Washington (January 29, 2015) – In the wake of President Obama’s commitment in the State of the Union to defend the human rights of the LGBT community, today Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) introduced bicameral legislation to affirm that LGBT human rights are a foreign policy priority for the U.S.
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EuroPride is one of Europe’s main LGBT events and this year it ill be hosted by Riga, Latvia, coinciding with the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This EuroPride marks a historic occasion as the first EuroPride to be held in a post-Soviet country on the EU’s Eastern border with Russia. This
Mayor hopes the capital’s example will lead to full marriage equality. Rome yesterday (January 28) recognized gay civil unions by approving the establishment of a civil union register for same-sex couples. The city council voted in an amendment saying that gay marriages contracted abroad are to be automatically transcribed into the newly created register. Mayor
Bill gives civil partners nearly all the rights of married couples. Lawmakers in socially conservative Chile have given final approval to gay civil unions after more than four years of legislative wrangling. The senate yesterday (January) passed the Civil Union Accord bill by a 25 to 6 vote margin with three abstentions, a week after the lower
On January 28, 2015 the District Court of Klaipėda City passed an order to dismiss a formal complaint about hateful online comments regarding a same-sex kiss picture by two students, filed by the national LGBT* rights organization LGL. As stated in the court order, a person who posts a same-sex kiss photo in a public
On the 27th of January, 2015, the Jewish Community of Lithuania in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute hosted a conference dedicated to the commemoration of the Holocaust victims. Professor Niccolò Scaffai from University of Lausanne, answered questions and read some excerpts from the work If this is a Man by Primo Levi, an Italian
A street in the city of Catania, Sicily is to be named in honour of gay codebreaker Alan Turing. The gay war hero helped to crack the Enigma machine, before being persecuted for his homosexuality later in life, and eventually driven to suicide. The city – which is the seventh largest metropolitan area in Italy,
David Cameron’s Holocaust Commission has recommended that a new National Memorial should recognise all victims of Nazi persecution, including gays. The Prime Minister established the cross-party Commission one year ago today, to explore issues including a permanent memorial to victims of Nazi persecution. The Commission’s report – released to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day – recommends the
In January 2015 the Ukrainian Parliament withdrew the draft of so-called “homosexuality anti-propaganda” law (8711/0945) from its agenda. According to information from Ukrainian partners, the law 8711/0945 was not included in the agenda of the Ukrainian Parliament for its current session. This means that Parliament will not get back to discussions about this legislative initiative.
26 January 2015 – PINK Embassy / LGBT Pro, Human Rights House in Albania and Open Mind Spectrum Albania, the organizing group of Tirana Pride, agreed today that the 2nd Tirana Pride will be held in June 11th. Meanwhile it has been agreed that on May 17th, the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia