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The Conference aimed to raise the international community's awareness of LGBT rights issues. It was held immediately prior to the Outgames themselves and attended by more than 1500 delegates from across the world, making it the largest LGBT rights conference ever held. A number of international experts took part including distinguished jurists, academics, church leaders and human rights activists. The delegates unanimously approved the Declaration. Among the keynote speakers to the Conference were:

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The Conference aimed to raise the international community's awareness of LGBT rights issues. It was held immediately prior to the Outgames themselves and attended by more than 1500 delegates from across the world, making it the largest LGBT rights conference ever held. A number of international experts took part including distinguished jurists, academics, church leaders and human rights activists. The delegates unanimously approved the Declaration. Among the keynote speakers to the Conference were: * Louise Arbour - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights * Gene Robinson - Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire in the United States of America * Claire L'Heureux-Dubé - Former justice on the Supreme Court of Canada * Mark Tewksbury - Canadian swimmer and 1992 Summer Olympics gold medalist * Irshad Manji - Canadian author, journalist, and activist * Georgina Beyer - New Zealand politician, the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament * Waheed Alli - Asian businessman and United Kingdom life peer * Martina Navratilova - Former World No. 1 tennis player * Gérald Tremblay - Mayor of Montreal The Declaration aims to address UN failings in consistently applying its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A number of fundamental freedoms, including the right to life, are violated in a number of member countries where homosexuality is criminalized. Homosexual acts are punishable by death in nine jurisdictions: Afghanistan, Chechen Republic, Iran, Nigeria, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen. They remain illegal in 72 countries, and are in many cases punishable by imprisonment or corporal punishment.