Category: Europe – LGBTQ Rights
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Annual Review of the situation of LGBTI people paints a challenging picture
Annual Review of the situation of LGBTI people paints a picture at odds with a widespread notion that in Europe the work is done
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ILGA-Europe welcomes a landmark European Court of Human Rights judgment on online hate speech
Today, the European Court of Human Rights found Lithuania’s failure to investigate online hateful comments against a gay couple to violate their rights to private and family life, as well as being discriminatory on the ground of sexual orientation.
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First European Parliament resolution on LGBTI rights of the 9th legislature
On 18 December 2019, the European Parliament adopted its first text dedicated to LGBTI rights: a resolution on public discrimination and hate speech against LGBTI people.
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MEPs write to Croatian Presidency about EU accession blockage for North Macedonia and Albania
Impact on LGBTI rights of EU’s blockage of accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania.
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Germany’s Cabinet Approves Ban on «Conversion Therapy»
On Wednesday, December 18, the Cabinet of Germany – the country’s chief executive body consisting of Chancellor Angela Merkel and the cabinet of ministers – approved a draft bill banning advertising and offering of «conversion therapy» practices to change, suppress, or divert one’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
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In homophobic Poland, big handouts and gay-bashing win votes
Poland has a president and a prime minister. But Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the nationalist Law and Justice (pis) party, is its true ruler.