What can you do to contribute to this campaign?
The proposed directive adopted by the European Commission on 2 July 2008 was sent to the European Council which needs to approve it if the directive is to become EU legislation. This means that the proposed text is now up for negotiations by national governments.
This process is likely to be a challenging on since a directive related to non-discrimination (i.e. based on Article 13 of the EU Treaty) needs to be adopted unanimously, i.e. by ALL Member States.
Therefore, your help is absolutely necessary to ensure that ALL member states support a new EU directive.
Here is what you can do to help. You will also find some campaigning material developed by ILGA-Europe that can help you in your advocacy.
PLEASE keep the ILGA-Europe office ( evelyne@ilga-europe.or or juris@ilga-europe.org) informed about your activities and developments in your country in relation to the directive. It will help us to be coordinated in our campaign.
