Newsroom – Page 21 – The European Parliament's LGBTI Intergroup

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On Tuesday 28 January, the LGBT Intergroup will host an event on homophobic and transphobic bullying together with the Youth Intergoup and the...

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In a resolution adopted yesterday, the European Parliament strongly condemned recent moves to criminalise LGBTI people in Uganda, Nigeria and...

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This week the European Parliament adopted two of its annual progress reports for candidate and potential candidate EU countries. In the reports on...

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On Tuesday 17 December, the Senate of Nigeria adopted the ‘Same-sex marriage (prohibition) bill’, criminalising displays of affection...

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This morning, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) adopted an own initiative report on an...

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Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, has announced that she...

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Last Thursday the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that an employee entering a same-sex civil partnership should receive the...

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Yesterday, the European Parliament voted its annual report on human rights in the world. The report reviews the situation of human rights...

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The European Parliament has just adopted its seven-year financial programme to support democracy and human rights in the world. In the period...

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India’s Supreme Court today ruled to re-criminalise same-sex intercourse. This major human rights setback means citizens in the 1.2 billion...

@LGBTIintergroup RT @bvroozendaal: This is horrible news from Tirana: the peaceful and successful dyke march in which we participated last Friday has led on…
@LGBTIintergroup RT @TerryReintke: In the Polish Parliament a bill to criminalise sexual education is currently being debated: Providing information about c…
@LGBTIintergroup RT @TerryReintke: What a great honour to stand up for intersex rights in the European Parliament. Thanks to @OIIEurope for all your suppor…
@LGBTIintergroup RT @McNhlapo: 👏🏽👏🏽South Africa Opens 1st Transgender 🌈Healthcare Facility hope it’s using an intersectional lens & including persons w/d…
@LGBTIintergroup RT @magdadropek: On the occasion of Polish #IndependenceDay we distributed rainbow cotillions on the street in #Kraków. A lot of support fr…