Tags: LGBT survey
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
2010 The European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBTI Rights