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25 Jan

Watch a series of short campaign videos created by LGBTI activists

Watch this series of short campaign videos created by LGBTI activists on 29 January.
19 Jan

LGBTI rights groups welcome judgement finding Romania in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights because of a lack of proper legal framework for legal gender recognition

Romania has been found to be in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights because its authorities present transgender people with an impossible dilemma.
14 Jan

The European Court of Human Rights finds Croatian response to violent homophobic attack fosters impunity for hate crime

A judgement issued today by the European Court of Human Rights finds that the response of Croatian authorities to a hate crime against a lesbian woman was “particularly destructive of fundamental human rights”.
13 Jan

Call for Contributions: Violence and discrimination against LBTI women in sport submission to Council of Europe

We are are looking for inputs to a short submission on the specific needs and struggles of LBTI women in sports.
12 Jan

Poland: All charges against LGBTI rights defenders charged for peaceful activism must be dropped, say Human Rights NGOs

After a first postponement in November, the trial against Elżbieta, Anna and Joanna will take place on January 13.
15 Dec

Joint statement: Dark day for LGBTI community in Hungary as homophobic discriminatory bill and constitutional amendments are passed

Reacting to the Hungarian parliament’s decision to adopt a law that will strip non-married couples of the right to adoption and two constitutional amendments which further restrict the rights of LGBTQ people, leading human rights organisations have come together to condemn the decision.
10 Dec

Turkish court postpones trial of 19 Pride attendees, infringing their right to fair judicial process

Today in Turkey, at a hearing against 19 human rights defenders facing charges for “participating in an unlawful assembly” and “failing to disperse despite being warned”, the courts have decided to postpone the trial until 30 April 2021. The accused, 18 students and one academic, were arrested at a peaceful LGBTI Pride march at Turkey’s Middle East Technical University (METU) on 10 May 2019. If found guilty, they could face up to three years in prison.
07 Dec

Turkey: 19 LGBTI Pride marchers must be acquitted in forthcoming trial

Turkey must uphold its domestic and international commitments, and dismiss all charges against 19 human rights defenders, prosecuted for their participation in a peaceful Pride march at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara in May 2019, says Europe’s largest LGBTI rights umbrella organisation, ILGA-Europe.
07 Dec

Joint statement: The only just outcome is the acquittal of the METU Pride human rights defenders

The only just outcome is their wholesale acquittal at their next hearing on 10 December.
18 Nov

ILGA-Europe welcome a landmark judgment by the European Court of Human Rights concerning the deportation of a gay man to The Gambia

Yesterday, in the case of B. and C. v Switzerland, for the first time the European Court of Human Rights found that deportation of the applicant, a gay man, would give rise to a violation of Article 3.

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Welcome to ILGA-Europe

- working towards equality and human rights

for lesbian, gay, bisexual,

trans and intersex people

in Europe and Central Asia

ILGA-Europe team is looking for a consultant

to create the content design and

wireframe for new ILGA-Europe website.

Episode 3:

2020: The EU and LGBTI Equality in an Extraordinary Year

We rank 49 countries in Europe on

their legal situation for LGBTI people.

This is ILGA-Europe’s plan to

support our movement through this crisis.

Our advocacy work

Our work supporting the movement

Rainbow Europe

This website has been produced with the financial support of the Rights Equality and Citizenship (REC) programme 2014-2020 of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of ILGA-Europe and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Commission.

Our advocacy
work

Rainbow
Europe