LGTBI
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In December, the European Union announced an initiative to recognize paternity uniformly in all member states.
![Ehe für elle Maria von Känel fights for LGBT + rights organizations in Switzerland. Font: Ehe für elle](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/cedida_ehefueraulle_0.jpg?itok=l97RXXPJ&c=bfb4fc363c08c9dfad17b4ddea39dc33)
On 26 September 2021, Switzerland approved marriage for same-sex couples. This political victory will enter into force in July 2022 but, for von Känel and the organisations she leads, there is much more to be done.
![Pexels The ILGA report denounces more than 900 applications of discriminatory laws.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/lgtbi_girl.jpg?itok=_GL8hifH&c=4b9f309009f1c3f52fa68243afd2e468)
Despite the lack of comprehensive registration by states, ILGA-World has registered more than 900 applications of discriminatory laws against LGTBI + people.
![IdemTV Europe has initiated sanctions on member states that do not defend LGTBI rights.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/europa-atacs-lgtb-326x235.jpg?itok=11KQOuEe&c=26248f745a2a26660dc32bd7e4366ae5)
European policies are moving forward to defend the rights of LGBTI people while some member states are failing to meet their commitments and criminalise these groups.
![Kurt Löwenstein Centre From 17 to 24 July the Queer Easter will take place in Werftpfuhl, near Berlin.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/01_queer_easter_2015_jbs_kurt_loewenstein.jpeg?itok=iy75PaFl&c=64e86277140a5572116f4a5821a38ed7)
The event has been postponed to the summer so it can be done in-person and the motto will be 'We are here, we are queer'.
![Vídeo Lesbian Project LGBTI leisure was an emerging reality around the world, a tourist attraction that is being blown away by Covid.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/pride_captura_video_lesbian_project.jpg?itok=eC3hFm7q&c=95770adf8ce53b2668899166f6c1f7b1)
In addition to the social difficulties for LGBTI visibilities and the economic difficulties for the survival of businesses, the pandemic also put an end to the possibility of meeting physically, and has also done away with the spaces that made this possible.
![IdemTV Megan Rossman.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/megan_rossman.png?itok=2yvQ_WXz&c=bdd3e19ded98d2c5fa87d9b1a568c97f)
We have interviewed the director of ‘The Archivettes’, a film that explores the history of the Archives, and through that, the personal and political struggles of the women involved in it.
![Joan Tusell/Casa Àfrica Melibea Obono recently visited Barcelona.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/melibea_obono.jpg?itok=woC27GFe&c=d5c585b1d3ee0bbc0dfe40ffc76091a6)
During her visit to Barcelona, we spoke with Melibea Obono, an Equatorial Guinean writer and one of the most prominent social activists in the Central Africa country.
![Protests against the violation of LGBTI rights in Russia. Source: IdemTV](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/russia.png?itok=TGWQmbOl)
Amnesty International and the Russian LGBT Network denounce new purge and clear violation of the fundamental human rights of this group by Chechen government.
![Ana Lodi, a prominent LGBTI rights’ activist from Brazil.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/ana_lodi.png?itok=64l7SI8J)
The election of Jair Bolsonaro as the President of Brazil has been a strong blow to the LGBTI associations. Bolsonaro used a clearly racist, chauvinist and lgbt-phobic discourse throughout the campaign.
![Fleeing to avoid a life in hiding. Source: CCAR.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/noamagar-se1.jpg?itok=6xS3gJ9d)
The aim is to denounce the serious violation occurring in many countries of the basic rights of LGBTI people, who can seek asylum in Spain.
![Two volunteers from Fundació Enllaç / Photo: Fundació Enllaç](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/enllac2.png?itok=JPPuWS8y)
The Administration Officer from the Fundació Enllaç tells us about the organisation’s task in raising awareness among the population of the situation lived by elderly people or those facing the risk of exclusion in the LGBTI community.