About the organization

Legally, the NGO “ALLIANCE.GLOBAL” was registered in October 2002. Since then, the organization has conducted over 100 projects and research among LGBTIQ+. Today, the organization’s main activities are focused on providing priority humanitarian and financial assistance during war, operating shelters for LGBTIQ+, providing public health services for MSM and LGBTIQ+, developing community centers and other “safe spaces” for LGBTIQ+, protecting human rights, and conducting national advocacy for LGBTIQ+ access to rights and health.

Educational, informational, entertainment, and thematic events in community centers are aimed at developing the individual potential of each MSM/LGBTQ+ representative. The physical health and psychological well-being of all MSM/LGBTQ+ are key principles of “ALLIANCE.GLOBAL”.

Our advocacy work is focused on the health and rights of MSM/LGBTIQ+ people at the national and local levels, mobilizing and strengthening LGBTIQ+ leadership and organizational capacity, which has been implemented since January 2018 within the framework of the National LGBTIQ Consortium. The activities of this Consortium are carried out by four public organizations that work on the basis of meaningful participation of LGBTIQ+ people. The main priority advocacy tasks of the Consortium to date are the introduction of registered civil partnerships (RCPs) in Ukraine, amendments to the Criminal Code to prevent hate crimes, in particular in the context of SOGI, allocation of budget funding for MSM/LGBTIQ+ health care, and development of regional leadership.

As part of our organization’s human rights advocacy, we have a national network of LGBTIQ+ paralegals and work with other communities, such as injecting drug users, PLHIV, former prisoners, people with tuberculosis, etc. Specially trained paralegals provide primary legal assistance in cases of violations of rights based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), HIV status, age, etc., engage in media monitoring of the attitude of decision-makers towards LGBTIQ+ people, as well as responding to hate speech. Paralegal networks cooperate with a number of human rights organizations, such as the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, KyivPride, etc., and also conduct information and educational activities for MSM/LGBTQ+ and others.

Since 2016, the organization’s creative team has launched the “GETTEST” information campaign about free HIV and STI testing for MSM, which has become nationwide since 2018.

Since 2018, the organization’s creative team has launched the 2nd information campaign about the nationwide innovative HIV prevention program – PrEP in Ukraine.

In 2019, the organization launched the Shelter project for MSM/LGBTQ+ people in Kyiv. The project is focused on people who are in difficult life situations or suffer from persecution and discrimination due to SOGI (sexual orientation and/or gender identity).

Since the beginning of large-scale military operations in Ukraine, caused by the Russian attack on February 24, our organization has been providing priority humanitarian assistance to LGBTQ+ IDPs (internally displaced persons) and their families who found themselves in a difficult military situation. This assistance consists of individual financial support (including for moving from active combat zones), provision of temporary shelter on the basis of our organization or other public organizations, as well as humanitarian assistance with food, hygiene kits, necessary medicines, etc. In addition to the Kyiv shelter, which we restored in early 2022, our organization opened new shelters in Dnipro and Lviv in 2022 for LGBTIQ+ people and their families.