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Summer 2001 Lesbian/Gay Law Project Partners Will Have to Relevant Web-Sites: Notes, Usa/Legal/Lgln europe news Vol. 1, issue 2, August 2001 ilga letter www.ilga-europe.org Belgrade Gay Pride Activists under attack Photo: Associated Press First row: Claudia Roth; second row, left: Lousewies van der Laan, David Geer and Hein Verkerk; right: Mette Vadstrup, Michael Cashman and Joke Swiebel LGBT “embassy” opened On 27 June 2001, the new ILGA- many friends and supporters Verkerk und David Geer. And attend our opening party. Since Europe office in Brussels, rent- from the Platform of European Griffith Vaughan Williams, who her groundbreaking 1994 EP ed and in use already since Social NGOs and its member made the journey from London report “on equal rights for February, was finally opened organisations, but also from just for these two occasions. homosexuals and lesbians in officially. Around 80 people fol- Human Rights Watch. And of Other ILGA veterans such as the EC” she has become some- lowed the invitation, and at the course many lesbian and gay Hartmut Schönknecht and Ernst thing like an “icon” for the peak of the party, our 70 square activists showed up. We were Strohmeyer travelled extra from European LGBT movement. She metres at Tervurenlaan 94 got glad to welcome former ILGA Germany and Austria to take gave a short speech emphasis- quite packed. Members of the secretary-general Inge Wallaert, part in these events. Hilde ing the great achievement that European Parliament – Joke Tom Hoemig, administrator of Vossen, chair of the Dutch the opening of this “embassy of Swiebel, Lousewies van der the ILGA World office, Bernard Bisexual Network that had just LGBT people in Brussels” is Laan and Michael Cashman, Lonnoy from EGALITE, all the organised the first European after all the years of struggle who also made a short speech – representatives from the move- bisexuals conference in Rotter- and lobbying. and assistants of MEPs dropped ment in the accession countries dam in June 2001, made the by, so did officials from the who were in town for the Euro- trip from Holland to join our We would like to thank every- Commission, including Joline pean Parliament hearing on “EU party. body who attended and showed Wellinghoff-Salavert and Bren- Enlargement – A Gay Perspec- her or his support and also dan Sinnott from the Employ- tive” on 28 June, organised by The surprise guest was Claudia those who brought flowers and ment directorate-general, and the EP intergroup on gay and Roth, former MEP and now other gifts or sent greetings by Stephan Lehmann from DG lesbian rights (see p. 4), and chairperson of the German post, fax, e-mail or phone. Enlargement, representatives of ILGA co-founders and pioneers Green Party. She happened to 2 the NGO community including such as Peter Ashman, Hein be in Brussels and insisted to KK news europe letter ilga Editorial Busy summer This summer was not exactly a quiet and dull season for ILGA- Europe’s staff and executive board. After intensive weeks in June preparing, among other things, for the opening of our new office (see p. 2) and for the EP hearing on EU Enlargement (p. 4), July and August did not bring much relief with regard to our work- The European Region of the load. In July, on top of all the regular work, we held the first two- International Lesbian and Gay Association day meeting of the new EU national co-ordination network to dis- cuss how to focus advocacy efforts at the EU and national levels Avenue de Tervueren/ (p. 7). The seminar, of course, involved a lot of preparations and Tervurenlaan 94/1 reporting afterwards. B-1040 Brussels Bank account # 001-3523388-36 Phone: +32 2 732 54 88 Fortis Bank July and August also saw some urgent emergency activities in Fax: +32 2 732 51 64 Vooruitgangstraat 333/9, response to human rights violations in Serbia and Egypt (p. 11), [email protected] B-1030 Brussels and more meetings including the Platform of European Social www.ilga-europe.org SWIFT: GEBABEEB NGOs, the Commission, and the cabinet of Commissioner António Vitorino (p. 6), which was the most important one. Board members also did some travelling, but again not exactly holiday Table of contents journeys, including to Budapest, Marseilles and New York (p. 10 2 LGBT “embassy” opened and 8). Jackie Lewis, who also is one of the two representatives of 3 Editorial the European Region to the ILGA World board, and Adrian 4 Exciting developments Coman went to Oakland, California, to attend the ILGA World Conference which again involved much preparatory work for 6 ILGA-Europe meets with representative Jackie. of Commissioner Vitorino 7 ILGA-Europe establishes new co-ordination network Speaking of conferences: The preparations for our own European 8 Pink Triangle Coalition conference in Rotterdam next October (p. 20) kept our treasurer, 10 Recent activities Nigel Warner, busy – and so did all the financial and funding mat- Meeting with the Belgian EU Presidency ters, including our grant interim report to the Commission. ILGA- OSCE meeting Europe and the local organisers, COC Netherlands, succeeded in Summer activities securing substantial funds for the scholarship programme of the SOLIDAR project Rotterdam conference. Therefore, we encourage activists from 11 Urgent actions: Serbia, Egypt and India ILGA members, especially in economically disadvantaged regions 12 EP: Human rights reports 2000 support LGBT equality of Europe, to apply for a scholarship. The chances to receive one 13 EJC: Not Equivalent to Marriage have never been so good as this year. However, please, act quickly 14 Commission has pre-selected 71 projects as the official deadline is 7 September. 