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Peter Tatchell has been tirelessly campaigning for LGBTI human rights around the world for five decades. He staged the first gay rights protest in a communist country in East Germany in 1973, twice attempted a citizen’s arrest of the president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe (in 1999 and 2001) and was beaten by neo-Nazis at Moscow Pride parade in 2007.

In 1990 Tatchell was a founding member of the LGBT direct action organisation OutRage! He started campaigning for same-sex marriage in the UK in 1992. In 2011 his friends and allies founded the Peter Tatchell Foundation, of which he is director, to support UK and worldwide human rights campaigns.

Join the veteran activist and other campaigners and experts to discuss what you can do to support LGBTI human rights activists inany further tightening of Britain's benefits system must also be met with greater support for those in work.

They also want to ensure that the economic recovery is enjoyed by those on low salaries as well as those at the top in an attempt to blunt Labour's charge that the Coalition is presiding over a recovery for the few.

Timetable

Policy advocates are pushing for a change in the minimum wage to be included in Prime Minister David Cameron's speech to the Tory party conference at the end of September, or failing that in the Autumn Statement in November.

But a Downing Street source told Newsnight that a policy change "remains a long way off" and that "it may be more likely as a contender for the Tories' next manifesto".

Insiders say that