This special issue on the impacts of COVID-19 on LGBTQ+ health and well-being reports findings from nine articles with varied study designs, including data from multiple countries and all segments of LGBTQ+ communities.
Introducing the European Human Rights Ambassadors
TMM Update Trans Day of Remembrance 2020
Protect Intersex Persons' Rights, 34 States Tell UN
Poland: Writers, actors and directors call for end to homophobia in Poland in open letter
LGBT asylum seekers' claims routinely rejected in Europe and UK
EU: COVID-19 underlines importance of strong fundamental rights protection
Growing intolerance and attacks on people’s fundamental rights continue to erode the considerable progress achieved over the years, finds FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2020. As Europe begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic we see a worsening of existing inequalities and threats to societal cohesion.
The Global Divide on Homosexuality Persists
Over the Rainbow? The Road to LGBTI Inclusion
UN: Report on conversion therapy
The term “therapy”, derived from the Greek, denotes “healing”. However, practices of “conversion therapy” are the very opposite: they are deeply harmful interventions that rely on the medically false idea that LGBT and other gender diverse persons are sick, inflicting severe pain and suffering, and resulting in long-lasting psychological and physical damage.