US EditionHungary's LGBTQI Amendment an Affront to Human Rights
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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…
Print In April, demonstrators symbolically occupied Budapest's famous bridges to protest against a new anti-LGBTQ+ amendment passed by Hungary's Fidesz-led parliament in March. Their goal? To raise awareness about the restrictions on the right to assembly and the broader erosion of human rights in the country. But how did the government react to the protests? And what's the real political tactic behind Fidesz's latest move? Julia Mits (IDM) repo…
BRATISLAVA – A controversial amendment to the Hungarian Constitution has left the country’s Lgbtiq community both defiant and fearful, as rights advocacy groups have denounced. The amendment, adopted by Parliament on 14 April, includes, among other things, the prohibition and criminalization of the marches of [...] This article Orbán’s Hungary gives another axe to Lgbti rights was originally published in IPS News Agency
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.
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