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President Zelensky's decree approving Ukraine's National Human Rights Strategy to 2035 gives LGBTIQ+ protection its own operational goal: fighting discrimination, hate speech and hate crimes. Here's what it promises, what it leaves out, and what happens next.
A government draft to replace Ukraine's 1971 Labour Code cleared a key parliamentary committee on September 25. It keeps the ban on discrimination over sexual orientation and gender identity at work. LGBTQ+ groups are pushing to add gender expression and sex characteristics before the final vote.
Around 5,000 people marched through central Kyiv on June 21 for Ukraine's largest Pride since Russia's full-scale invasion — a defiant, joyful, and unmistakably wartime demonstration that ended with the crowd dispersing under an air raid alert.
KyivPride has set its 2026 dates — Pride Park on June 14, the Equality March on June 21 — as the LGBTQ+ movement in wartime Ukraine becomes a statement of resilience as much as rights.
