Rogerio Sottili is the Vice Minister in the Special Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic on Human Rights in Brazil.
In this role he coordinates the ground-breaking National Plan for the Promotion of LGBT Citizenship and Human Rights “Brazil Without Homophobia”. The 1st National Conference for LGBT, convened by a government, was launched in 2008 as a result of demands by civil society and the Brazilian government’s support of LGBT people’s rights.