Hungary's LGBTQI Amendment an Affront to Human Rights

Hungary, Georgia and the United Kingdom have plummeted in an annual ranking of LGBTI rights in Europe. Human rights organisation ILGA, which initiated the ranking, speaks of a broad trend in which the human rights of the LGBTI community are being curtailed. The Netherlands has risen slightly on the so-called European Rainbow Map for the third year in a row. According to the report, the Netherlands is one of six countries that have introduced str…

A European Citizens' Initiative presented by LGBTQIA+ organizations calls on the European Commission to ban conversion therapies targeting LGBTQIA+ people throughout the European Union. The text of the proposal explains that these practices are interventions intended to change, repress, or suppress the sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression of LGBTQIA+ people. "Due to their discriminatory, degrading, harmful, and fraudulent na…

Today, ILGA-Europe has published the current Rainbow Map 2025 – an annual ranking that measures the progress with regard to LGBTIQ* rights in 49 European countries. Germany makes it to third place for the first time – but what does that really mean?

Poland ranked 39th out of 49 countries analyzed in this year's edition of the ILGA-Europe Rainbow Ranking, which assesses the legal protection of LGBT+ people. This result places Poland, ex aequo with Bulgaria, in penultimate place among European Union countries. Malta once again topped the ranking, followed by Belgium and Iceland. In turn, the lowest scores were recorded by Russia, Azerbaijan and Türkiye.

Flemish Minister for Equal Opportunities Caroline Gennez (Vooruit) calls on the federal government to file a complaint against Hungary with the European Court of Human Rights, because of a constitutional ban on LGBTQIA+ events. Federal Minister for Equal Opportunities Rob Beenders (Vooruit) supports the request.

The ban on attempts to repair homosexuals, malicious and unscientific practices, enters into EU legislation thanks to two amendments by Alessandro Zan (Pd, S&D). But in Italy there is still a law that bans them, while the government continues to legitimize positions that reject the self-determination of the rainbow community.