowering images of LGBT life.

Payana
The goal of PAYANA is to see a world where sexuality minorities are free from stigma and discrimination, are treated with equality and have the opportunity to develop their individual capacities. PAYANA envisages towards strengthening community capacities (individual and organization), enhancing healthy living and bringing about equity and social justice.

Rainbow Rights Project (R-Rights)
Rainbow Rights Project (R-Rights), Inc. (Philippines) conducts in-depth legal and policy studies, and LGBT-focused legal rights and sexuality trainings in Metro Manila, and Baguio, Cebu, Davao, and Cagayan de Oro cities, working with allies to ensure that the law is not used as an instrument of oppression and discrimination.

Women Coalition of HKSAR
Women Coalition of HKSAR (WCHK) advocates for social change and queer rights in Hong Kong, and works with LGBT and sex worker groups in Hong Kong. It is a group of activist lesbian, queer women and transgender with 1500 members. It works closely with queer groups in China and Taiwan, and is the main organizer of Hong Kong Pride parades.

Youth Interfaith Forum on Sexuality (YIFOS)
A forum consists of interfaith young people. It established in a meeting at Buddhism School of Syailendra, Kopeng Salatiga on March 7th 2010 as a medium to build discourse and action related to faith and sexuality through critical dialogues, reflections, contesting the religious scriptures due to human sexuality, and also involvement in conducting certain actions or initiatives with other communities and individuals to respond both issues.