Tag: Albania
Gay Albanian asylum seeker’s right to stay in UK ‘beggars belief’, fumes UKIP councillor
A jailed Albanian asylum seeker is set to be allowed to remain in the UK because he is gay – even though his home country’s government has introduced laws protecting homosexuals from persecution.
European Parliament asks Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania to step up efforts on LGBTI rights
Last week, the European Parliament adopted its annual progress reports on Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina. MEPs underlined the need to do more to further equality of LGBTI people.
Albania is Europe’s Most Homophobic Country, Survey Says
Data from a new survey released to Balkan Insight by the Open Society Foundation, OSFA, reveal that the vast majority of Albanians are conservative and disapprove of the gay and lesbian lifestyle.
New EU accession reports: LGBT rights in South-Eastern Europe, Turkey and Iceland
The European Commission’s annual reports on accession countries were published yesterday, and include important information on the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in those 9 countries. Both positive and negative developments are noted.
LGBT rights need to be respected – the European Commission tells the potential EU member states
On 14 October 2009, the European Commission published its 2009 Progress Reports on the countries which applied for the EU membership – Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo.