Celebrating 10 years of the Yogyakarta Principles: What have we learnt and where to now? Acknowledgements This report documents the discussions and recommendations made during the conference ‘Celebrating 10 years of the Yogyakarta Principles: What have we learnt and where to now?’ held from 25-26 April 2017 at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. This conference was part of a comprehensive program of activities, jointly developed and funded by the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to support national human rights institutions (NHRIs) in the region to work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities and better advocate for their human rights. The participants who attended the conference came from 25 countries and territories, representing NHRIs, LGBTI civil society groups and community based organizations, government, research bodies and international LGBTI advocacy groups. The organisers would like to gratefully acknowledge all participants and resource persons for their valuable participation and viewpoints. APF and UNDP would also like to thank the representatives from the 18 NHRIs who contributed to the success of the conference and who are dedicated to fulfilling their mandate to promote and protect the rights of all people. A list of organisations and biographies of speakers is included in Appendix 2 and 3 of this report. Civil society participants made up almost half of the participants and many of them had attended one of the three APF/UNDP sub-regional blended learning workshops with NHRIs (that had been taken place by the time the April conference was held) in South Asia (Colombo, December 2016) and South East Asia (Manila, February 2017). For these sub-regional workshops, civil society participants were self-nominated through an open call for applications. Additional, civil society participants for the regional conference were identified through request for nominations which was distributed through regional community networks and global advocacy groups. The gender and SOGISC of participants also was considered in the selection of all participants. It was essential to ensure that there was a balance of ‘self-reported’ lesbian, gay and other men who have sex with men, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons among participants as well as strong allies active in support of the human rights of LGBTI people. Finally, geography was also taken into consideration. As this was a global conference held in the region, efforts were made to balance participation from each subregion, including South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia and the Pacific. The organisers of the conference were Pip Dargan, Chris Sidoti, Fasoha Aishath, and Thuy Doan Smith, Jack Byrne, from APF, and Nadia Rasheed, Edmund Settle, Nicholas Booth, Jensen Byrne, Zainab Javid Patel, Sirinapha Jittimanee, Jay Pongruengphant, Kathryn Johnson, Jawying Lyster, Minyuan Chen and Katri Kivioja from UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub. James Illiffe from APF and Ian Mungall, Jensen Byrne and Đỗ Anh Thư from UNDP provided outstanding communication support for the conference. The meeting partners would like to recognise Fasoha Aishath, Thuy Doan-Smith and Pranee Threekul for their excellent logistical and administrative support. A special thanks to Ahmed Shahid, APF consultant, who authored the report This conference was supported by APF and by UNDP through the Being LGBTI in Asia programme. APF is a network of 24 National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in the Asia Pacific region. A fundamental goal of APF is to strengthen its member’s capacity to fulfil their mandates as independent bodies with powers to investigate and report on human rights violations, to stand up for those in need of protection and to hold their governments to account. The Being LGBTI in Asia programme aims to reduce marginalisation and exclusion of LGBTI people. Initiated in 2012, the regional programme addresses inequality, violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status, and promotes universal access to health and social services. It is supported by the Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok and USAID. 4