Tags: fundamental rights agency
New FRA report highlights crucial role public authorities for LGBT equality
In a new report launched in the European Parliament today, the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) highlights that prevailing negative attitudes towards LGBT people endanger their fundamental rights and hamper efforts to counter discrimination and hate crime. The report analyses …
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Posted in: Press releases, Recent news on March 16th, 2016
New report on legal situation LGBTI people in the EU
This Monday, the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency released an updated EU-wide legal analysis: ‘Protection against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics in the European Union: Comparative legal analysis’ The report presents legal evolutions in …
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Posted in: Press releases, Recent news on December 16th, 2015
Fundamental rights intersex people not respected, EU and Council of Europe reports find
Yesterday, the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency launched a focus paper on the fundamental rights situation of intersex* people. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights also published a research paper on human rights and intersex people. Both papers share …
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Posted in: Press releases, Recent news on May 13th, 2015
EU report reveals alarming reality trans people
Tuesday, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) presented the largest comparative study on the experiences of trans people in all 28 EU Member States. The FRA calls the results “alarming”, but highlights that legal frameworks and good policies have a positive …
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Posted in: Press releases, Recent news on December 11th, 2014
EU law should forbid all bias crime, concludes Fundamental Rights Conference
The annual Fundamental Rights Conference, organised by the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), concluded that EU measures to address hate crime should be extended to cover all forms of bias, including homophobic crimes.
Tags: fundamental rights agency hate crime LGBT surveyPosted in: Press releases, Recent news on November 25th, 2013
Summary: Achieving the right to health of LGBTI people
On 6 November, the LGBT Intergroup co-hosted a high-level hearing on the challenges and obstacles lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people face in the field of health and healthcare, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS. Stigma and discrimination …
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Posted in: Intergroup documents, Recent news on November 15th, 2013
EU: One in two LGBT people discriminated against, new study finds
Today the EU Fundamental Rights Agency will publish the first-ever comparative study on the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the 27 Member States and Croatia. It finds that almost one in two (47%) LGBT people felt discriminated …
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Posted in: Press releases, Recent news on May 17th, 2013
Groundbreaking LGBT research to be published next week angers religious conservatives
Next week the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights will present the results of two years’ research into the discrimination and violence experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the EU and Croatia. The LGBT survey received over 93,000 validated …
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Posted in: Press releases, Recent news on May 8th, 2013
FRA: Registered partners should have the same property rights as spouses under EU law
The Fundamental Rights Agency has said Monday that European Commission proposals to facilitate couples’ free movement may not be in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Tags: charter of fundamental rights european commission freedom of movement fundamental rights agencyPosted in: Press releases, Recent news on June 12th, 2012
MEPs welcome new European LGBT survey
On Monday 2 April the EU Fundamental Rights Agency launched a vast survey into the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the European Union and Croatia. Members of the European Parliament have welcomed the initiative.
Tags: fundamental rights agencyPosted in: Press releases, Recent news on April 4th, 2012
2010 The European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBTI Rights