Karsay, ‘Protecting LGBTQI rights in Europe’, 2018
- Category: Reports
- Source: NGOs
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Intersex, Refugee/Asylum, Migration, Human Rights, LGBT+
- Place: Europe
- Year: 2018
- File: coe-submission-18-tgeu-ie-oii_0
- URL: https://www.ilga-europe.org/sites/default/files/Attachments/coe-submission-18-tgeu-ie-oii_0.pdf
Dodo Karsay, ‘Protecting LGBTQI rights in Europe – Submission to the second review of the Council of Europe Recommendation on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity (CM/Rec(2010)5)’, ILGA-Europe, Transgender Europe and OII Europe (endorsed by EL*C, IGLYO, and NELFA), October 2018
Abstract
Between March and July 2018, ILGA-Europe and Transgender Europe (TGEU) supported 11 LGBTQI and 5 trans organisations in preparing country reports on 16 member states (Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden). This report offers a summary of the findings of these 16 reports, and detailed recommendations to the Council of Europe and member states.
Since the Recommendation was adopted in 2010, there have been significant gains in the Council of Europe region that secured legal rights for LGBTQI people. However, the work on LGBTQI equality is nowhere near done. Worrisome backlash, a rhetoric of hate, populism, nationalism, and state-led persecution in a number of member states remind us that efforts to combat violence and discrimination on grounds of SOGIESC must be reaffirmed, continued, and strengthened.
This assessment will help guide the Council’s work in supporting member states regarding implementation. The submitting organisations welcome that during this second review, the Council extended the invitation for civil society organisations and national human rights structures (NHRSs) to also submit reports.