Issues & themes
This section contains information on ILGA-Europe's current advocacy and lobbying work. If you work or are involved in a project in one of these areas or you know of an organisation or useful resource relevant to these issues, please let us know.
Hate crime
In this section you can read about how ILGA-Europe define hate crime and violence and you can find ressources and links to relevant websites.
Families
ILGA-Europe works towards full recognition and equality of the diversity of families and family relations.
Freedom of assembly
The right to freedom of assembly is an important right for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people since, throughout the world, the community has a tradition of organising Pride marches.
Transgender
ILGA-Europe defines itself as an LGBT organisation and has always strived to incorporate trans issues into its lobbying activities.
EU enlargement
As part of the accession process to the EU, candidate countries are required to meet the Copenhagen Criteria, namely to preserve democratic governance and human rights, a functioning market economy, and to assume the obligations of EU membership. In addition, the countries are required to transpose the EU legislation into national laws and, more importantly, to implement and enforce them through the appropriate administrative and judicial structures.
Asylum in Europe
For LGBT people facing persecution
The European Union's external relations
ILGA-Europe is following the European Union's external relations in terms of hightlighting the importance of LGBT equality.
ILGA-Europe focus on the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine and Belarus.
Employment
The introduction in 2000 of the EU Directive prohibiting discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation represented an unexpected an much welcomed advance in the progress toward real equality for LGB people.
Beyond Europe
The situation for LGBT people and their rights is very different around the world. If in some European countries same-sex partners can marry and sexual orientation discrimination is prohibited by law, in some countries throughout the world LGBT people are subjected to discrimination and in the worst case - death penalty.
Policy papers
This section contains a broad selection of ILGA-Europe's policy papers.
Litigation in the European Courts
Since 2000, an important part of ILGA-Europe's work has been to provide information about developments in international and comparative human rights law related to sexual orientation to the Council of Europe's European Court of Human Rights, by seeking the permission of the Court to submit written comments on these developments as a third-party intervener in selected cases that could establish a principle applying to all Council of Europe countries.
