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Annual LGBTI report: Estonia’s legislation stagnated, hate speech on a rise
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In its annual review of the human rights situation of LGBTI people in Europe and Central Asia, ILGA-Europe, an advocacy group, listed Estonia with the countries that have seen a rise in hate speech and where same-sex partnership registration or marriage rights legislation has stagnated.
The tenth edition of ILGA-Europe’s annual review of the human rights situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people in Europe and Central Asia documents progress and trends in the past year.
The review reports a stark rise in abuse and hate speech against LGBTI people in many countries, but it highlights positively that more people are turning to the courts for the recognition of their human rights – or for the clarification of existing legislation that is meant to protect them.
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LIVE: Open Society Forum “Rule of Law in the European Union: Liberty of the Many or Duty of the Few?”
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The Open Estonia Foundation and the European Commission’s representation in Estonia organise an online forum on the rule of law in the EU on 13 January at 15:00-17:00 EET; Estonian World will broadcast the forum live.
The forum will discuss what rule of law means in practice in today’s EU, what it means to all interest groups and citizens in society and how can civil society protect the rule of law.
The forum’s keynote speech will be held by Věra Jourová, the vice president of the European Commission for values and transparency. The following panel discussion is participated by the former Estonian president, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, Kristi Raik, and Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, a professor at TalTech and the chair of supervisory council of Estonian Human Rights Centre.
ERR News is carrying a live-link to the Open Estonia Foundation's XXIV Open Society Forum on Wednesday afternoon. The discussion, in English, will feature European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová, along with former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and others.
Egert Rünne / December 31, 2020 December 31, 2020 / 6 minutes of reading
Under the current populist government, the human rights have started to deteriorate in Estonia – and everyone must ask whether they have done enough to stand up for those rights, writes Egert Rünne, the executive director of the Estonian Human Rights Centre. The Estonian version of this article was published …