22-03-2021 13:45
WORKSHOP on LGBTI+ RIGHTS IN THE EU
by remote connection (via Room József Antall 4Q2)
The PETI Committee has requested the Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs to organise a Workshop on LGBTI+ rights in the EU to discuss the situation of LGBTI+ persons notably as they emerge from the petitions received by the EP, to examine the new Strategy on LGBTIQ rights recently presented by the Commission and to address the problem represented by the obstacles to the free movement of Rainbow Families through a dedicated study.
LGBTI+ persons still experience discrimination, persecution, violence in the European Union of 2021. The European Parliament has been at the forefront in calling for the protection of the fundamental rights of LGBTI+ persons and for equality regardless of sexual orientation, through a fully-fledged LGBTIQ strategy, which was finally adopted by the Commission on 11 November 2020. The strategy also deals with the obstacles rainbow families live when they move from a Member State to another Member State, which are illustrated by the petitions received by the EP. The Commission has announced legislative initiatives to ensure the free movement and mutual recognition of rainbow families across the EU.
- Agenda (PDF - 758 KB)
- STUDY on Obstacles to the free movement of rainbow families in the EU
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Background documents
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS, Union of Equality: LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025
- European Parliament resolution of 11 March 2021 on the declaration of the EU as an LGBTIQ Freedom Zone
- FRA report "A long way to go for LGBTI equality"
- LGA-Europe’s Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People covering events that occurred in Europe and Central Asia between January-December 2020
- ILGA-Europe: Rainbow Europe 2020
- TGEU report “Stuck on the swing: experiences of trans parents with freedom of movement in the EU”
- FRA Data explorer LGBTI survey