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Albania's 2021–2027 National Action Plan for LGBTI people runs out next year. An inclusive gender equality law and a hormone therapy guideline got done. Partnership recognition, legal gender recognition and stronger hate crime law did not.
Croatia's Supreme Court has rejected conservative group Vigilare's bid to overturn a discrimination ruling over its 2020 campaign against a TV documentary about a lesbian-led family. Rainbow Families says the ruling shows where debate ends and discrimination begins.
The Johannesburg Equality Court permanently barred a media personality from targeting LGBTQIA+ people after he led a march to a traditional market and refused to apologize.
From a Sarajevo assembly member's Facebook post to Milorad Dodik's public remarks, Bosnian courts have issued a string of rulings this year finding anti-LGBTQ speech illegal. It's slow, but it's building something rare in the region: precedent.
A homophobic outburst on live Albanian television this Pride season landed on top of a real legal debate: whether the law should say 'parent' instead of 'mother' and 'father' — and whether same-sex families finally get recognized at all.
The Basic Court in Banja Luka has found that the former Republika Srpska president's 2023 statements about LGBTI Bosnians created 'a hostile and offensive environment.' It's one of the first rulings in the region to hold a top politician personally accountable for discriminatory speech.
A cantonal court has upheld the conviction of a former MP who called for LGBTQ+ people to be 'isolated and kept away from children.' It took 13 years for Bosnia's anti-discrimination law to produce its first verdict on sexual orientation — and now that verdict has survived appeal.
