On 27-30 October 2011, ILGA-Europe holds its 15^th Annual Conference in Turin. The title of this conference is “Human Rights and "Traditional Values": clash or dialogue?”

On 12 October 2011, the European Commission issued its annual Enlargement Strategy and Progress Reports on EU accession and pre-accession countries. The 2011 Enlargement Package includes Progress Reports on Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244/1999), Turkey and Iceland. In addition, the Commission published its Opinion on Serbia's application for membership of the EU which contains a more detailed Analytical Report on the progress made by Serbia towards European integration.

ILGA-Europe is proud to present two new publications within our work on combatting hate crimes and violence against LGBTI people.

The Belgrade Pride 2011 march, which was planned to take place on Sunday 2 October, has been banned by the Serbian National Security Council according the news website B92.

We are very happy to announce a winner of our competition to win a trip to Turin (Italy) where at the end of October the 15th anniversary Annual Conference of ILGA-Europe will take place – it is Colin de la Motte from Berlin!