LGBTQI Interparliamentary Session
Thursday 29th June from 16:00 to 18:00
Senado de España
The Madrid Summit 2017 and the Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute are proud to host the first global LGBTQI Interparliamentary Plenary Session. The Plenary Session will bring together elected representatives of all levels, ages, genders, races and political families from around the world who identify as LGBTQI or are dedicated allies. The goal of the event is to explore a way to collaborate among out elected officials around the world to advance towards equality for LGBTQI people, using their influential positions within democratic institutions.
The Plenary Session comes in the wake of the Victory Institute’s largest LGBTQI Leaders Conference and will directly follow the Madrid Summit 2017. The Victory Institute is a US based organisation that is dedicated to elevating openly LGBTQI leaders at all levels of government both within the US and around the world. The Victory Institute’s LGBTQI Leaders Conference 2016 held in Washington DC following the US presidential elections was the largest in its 30 year history.
As part of World Pride Madrid 2017, the Madrid Summit will bring together academics, politicians, non-governmental organisations and activists between 26th - 28th June to discuss human rights issues in fields such as Culture, Politics, Education, and Health. The conclusions of the summit will be formally detailed in the Madrid Declaration which will look to provide a framework for the future development of LGBTQI specific Human Rights and which will be signed by all participants, institutions and organisations.
The Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute is an NGO based in the USA that works to increase the number of LGBTQI people who participate in the democratic process as a means of further advancing towards equality. Amongst other initiatices, the Victory Institute hosts an annual LGBTQ Leaders Conference which brings together more than 500 LGBTQI international elected or appointed officials. The organisation works with local groups in more than eight countries.
The LGBTQI Interparliamentary Plenary Session will open with a formal reading of the Madrid Summit Declaration, which will be drafted after the formal conclusions of the mentioned conference. Then, elected and appointed representatives in attendance will have the chance to contribute to the discussion. Drawing on their experience in office, they will highlight specific challenges in their regions and seek to define how they can best work together to use their positions of influence to contribute towards achieving the aims of the Madrid Summit Declaration.
Participants
- Alex Greenwich
- Member of the New South Wales Assembly. Australia
- Alyn Smith
- Member of the European Parliament. UK
- Ana Helena Chacón Echevarría
- Segunda Vicepresidenta de la República de Costa Rica. Costa Rica
- Angeles Alvarez
- Diputada del Congreso. Spain
- Antonio Hurtado Zurera
- Diputado del Congreso. Spain
- Apsara Reddy
- Portavoz Politico. India
- Audrey Tang
- Minister. Taiwan
- Bosco Labrado
- Concejal del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Spain
- Carla Antonelli
- Diputada Asamblea de Madrid. Spain
- Daniele Viotti
- Member of the European Parliament. Italy
- Diane Marie Rodríguez
- Asambleísta Nacional. Ecuador
- Eduardo Petrini
- Diputado de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Argentina
- Helga Stevens
- Member of the European Parliament. Belgium
- Idoia Villanueva Ruiz
- Senadora. Spain
- Isabel García Sánchez
- Diputada Provincial Valencia. Spain
- Javier Maroto
- Diputado del Congreso. Spain
- Julie Ward
- Member of the European Parliament. UK
- Kendra Stefani Jordan Bonilla
- Candidata a Diputada para el Parlamento Hondureño. Honduras
- Kevin Peel
- Member of the Committee of the Regions. UK
- Lol Kin Castañeda Badillo
- Diputada Constituyente. Mexico
- Maximiliano Ferraro
- Diputado de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Argentina
- Paulon Esteban
- Subsecretario de Políticas de Diversidad Sexual. Argentina
- Pilar Lima
- Senadora. Spain
- Purificación Causapie
- Concejala del Ayuntamiento de Madrid.Spain
- Randy Boissonnault
- Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre and Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on LGBTQ2 Issues. Canada
- Sedef Kakmak
- Municipal Assembly Member. Turkey
- Shane Cohn
- Alderman. United States
- Tamara Adrián
- Diputada de la Asamblea Nacional. Venezuela
- Tomas Marcos
- Senador. Spain
- Ulrike Lunacek
- Member of the European Parliament. Austria
- Vanessa Angustia Gómez
- Senadora.Spain
- Xavier Bettel
- Prime Minister. Luxembourg
- Zakhele Mbhele
- Member of Parliament. South Africa
