European Parliament takes stock of LGBT rights in Western Balkans and Turkey 22nd April 2013 1410 0 0 Last week the European Parliament adopted five of its annual progress reports for candidate and potential candidate EU countries. MEPs addressed...
EU Court of Justice: Preliminary ruling on homophobic statement by Romanian football club owner 26th April 2013 1723 0 0 Yesterday the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a preliminary ruling on the responsibility of employers in the case of homophobic or...
Groundbreaking LGBT research to be published next week angers religious conservatives 8th May 2013 1356 0 0 Next week the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights will present the results of two years’ research into the discrimination and violence...
EU: One in two LGBT people discriminated against, new study finds 17th May 2013 1459 0 0 Today the EU Fundamental Rights Agency will publish the first-ever comparative study on the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
Western Balkans: European Parliament completes annual LGBT assessment 23rd May 2013 1481 0 0 This week the European Parliament adopted three new reports on the EU accession process for Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic...
Nigeria adopts harshest homophobic law in recent history 31st May 2013 1384 0 0 On Thursday 30 May, Nigeria’s parliament adopted the ‘Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill’, a law that foresees up to 14...
New EU asylum rules will better protect LGBT people 12th June 2013 1519 0 0 Today the European Parliament adopted a new version of the European Union law on asylum procedures. The text contains notable improvements for...
European Parliament condemns Russia’s federal censorship law 14th June 2013 1406 0 0 Yesterday the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the “anti-propaganda” law voted in Russia’s federal Duma...
European Parliament consents to EU-ACP partnership with reservations 17th June 2013 1367 0 0 Last week the European Parliament gave its legal consent to the updated Cotonou Agreement, a multilateral treaty between the EU and African...
