ILGA-Europe's 2025 Rainbow Map provides crucial insight into the current state of LGBTQ+ rights across 49 European nations, analyzing data based on 76 criteria across seven categories, such as equality, hate speech, and legal recognition. Though some countries show progress in LGBTQ+ protections, many others exhibit troubling trends and a decline in rights. The report emphasizes the need for immediate action to counteract authoritarian tendencies undermining human rights and urges political leaders and citizens to advocate for their LGBTQ+ communities to ensure rights are upheld throughout Europe.
The Rainbow Map 2025 offers a stark snapshot of where Europe stands on LGBTI human rights, and highlights the pressing need to defend and advance these rights in the context of acute democratic erosion.
If left unchallenged, these tactics risk spreading further across Europe, undermining a human rights framework that has taken decades to build.
The time to push back is now, before the targeted attacks we're seeing in countries like Hungary, the U.K., and Georgia become the norm rather than the exception.
Political leaders must lead by example and turn their words into action. It's time for people to stand up, make their voices heard, and hold our governments to account before it's too late.
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