17/05/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“There is an urgent need to act to guarantee equal rights, freedom and justice for all,” stressed Béatrice Fresko-Rolfo (Monaco, ALDE), PACE General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI people, on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (17 May). “Despite significant...
18/03/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE’s Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination today reaffirmed its support for the protection of the fundamental rights to freedom of expression and assembly for LGBTI people across member States. “These are fundamental human rights possessed by every person, which they should be able to...
30/11/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The PACE General Rapporteur on human rights defenders and whistle-blowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), and PACE General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI people, Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), have condemned today’s decision of the Russian Supreme Court to outlaw the...
20/11/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
"20 November is a day to honour the memory of transgender victims of hatred. They are discriminated against and persecuted around the world, victims of harassment, physical and psychological violence and hate crimes," stated Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), General Rapporteur of the Assembly on...
25/10/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Parliamentary Assembly’s General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI people, in a statement on the eve of Intersex Awareness Day (26 October 2023), has called for an end to surgical or hormonal procedures which cause serious physical harm to intersex persons. "These procedures are regularly...
04/09/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“On the occasion of Belgrade Pride week, 4-9 September 2023, and of the anniversary of Belgrade EuroPride 2022, I take this opportunity to remind the Serbian authorities that as a State party to the European Convention on Human Rights, Serbia has committed itself to protecting individual rights...
31/05/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“I am deeply concerned by new reports that LGBTI people and activists defending their rights in Azerbaijan have again been targeted by police officers,” said Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the rights of LGBTI persons...
18/11/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“In the past year, hatred, violence and suicide have tragically cut short the lives of hundreds of trans people across the globe,” said the Assembly’s General rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI people, Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), on the occasion of the Trans Day of Remembrance, 20 November...
25/10/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Intersex people experience discrimination in all fields of life, shaped by prejudice, ignorance, inadequate legislation and violations of their physical integrity and bodily autonomy,” said Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), the Parliamentary Assembly’s General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI...
30/08/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“This weekend’s announcement by the President of Serbia that EuroPride, due to be held in Belgrade in September, may be postponed or cancelled, is a worrying step backwards for both equality and democracy,” declared Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI...
16/05/2022 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
On the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (17 May 2022) the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, meeting in Stockholm on 12 May 2022, adopted the following statement: “Over recent years, significant progress has been made...