15 News Clips European parents join fight for equality All the details about these and other activities can be read on the German Registered Partnership law in force following pages. The successful focus and the promising develop- Slovene “No” to artificial insemination ments with regard to EU enlargement should not make us forget 16 Slovakia: Still a long way to go that there is a Europe even beyond the accession countries. We, 17 Russia: Dictatorship of homophobes? therefore, include reports on Serbia and Russia in this issue. 19 ILGA-Europe at Europride THE EXECUTIVE BOARD The ILGA-Europe Newsletter is the quarterly newsletter Design & Layout: Christian Högl of ILGA-Europe (www.creativbox.at) Volume 1, issue 2, August 2001 Printer: Sofadi, Brussels The European Union against discrimi- Editors: Kurt Krickler (KK), nation, and the Homosexuelle Selbsthilfe Mette Vadstrup (MV) Next issue: November 2001 association, Berlin. The information Deadline: 31 October 2001 contained in this publication does not Contributors: Nico J. Beger (NB), Anna necessarily reflect the position or opin- Daucˇíková, Tatjana Greif (TG), Dmitri © ILGA-Europe. Reproduction ion of the European Commission. The Lytchëv, Nigel Warner (NW), Robert permitted, provided that appropriate Commission is not liable for any use Wintemute. reference is made to the source. that may be made of this information. 3 europe news ilga letter LGBT rights on the agenda in EU accession negotiations Exciting developments Poland, Romania and Slovenia.1 ❚ A hearing in the European Par- liament – “EU Enlargement: A Gay Perspective” – organised by a group of MEPs led by Joke Swiebel (PSE/NL), Michael Cash- man (PSE/UK) and Patsy Sörensen (Greens/B). The hearing was preceded by a press conference in the European Parliament on 27 June at which ILGA-Europe board members Tatjana Greif and Nigel Warner presented the findings of the research.2 Patsy Sörensen (MEP/Greens, Belgium), Joke Swiebel (MEP/PSE, Netherlands), Hein Verkerk (Intergroup), Nigel The hearing itself took place on Warner and Tajana Greif (both ILGA-Europe) at the press conference on 27 June 2001 28 June, and lasted all day. The June saw exciting developments, mission’s Enlargement Direc- ❚ The publication and distribu- morning session involved presen- with striking progress in the joint torate-General and the European tion to EU institutions and appli- tations on two accession coun- efforts of members of the Euro- Parliament were preparing their cant country governments of a tries, Romania and Slovenia, by pean Parliament, ILGA-Europe annual reports on the progress of report by ILGA-Europe sum- Adrian Coman (ACCEPT, and its member organisations to the applicant countries towards marising discrimination in the Bucharest) and Tatjana Greif get sexual orientation discrimi- meeting the accession criteria. accession countries, and of (SˇKUC-LL, Ljubljana), with nation on the agenda in the EU Two important events were detailed research into discrimina- responses and comments by the accession negotiations. therefore timed for that month: tion in four countries, Hungary, European Parliament rapporteurs on accession for these countries, In our May Newsletter we Baroness Emma Nicholson (Lib- 26 November 2001, described the potential impor- Activities of the erals/UK), and Demetrio Volcic which will involve tance of the EU enlargement (PSE/I). There were also impor- Platform Enlargement NGO activists from process for fighting discrimina- tant speeches by Ms Anna Dia- both within the EU tion in the 13 applicant coun- Working Group mantopoulou, EU Commissioner and the accession tries. In essence, to qualify for on Equality, who explicitly ILGA-Europe is social NGOs and countries. It will pro- accession, these countries must thanked ILGA-Europe for all the actively participating public bodies, vide an opportunity meet certain basic human rights information collected, and Ms in the working group between the NGOs to build links criteria. But, to take advantage of Petra Erler, a member of the cab- (WG) on Enlargement themselves and with between the EU and this, the institutions of the Euro- inet of Enlargement Commis- of the Platform of organisations at EU social NGOs in the pean Union have to be persuaded sioner Günter Verheugen. European Social level.
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