The Eastern European Coalition for LGBT+ Equality strongly condemns the registration of the new Civil Code by the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
The draft is set to put at risk the security of the LGBT+ people and will directly undermine Ukraine’s EU accession process.
Based on the recent study Healthcare rights of transgender people and gender affirmation practices in Armenia, we share key insights into how trans people navigate hormone therapy, surgery, and support systems in a context shaped by legal gaps, discrimination, and fragile access to care.
At the beginning of September 2025, activists from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine met to reconnect around shared values, understand the growing anti-gender backlash, and think together about how to support each other. We talked about the forces shaping our work today, from far-right mobilization and online hatred to colonial legacies to today’s geopolitical games. […]
The new OSCE/ODIHR data shows something very clear and very worrying. In Russia, Belarus and Azerbaijan, hate crimes against LGBT+ people are used as a tool of control.
OSCE/ODIHR has published its annual Hate Crime Report, including over 80 cases documented by the Eastern European Coalition for LGBT+ Equality and its members. Across Eastern Europe, anti-LGBT+ hate crime remains a daily reality, and most of it never reaches official statistics.In 2024, reports from Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova show the same patterns: Armenia […]
19-year-old queer Azerbaijani Yasin (Ruzgar) Ibadov was stabbed to death late Wednesday in central Baku, per pro-government outlet Qafqazinfo.
On September 17, the Georgian Parliament adopted the anti-LGBT+ legislative package in its third hearing with 84 votes in favor, 0 votes against.
The “Family Values and Protection of Minors” package threatens fundamental human rights and democratic values by criminalizing the LGBT+ community and imposing censorship on media, science and the arts, thus undermining freedom of expression.
We are deeply saddened and outraged by the tragic murder of Kesaria Abramidze, a prominent Georgian transgender women, who was brutally killed, just one day after the passage of the repressive anti-LGBT law by the Georgian parliament. The suspect, who was known to the victim, was arrested shortly after the crime.The horrific circumstances of her […]
Justice in Court for Marin Pavlescu, a young man from Moldova who became known for being harassed in the military because of his sexual orientation. After his story gained media attention, Marin was threatened with death over the phone by a Moldovan man in Italy. In June 2022, the man insulted and threatened Marin, saying […]
