LGBTQIA+ Equality Belgium Project #59430

Support the European LGBTI movement

by ILGA-Europe

Project Report | Mar 21, 2024
New report on LGBTI human rights across Europe

By Anna Shepherd | Partnerships Manager

ILGA-Europe’s 13th Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of LGBTI People in Europe and Central Asia reports an alarming surge in transphobic speech across Europe.

The Annual Review reports hate speech from politicians in 32 European countries over the course of last year, 19 of them member states of the EU, sparking concerns for the upcoming EU elections.

There has been a clear accumulation of hate speech against the LGBTI community from officials across Europe, much of it targeting trans people, in countries including EU member states Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden.

The report clearly shows that demonising from politicians, combined with attempts to introduce attendant legislation, is impacting suicide rates and mental health, especially for young LGBTI people, and leading to an escalation in violent protests outside schools and libraries, making young people unsafe.

This fear mongering has also directly led to a further rise in attacks on LGBTI people. Of the 54 countries reporting in the Annual Review, only six of them reported no hate crime in 2023. In the other 48 countries, much of the reported verbal and physical violence targeted trans people. Only one EU member state reported no hate crime.

The full 13th ILGA-Europe Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of LGBTI People in Europe and Central Asia is available here.

Thank you to all our supporters and donors for helping to ensure that the work of ILGA-Europe to monitor, defend and advance LGBTI rights and equality continues.

Links:

https://www.ilga-europe.org/report/annual-review-2024/

Attachments:

2024_full_annual_review.pdf (PDF)

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Dec 20, 2023
Year in Review - the story of LGBTI rights 2023

By Anna | Partnerships Manager

Nov 20, 2023
ILGA-Europe Activity Report 2023

By Anna Shepherd | Partnerships Manager

What a year 2023 has been for ILGA-Europe! A year of growth and consolidation, of forwardlooking thinking and planning, of transition and renewal. We paid particular attention to thinking about what social acceptance, inclusion, equal societies and economies look like, and how we can together push change in these areas over the next five years.

The ILGA-Europe team have carried out a hugely impressive amount of work throughout the year. We launched several new programmes and regranting schemes, which is further increasing our flexibility to support LGBTI organisations and expanding our connection with the movements in different countries and sub-regions. We have invested time in designing new innovative ways in which we can facilitate learning and sharing of experiences amongst activists. We have built on our deep connections with institutions, politicians and policy makers, both in Brussels and nationally across the region, to push for new and better European legislation, to advocate for standard-setting by our regional institutions, and to actively support the translation of laws into practice by public authorities.

Here are some impact figures from our 2023 Activity Report:

ILGA-Europe supported 81 LGBTI groups with funding and learning.
We issued 75 new grants to LGBTI groups in 25 countries, totalling €1,613,072.
We organised 35 online learning sessions to build the skills and capacity of LGBTI activists across the region.
We direclty supported the advocacy efforts of LGBTI activists in 29 countries.
We visited 14 countries to meet with frontline LGBTI activists and other key stakeholders.
We published 9 briefing reports in our 'Intersections' series, diving into data and zooming into the lived experiences of specific groups within the LGBTI community.

Read the full 2023 Activity Report for more detail about ILGA-Europe's work with and for the LGBTI movement across Europe & Central Asia.

Attachments:

ILGA-Europe Activity Report 2023 (PDF)

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