News
Kaos GL on IDAHOBIT: End bans, hate attacks and discrimination!
17/05/2018 - Turkey
Kaos GL, released a statement on IDAHOBIT 2018 regarding ongoing LGBTI+ event bans in Ankara: Kaos GL urges all those ...
Macedonian Parliament forms an inter-party group for LGBTI rights
08/05/2018 - Macedonia
In February 2018, Macedonian Members of Parliament from several political parties formed an inter-party working group on LGBTI rights. For ...
Serbian Minister calls for banning of children’s book on rainbow families
03/05/2018 - Serbia
Nenad Popović, Minister without portfolio of Serbia, in charge of innovations and technological developments, called for “the urgent stop of ...
Novi Sad gets its first LGBTI community centre
17/04/2018 - Serbia
by: Filip Kocevski edit: Amarildo Fecanji On Saturday, April 14, Group COME OUT opened its office and community space in Novi Sad, the ...
REZULTATI ISTRAŽIVANJA: LGBTIQ ZAJEDNICA U OČIMA PREDSJEDNIČKIH KANDIDATA – POLITIČKE KALKULACIJE ILI ISKRENA PODRŠKA?
13/04/2018 - Montenegro
Veliko nam je zadovoljstvo da sa vama podijelimo rezultate nacionalnog istraživanja pod nazivom „Crnogorska LGBTIQ zajednica u očima predsjedničkih kandidata/kinja“, u ...
Open lectures on LGBTI rights in Albania’s high schools face homophobic backlash
30/03/2018 - Albania
By Amarildo Fecanji Tirana, 30 March 2018 - A series of open lectures on homophobic and transphobic bullying held by local ...
Did you call for 8 March? Then, listen to me!
26/02/2018 - Turkey
by Janset Kalan Ankara, 25 February 2018 - I wrote this following a post of a friend in Facebook. My friend ...
Appeal to hold execution of “LGBTI events ban in Turkey” rejected by Administrative Court
23/02/2018 - Turkey
The separate appeals of Kaos GL and Pink Life to halt the execution of Ankara Governorship’s indefinite ban on LGBTI ...
Gayten – LGBT presents Drafts of Protocols on police treatment of transsexual and transgender people
08/02/2018 - Serbia
On February 6th, at an event in the House of Human Rights and Democracy in Belgrade, Gayten LGBT presented drafts ...
Country Reports analyse LGBTI realities in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia and Serbia
08/02/2018 - Albania
Four comprehensive reports have been released recently by UNDP on the living realities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex ...
Ali Erol leading Turkish LGBTI activist detained
02/02/2018 - Turkey
3 February 2018 - Ali Erol, leading LGBTI activist, and one of the founders of Turkish association KAOS GL was ...
JOB VACANCIES AT ERA: Advocacy Manager and Communication Officer APPLY NOW
02/02/2018 - All Countries
Open call for staff members Deadline 20 February 23:59 CET ERA - LGBTI Equal Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey, is ...
New opportunities for advocating LGBTI rights in Macedonia
30/01/2018 - Macedonia
In December in Skopje the National LGBTI Conference “Rainbow Dialogues – Needs, Challenges and Priorities” was held. The conference served to convene ...
#Wevotetoo – Da se zna! to monitor local elections in Belgrade
29/01/2018 - Serbia
Serbia based organization Da se zna! will monitor local elections in Belgrade! As last year during presidential elections, the Association will send ...
ŠKUC – Magnus and ŠKUC – LL condemn the ban on organizing LGBTI events in the Turkish Ankara Province
04/12/2017 - Slovenia
On 18 November 2017, Pink Life and Kaos GL – two Ankara-based organizations – informed the international community about a ...
Ask Turkey to reverse its ban of LGBTI events
30/11/2017 - Turkey
Oppression of LGBTI rights took a new turn this November in Turkey. Following President Erdogan’s statement on 9 November 2017 ...
Governorship of Ankara bans all activities of LGBTI organizations on “public morality” grounds
19/11/2017 - Turkey
On Saturday evening, the Governorship of Ankara decided to ban “from November 2018, onwards, activities of LGBTT-LGBTI organizations following an ...
Prishtina marks its first official LGBTI Pride
10/10/2017 - Kosovo
Even though this was not the first public outdoor event of the country, today Kosovo marked its first Pride Parade, ...
Montenegro: progress on situation of Roma and fighting hate crimes, but further steps needed to protect LGBT and boost social inclusion
09/10/2017 - Montenegro
Strasbourg, 19.09.2017 - A new 2012-2017 report on Montenegro published in September 2017, by the Council of Europe’s Anti-racism Commission commends ...
Serbian LGBTI organisations give mixed response to election of Ana Brnabić as Prime Minister
16/06/2017 - Serbia
by Amarildo Fecanji Belgrade 16 June 2017 - The appointment of 41-year-old Ana Brnabić as Prime Minister of Serbia has garnered ...
Gay couple in Croatia denied request for joint adoption
06/06/2017 - Croatia
8 June 2017 - Two gay men, in their mid-thirties, filed a suit against the Republic of Croatia, due to ...
No more forced sterilization for trans people in Europe, but trans pathologisation remains
06/06/2017 - All Countries
This April, the European Court of Human Rights found that sterilization requirement in legal gender recognition violates human rights. This ...
ECRI recommends Serbia to address violence against LGBT persons
05/06/2017 - Serbia
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) , a human rights body of the Council of Europe published its ...
International experts call on protection of trans and gender diverse children and adolescents
29/05/2017 - All Countries
In light of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on 17 May, a group of United Nations and ...
Association of transgender, intersex and gender variant persons “Spectra” is founded in Montenegro
03/04/2017 - Montenegro
3 April 2017 - A new association has emerged in Montenegro focusing on trans, intersex and gender variant (TIGV) persons. ...
Macedonian LGBTI organizations demand legal protection based on SOGI
28/03/2017 - Macedonia
A working conference organized by H.E.R.A – Health Education and Research Association and the Coalition for Sexual and Health Rights ...
European Network of Parents of LGBTI+ Persons established in Malta
08/03/2017 - All Countries
On 21-22 February parent groups from 15 European countries gathered in Malta to set up the volunteer organization “European Network ...
Survey on socio-economic dimensions of LGBTI exclusion in the Western Balkans kicks off. LGBTI people are invited to fill it in.
14/02/2017 - All Countries
Starting from February 1st lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer, people living in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, ...
