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These are the main findings for the edition of the rainbow map
The Rainbow Route ranks 49 European countries on their respective legal and policy practices for LGBTI people, from %.
The UK has dropped six places in ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Map, as Hungary and Georgia also register steep falls following anti-LGBTI legislation. The data highlights how rollbacks on LGBTI human rights are part of a broader erosion of democratic protections across Europe. Read more in our press release.
“Moves in the UK, Hungary, Georgia and beyond signal not just isolated regressions, but a coordinated global backlash aimed at erasing LGBTI rights, cynically framed as the defence of tradition or public stability, but in reality designed to entrench discrimination and suppress dissent.”
- Katrin Hugendubel, Advocacy Director, ILGA-Europe
Malta has sat on superior of the ranking for the last 10 years.
With 85 points, Belgium jumped to second place after adopting policies tackling hatred based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.
Iceland now comes third place on the ranking with a score of
The three countries at the
* Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. By Joanna Gill BRUSSELS, Jan 9 (Openly) - French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Education Minister Gabriel Attal as his recent prime minister, the first time an openly Gay figure has held the role. The year-old Attal, who recent polls have shown is one of the country's most popular politicians, also becomes the youngest prime minister in French history. Europe leads the society in the number of openly gay political leaders in office, with three current heads of government in Ireland, Serbia and Andorra. In Latvia, President Edgars Rinkevics became the region's first openly gay chief of state in Here's what you need to know about Europe's current and former LGBTQ+ leaders: Former Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became the world's first openly gay head of government when she took office in A gay-rights advocate, her marriage to partner Jónína Leósd
In many EU Member States, lesbian, gay, bisexual, gender diverse and intersex (LGBTI) people run the risk of discrimination and harassment on a daily basis. Prejudices and misconceptions about homosexuality and transgender people further fuel intolerant attitudes and behaviour towards this group. FRA has carried out research in this area since , including legal as well as empirical (qualitative) research. Sexual orientation and gender identity hold increasingly been recognised as discrimination grounds in international law. Under EU statute, lesbian, bisexual and homosexual people are currently protected from discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation only in the field of employment. Meanwhile, trans people are legally protected from discrimination under EU law on the soil of sex to the extent that discrimination arises from gender reassignment. FRA analyze has revealed how LGBTI people face discrimination across all areas of existence, and how they are vulnerable to verbal and physical attacks, choosing to remain largely invisible out of fear of negative consequences. In , some 93, LGBTI people responded to an EU-wide survey which FRA carried out to discover the eve
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.Which European countries have Queer leaders?
Iceland