EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs adopted the recommendation for a roadmap to tackle homophobia and discrimination based on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.

¨A European Parliamentary committee this morning adopted a recommendation for an EU roadmap against homophobia and transphobia.

The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs adopted the recommendation for a roadmap to tackle homophobia and discrimination based on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Today’s report builds on ten previous requests by the European Parliament over three years to roll out an equality strategy for LGBT people.

Similar strategies already exist for Roma integration, gender equality and discrimination.

The report today, which is non-binding, calls on the commission to make proposals for the areas of employment, education, health and access to goods and services.

In May, eleven EU member states expressed support for such a roadmap...please read it all, thanks to Pink News, United Kingdom

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