Newsroom – Page 49 – The European Parliament's LGBTIQ+ Intergroup

How are LGBT rights covered by EU laws and policies today? What progress can we achieve by the end of the current EU mandate in 2014? These...

The Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg is about to adopt a regional law that will ban the ‘propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism...

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On Monday the Parliament of Nigeria continued examining a draft law to outlaw celebrating same-sex marriage in the West African republic. Members...

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Today the European Parliament formally adopted a new set of asylum rules for the European Union. The binding rules now include gender identity as...

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Twice this week, the European Parliament repeated it wants to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation across the EU. The Parliament...

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Last Thursday, police in the Turkish-occupied northern part of Cyprus arrested three men in their private home. After five days already spent...

The Serbian LGBT pride march Parada Ponosa, due to take place on Sunday in the capital, was banned today by the National Security Council. The...

In a resolution adopted yesterday, the European Parliament has called on the World Health Organization to stop considering transgender people as...

Today the European Parliament joined the United Nations’ call for safeguarding the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)...

The European Commission recently affirmed that EU law does not warrant widespread bans on blood donations from gay and bisexual men in several EU...