On February 28th Robert Biedroń participated in a press conference at the Lithuanian parliament. R. Biedroń is the general rapporteur on the rights of LGBT people of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). He is a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and its Committee on Equality and
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Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) recently organized a volunteer training that was attended by 32 members of the local community, 11 of those coming from towns outside of Vilnius. The training was a two-day event held at Algirdas Hotel in downtown Vilnius. The first day of the training began with team building activities that encouraged participants
LGL recently organized a volunteer training that was attended by 32 members of the local community, 11 of those coming from towns outside of Vilnius. The training was a two-day event held at Algirdas Hotel in downtown Vilnius.
On the 27th of January 2014, the Decriminalisation of Homosexuality Bill passed the Parliament of the northern part of Cyprus. The northern part of Cyprus was the last territory in Europe where homosexuality was still a crime. With the adoption of the bill, Articles 171 and 173 of the Criminal Code, foreseeing in five years’ imprisonment
In a resolution adopted yesterday, the European Parliament strongly condemned recent moves to criminalise LGBTI people in Uganda, Nigeria and India. Parliament also called on Russia to repeal its law prohibiting the propaganda of ‘non-traditional sexual relations’. Earlier this month, Nigeria’s President signed the ‘Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill’, punishing people in a same-sex relationship with
ILGA-Europe launches its 2014 election campaign “Come out for LGBTI equality, for human rights, for Europe, to vote”. On 14th of January at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, ILGA-Europe launched its campaign on the European elections which are taking place on 22-25 May 2014. The campaign will be launched by Euro parliamentarians and candidates for
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius on Friday welcomed participants of an international conference on LGBT rights and stressed the importance of a more equal society as well as patience. In his speech, the Minister said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs supports the Friday conference to review the situation sexual minority rights. “We
A new ‘anti-propaganda’ law, similar to those recently enacted in Russia, was discussed and adopted away from public scrutiny and entered into force on 12 July. Politicians specifically sought to avoid debating the bill in public. Moldova’s Contravention Code now forbids the “distribution of public information […] aimed at the propagation of prostitution, paedophilia, pornography
Setting an important legal precedent, Istanbul’s Criminal Court on Monday issued a landmark ruling against a religious Turkish newspaper for its use of anti-gay language, saying it illegally offended LGBT people. The court also stated that such language is not within the scope of freedom expression or press. The court ruled that the newspaper be prosecuted
Today the European Ombudsman ruled in favour of the European Commission, which had been criticised for hosting an exhibition portraying same-sex couples. The Ombudsman said this was fully within the Commission’s powers. In 2011, the European Commission hosted an exhibition by ILGA-Europe calling for equal rights for LGBT people and their families. The ‘Different Families, Same Love’ exhibition had previously been