Newsroom – Page 40 – The European Parliament's LGBTIQ+ Intergroup

2nd July 2013 1386 0 0

Today marks five years since the European Commission proposed a law banning discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, but also age...

28th June 2013 1876 0 0

Members of the European Parliament are worried Greek police have started to systematically harass transgender women in Athens and Thessaloniki...

25th June 2013 1329 0 0

On Saturday, Skopje’s LGBT Centre was attacked as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people were watching a movie inside for the annual...

24th June 2013 1636 0 0

Today the EU’s 27 foreign affairs ministers adopted a ground-breaking global policy. The LGBTI Guidelines instruct EU diplomats around the...

17th June 2013 1372 0 0

Last week the European Parliament gave its legal consent to the updated Cotonou Agreement, a multilateral treaty between the EU and African...

14th June 2013 1413 0 0

Yesterday the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the “anti-propaganda” law voted in Russia’s federal Duma...

12th June 2013 1525 0 0

Today the European Parliament adopted a new version of the European Union law on asylum procedures. The text contains notable improvements for...

11th June 2013 1724 0 0

Last week the LGBT Intergroup met to discuss the worrying trend of “anti-propaganda laws” in Eastern Europe, mainly Russia and...

6th June 2013 1472 0 0

Earlier this week the European Parliament’s delegation to Georgia travelled to the capital Tbilisi, where an angry mob had violently...

31st May 2013 1392 0 0

On Thursday 30 May, Nigeria’s parliament adopted the ‘Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill’, a law that foresees up to 14...