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The Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE) is a coalition of organizations committed to leveraging advocacy to accelerate LGBTI equality in the workplace and broader communities. PGLE was announced in 2019 and includes leading multinational companies. It aims to operationalize UN Standards of Conduct on LGBTI discrimination, support business leaders in promoting inclusion, and share best practices. PGLE works to promote equality and social and economic inclusion for LGBTI people through business influence.

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Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality

(PGLE)

This project is part of the World Economic Forum’s Shaping the Future of the New
Economy and Society Platform

Accelerating LGBTI Equality through the Power of Business Leadership

The Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE) is a coalition of organizations

committed to leveraging their individual and collective advocacy to accelerate

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LGBTI equality and inclusion in the workplace and in the broader communities in
which they operate. The Partnership is supported by the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and is operated in collaboration with
the Forum.

The Challenge: Uneven Progress in LGBTI Equality

Fifty years after the Stonewall riots in New York City and the birth of the gay
liberation movement, discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
intersex people continues to affect millions of people worldwide every day. Despite
recent landmark rulings advancing the protection of LGBTI rights, there remain at
least 69 countries where homosexuality is criminalized, very few countries legally
recognize the identity of trans people and only a handful protect the rights of
intersex people. Looking at the workplace, only 77 countries have employment non-
discrimination laws that protect the rights of LGBTI workers. Abuse, discrimination
and persecution based on sexual orientation and gender identity not only violates
universal basic human rights, it also adversely impacts the long-term economic
prospects of individuals, businesses and countries. The estimated global cost of
LGBTI discrimination is USD100 billion per year.

The Objective: Accelerating Equality and Social and Economic Inclusion for

LGBTI People

PGLE leverages the power of business to promote a culture of respect and equality
and take wider responsibility not just for the impact they have on their employees
lives but also on the broader communities in which they operate.

PGLE partners work together to:

• Operationalize the five United Nations Standards of Conduct for Business

Tackling Discrimination Against LGBTI People by providing tools and resources
for companies to advance and implement LGBTI inclusion globally (see here)

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• Support committed business leaders through the World Economic Forum in

accelerating LGBTI workplace inclusion and promoting human rights for all

• Share best practices and benchmarks to assist companies in meeting their

commitments and responsibilities to global LGBTI equality

The History of the Partnership

The Partnership was announced at the Forum’s Annual Meeting on January 22,
2019. The founding members are leading multinational companies, notably
Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, Cisco, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Edelman, EY,
Mastercard, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, PwC, Salesforce, Scotiabank
and The Coca-Cola Company.

The United Nations Standards of Conduct for Business Tackling Discrimination

Against Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and Intersex (LGBTI) People were issued by the
former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, on
September 26, 2017 in New York City:

“The original idea for developing these Standards came from a panel discussion I
was involved in at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos in 2016. It
was a turning point in a long-overdue conversation among prominent business
leaders and activists about what practical measures companies can and should take
to tackle LGBTI discrimination - beyond the kind of internal diversity and inclusion
policies already in place in large corporations, vital though these are.”

A Holistic and Integrated Approach to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social

Justice

The initiative originates from the World Economic Forum’s New Economy and
Society Platform, which is focused on building prosperous, inclusive and just

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economies and societies. In addition to its work on economic growth, revival and
transformation, work, wages and job creation, and education, skills and learning, the
Platform takes an integrated and holistic approach to diversity, equity, inclusion and
social justice, and aims to tackle exclusion, bias and discrimination related to race,
gender, ability, sexual orientation and all other forms of human diversity. It produces
data, standards and insights, such as the Global Gender Gap Report and
the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 4.0 Toolkit, and drives or supports action
initiatives, such as the Community of Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officers, Partnering
for Racial Justice in Business, The Valuable 500 – Closing the Disability Inclusion
Gap, Hardwiring Gender Parity in the Future of Work, Closing the Gender Gap
Country Accelerators, or the Global Future Council on Equity and Social Justice.