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Fight Discrimination Blog
14 Dec 2010
The right to freedom of expression of LGBT people risks being restricted in Lithuania if the amendment to the Administrative Code will be adopted by the Lithuanian Parliament on 16 December. This amendment would introduce fines (from 580 to 2000 Euros) to punish "the public promotion of homosexual relations". If these sanctions will be introduced, any public expression, portrayal, information about homosexuality would be banned.
16 Nov 2010
Today is the International Day against Intolerance, yet intolerance is spread across Europe. The Roma community proves to be one of the principal targets of such intolerance.
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News and Events
9 Feb 2012
 On 25 January 2012, a Court of First Instance in Madrid upheld the decision of the Institute José Cela, a public secondary school in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), to exclude Najwa from regular classes because she wore the headscarf at school.
9 Jan 2012
 The elementary school in the Slovak village of Šarisské Michaľany in the Prešov region must desegregate Roma classes as ordered by a court decision communicated earlier this month, said Amnesty International and the Slovak non-governmental organization (NGO) Center for Civil and Human Rights.
16 Dec 2011
 One year after the forced eviction of 76 families (356 people), the majority Roma, from the centre of Cluj-Napoca in north-western Romania, Amnesty International stands in solidarity with the individuals affected in their fight for justice.
16 Dec 2011
Amnesty International welcomes the first ever United Nations report on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity. The report documents widespread discrimination and violence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people worldwide, and calls on States to end human rights violations and abuses, in accordance with international human rights law.
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