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Campaign: Freedom of Movement Ilga Newsletter 3.2002 13.08.2002 12:03 Uhr Seite 1 europe news Vol. 2, issue 3, August 2002 ilga letter www.ilga-europe.org Campaign:Campaign: FreedomFreedom ofof MovementMovement Illustration: Christian Högl Ilga Newsletter 3.2002 13.08.2002 12:03 Uhr Seite 2 europe news ilga letter Editorial This issue of the ILGA-Europe Newsletter con- tains a number of articles updating our read- ers on the developments in a series of our campaigns. The free movement of EU citizens debate The European Region of the remains a high priority, and we urge all our International Lesbian and Gay Association members to get involved – see pages 4-5 for details. Avenue de Tervueren/ Bank account # 001-3523388-36 Tervurenlaan 94 Fortis Bank The Convention on the Future of Europe is at B-1040 Brussels avenue de Tervueren 124 a critical stage in its consultation with civil Phone: +32 2 732 54 88 B-1150 Brussels society. ILGA-Europe’s submission was pre- Fax: +32 2 732 51 64 sented to the Convention at the end of June [email protected] IBAN BE46 0013 5233 8836 (page 6). www.ilga-europe.org BIC (SWIFT): GEBA BEBB36A In the campaign for recognition of LGBT refugees (page 3) we are calling on member Table of contents organisations to put pressure on national gov- ernments to complement the work at Euro- 3 Campaign for recognition of LGBT refugees pean level. 4 New developments in the campaign on free movement 5 On-line petition launched Sharing best practices and increasing knowl- 6 ILGA-Europe launches campaign on the future of Europe edge and understanding are vital features of our work. The TAIEX seminar (read more on 7 Implementing employment directives in candidate countries pages 7-9) held in Brussels in July showed the 9 Social exclusion: An issue for LGBT people benefits of bringing together LGBT activists 11 Increased pressure on Hungary, Bulgaria and Cyprus and government representatives from the can- 12 Urgency resolution on Egypt didate countries. 13 Sexual and reproductive health The forthcoming ILGA-Europe annual confer- 13 New protection against workplace discrimination ence in Lisbon will be another opportunity to 14 AGE – European Older People’s Platform meet and exchange views and experiences. 15 Homosexuality in Russia: Current legal trends The conference will take place from 23 to 27 17 Marriage, partnerships and parenting in the 21st century October. Read more on page 24 and at: www.ilga-europe.org/conference. 19 LGBT anti-discrimination legislation and campaigning 20 News Clips This issue also features a special report on cur- Strasbourg: Landmark ruling rent developments in Russia and a couple of Turkey: Campaign against stigmatisation conference reports and news items. Enjoy the Sweden: Parliament okay adoption Croatia: Successfull first Gay Pride reading and the rest of the summer! Austria: Article 209 repealed ILGA-Europe: Recent board activities THE EDITORIAL TEAM The ILGA-Europe Newsletter Ottavio Marzocchi, Stig-Åke Petersson, This Newsletter is is the quarterly Newsletter Nigel Warner published with the of ILGA-Europe Design & Layout: Christian Högl support of the (www.creativbox.at) European Commis- Volume 2, issue 3, August 2002 sion – The Euro- Printer: Sofadi, Brussels pean Union against Editors: Mette Vadstrup (MV), Kurt Next issue: November 2002 discrimination. The information con- Krickler (KK), Ailsa Spindler (AS) Deadline: 27 October 2002 tained in this publication does not neces- sarily reflect the position or opinion of Contributors: Nicolas Alekseyev, Mark © ILGA-Europe. Reproduction permitted, the European Commission. It is not liable Bell, Catherine Daurele, Ali Erol, Stefano provided that appropriate reference is for any use that may be made of this Fabeni, Aleks Gajsek, James Knox, made to the source. information. 2 Ilga Newsletter 3.2002 13.08.2002 12:03 Uhr Seite 3 news europe letter ilga Urgent action needed at national level Campaign for recognition of LGBT refugees In the May Newsletter we The EU national co-ordination order to bring home to govern- announced the launch of an network has received guidelines ments the suffering faced by ILGA-Europe campaign to try to for lobbying national govern- LGBT refugees who are unable to secure EU-wide recognition of ments in support of our propos- be reunited with their family. LGBT refugees. The campaign is als; we have held meetings with The Danish Presidency is keen to a response to a draft directive, officials at the European Com- agree the substance of the direc- whose purpose is to achieve a mission, and with the Danish EU tive during its six-month term common definition of refugee Presidency in Copenhagen; and (i. e. by the end of December status.1 It has three principal the rapporteur for the European 2002). The Council of Ministers objectives: Parliament, Jean Lambert of the is currently scheduled to com- ❚ To ensure that persecution on It is absolutely essential that member organisations the grounds of sexual orientation