Guide: COVID-19 Pro bono legal resources and support

05.04.2020

As a result of COVID 19 many organisations face unexpected and complex legal questions around employment and restructuring, contractual rights and force majeure, and implications on human rights in general.

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As part of our ‘Protect, Adapt and Rally’ package, please find below an overview of leading pro bono service providers and clearing houses that are offering their services to LGBTI organisations in finding solutions to the consequences of COVID 19 at the organisational level and other areas of LGBTI rights affected by the pandemic. Please consult the list below on Pro bono legal resources for guidance and support with changed organisational matters and associated impact of COVID 19 to find best catering for your needs.

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Right now, as the war on Ukraine escalates, democracy, human rights and equality matter more than ever in Europe. In our submission to the European Commission’s annual Rule of Law report, we’ve identified key trends in the systematic attacks on the rights of LGBTI people across EU member states.

Blog

31.01.2022

How Baby Sara and her mums have pushed forward the rights of all rainbow families across the EU

When an EU country recognises a child and its same-sex parents as a family, all EU countries should recognise them as such, so to guarantee their freedom of movement. This is what the EU’s top court ruled in December. But how this case has advanced LGBTI rights in the European Union and what comes next for rainbow families?

Case Law

14.01.2022

Macaté v. Lithuania

Freedom of expression, warning labels restricting artistic expression.

Press Release

11.01.2022

Rising challenges for LGBTI organisations in Europe and Central Asia, new report finds

A survey of LGBTI organisations across Europe and Central Asia finds they face significant challenges in the face of growing anti-LGBTI forces, and the ongoing […]

Blog

23.12.2021

What has 2021 meant to the LGBTI movement in Europe? Listen to our latest podcast episode to find out this year’s highlights

As 2021 comes to an end, we have collected some of the moments, events and trends that have marked the year in the latest episode of The Frontline, ILGA-Europe’s podcast about LGBTI activism and lives in Europe and Central Asia. Read here some of the episode’s highlights and find out reasons to stay hopeful in 2022.

Case Law

14.12.2021

Judgment in Case Stolichna obshtina, rayon ‘Pancharevo’

Child, being a minor and a Union citizen, whose birth certificate was drawn up by the host Member State and designates as parents two persons […]

Press Release

14.12.2021

Top EU Court Recognises Relationship of Same-sex Parents and their Children Under EU Law

In a landmark judgement, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that a child and its same-sex parents must be recognised as […]

Guide: COVID-19 Pro bono legal resources and support

See also

Joint statement welcoming judgement on Russia’s failure to protect the privacy of personal data

Joint statement welcoming CJEU judgment to halt unlawful gender title collection

Joint statement on today’s long-awaited judgment from the European Court of Human Rights on violations of LGBTI human rights in Armenia

Lithuanian Court Declares anti-LGBTI law unconstitutional

Russia failed to respond adequately to politician’s homophobic verbal assault, European Court finds

Top European Court holds hearing on Polish refusal to recognise same-sex marriage certificate

Joint statement: EU Court of Justice strengthens trans rights by calling for the automatic recognition in birth certificates

Joint statement: EU Court of Justice Advocate General calls on Hungary to correct trans refugee’s gender marker in national registries

Joint statement on Italian Constitutional Court ruling on non-binary & trans persons’ rights

Latvia failed to protect human rights of victim of a homophobic attack, european Court finds

Trans woman should have been allowed access to hormone therapy in prison, says European Court

Joint statement in support of South African athlete Caster Semenya

EU Court of Justice Advocate General calls for automatic recognition of legal gender recognition in birth certificates

European court to hear landmark case regarding discrimination against non-binary people

Inventory of relevant SOGIESC case law and pending cases before the ECtHR and CJEU

Significant European Court judgments in two cases concerning violence against LGBTI people involving state agents

Romania failed to protect same-sex couples, European court rules

Romanian transgender man’s landmark case requesting that Romania acknowledges his UK gender recognition referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union

After Polish Case, CJEU Rules to Protect Self-employed Workers based on Sexual Orientation

LGBTI organisations welcome EU parental recognition proposal with the best interests of the child at its core

Sexual orientation is not a reason to terminate a contract with a self-employed worker, says Advocate General of the CJEU

Rainbow families have the right to move and reside freely, EU court reiterates

A.B. and K.V. v Romania

The 5 trending attacks on the fundamental rights of LGBTI people in the EU in 2021