Category: Europe – LGBTQ Rights
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.
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.
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.
This is a critical time for the EU Commission to adopt a comprehensive LGBTI strategy
Europe is at a dangerous crossroads and that’s why this is a critical time for the Commission to adopt a comprehensive LGBTI strategy over the next five years, says ILGA-Europe, in advance of the Finnish Presidency conference on advancing LGBTI equality in the EU.
Statement on anti-LGBTI violence & hate speech in Poland
We were appalled to see that the participants of the Equality March – that took place for the first time in the Polish city of Bialystok on 20 July – became victims of LGBTI-phobic hate speech and physical violence exhibited by far-right groups and football ultra-fans.
Russia fined for blocking LGBTQ+ organisations
The European Court of Human Rights has fined Russia. The reason for this was that the country blocked three LGBTQ + organisations when trying to register as legal entities.