conduct a thorough and effective campaign to per- is recognised in the directive ❚ To work for a specific reference suade national governments to support our proposals to persecution on the grounds of gender identity Greens (UK), has confirmed that plete its work on the directive on ❚ To work for the extension of she will table our amendments in 28 November 2002. So action is amnesty international recently the definition of “family mem- the Parliament. urgent. published a report about torture ber”,so that there is full recogni- and ill-treatment based on tion of LGBT family members in Through the meetings with the As noted above, the main lobby- sexual identity the directive. Presidency and the Commission, ing at national level is being car- three things have become clear: ried out by the member organi- For more detailed information, sations involved in the EU co- see the May Newsletter (p. 6) and It is absolutely essential that ordination network. If members place in September, with the member organisations conduct a who are not involved with this Committee debate on 12 Sep- thorough and effective campaign co-ordination network wish to tember, and the debate in the full to persuade national govern- get involved, they should contact Parliament on 23 September. ments to support our proposals Mette Vadstrup, mette@ilga- ILGA-Europe will be lobbying on the inclusion of sexual orien- europe.org. MEPs intensively in the run up tation and gender identity in the to these votes. draft directive. At least one gov- The debate in the European Par- ernment, Italy, is likely to be hos- liament is now scheduled to take NIGEL WARNER tile, its Parliament having only recently voted to exclude sexual orientation from their own asy- Anti-discrimination law and the lum legislation. Others may also be hostile. Moreover, while European Union ILGA-Europe will continue to Mark Bell has published a monograph on campaign in the European Par- “Anti-discrimination law and the Euro- Jean Lambert will table ILGA- liament, the decision will be Europe’s amendments in the EP pean Union”. This book examines the taken entirely by the national transformation of EU anti-discrimination governments, since the EP has law, from its traditional focus on sex and our position paper, which is pub- only a consultative role. nationality discrimination, to the wider lished in English, French and There is little support for our anti-discrimination law since the addi- Spanish at the ILGA-Europe proposals concerning the recog- tion of Article 13 to the EC Treaty in web-site at www.ilga-europe.org. nition of LGBT families. 1999. There is a specific analysis of EU Although we are unlikely to suc- law and policy on discrimination on Since May there have been four ceed with these proposals, we grounds of race and sexual orientation, developments: believe it important to continue and the situation of these forms of dis- lobbying in support of them, in crimination in the national laws of each of the 15 member states. 1 The full title is: Proposal for a Council Directive laying down minimum standards for the qualification The book is published by Oxford University Press and can be and status of third country nationals and stateless persons as refugees, in accordance with the 1951 Con- vention relating to the status of refugees and the 1967 Protocol, or as persons who otherwise need interna- ordered there or at http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-924450-2 tional protection – COM (2001) 510. 3 Ilga Newsletter 3.2002 13.08.2002 12:03 Uhr Seite 4 europe news ilga letter European Union New developments in the campaign on free movement ILGA-Europe’s campaign on the (PPE/E). In the working docu- together with their same-sex The Transnational Radical Party free movement of EU citizens is ment she has identified several partner. led by its Italian co-president moving on. The campaign issues the Parliament needs to Marco Cappato has launched an described in previous address. One of them is the defi- The deliberations of the proposal on-line petition calling upon the Newsletters1 addresses issues of nition of the notion “family in the Council and the Parlia- European institutions and the great importance to Europe’s members” who should benefit ment’s first reading of the draft governments of the member LGBT community. It is a from the right to free movement. directive are likely to progress in states to fully respect the free- response to a draft directive Should unmarried partners in a which fails to take adequate stable relationship also be con- account of LGBT needs. In prac- sidered, for the purposes of free ILGA-Europe campaign proposals tice the free movement of fami- movement, as family members, lies within the EU is restricted to and should this also apply to The principle of free circulation is one of the founding principles families where partners are mar- same-sex partners? In the Com- of the European Union, and the free movement of persons is the ried.
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