Today the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) will start working on “a new strategy against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity”. The debate can be watched live online from 10.30am CET.
The LIBE Committee (which covers Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) have agreed to work on a new report outlining the future contents of a roadmap.
Ulrike Lunacek MEP, author of the new report and Co-President of the Parliament’s LGBT Intergroup, said: “Why does EU law prohibit discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation at work, but not at school?
“Why does the EU punish racist and xenophobic speech, but not homophobic and transphobic speech?
“These are some of the issues we will work on.”
As so often with European Parliament LGBT Intergroup publications and statements, the draft report talks about homophobia and transphobia but fails to mention biphobia. We have to ask: does the European Parliament’s LGBT group know what the “B” stands for?
