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Last September, MEPs stood in solidarity in front of the European Parliament against continued attacks on the LGBTI community in Poland (Photo: Greens-EFA Group in the European Parliament)

Pandemic exposes LGBTI rights' fragilty, report says

The Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences have highlighted the fragility of the human rights of LGBTI people, according to the annual report by a leading rights NGO, published on Tuesday (15 February).

"Progress which has been taken for granted is not only increasingly fragile, but particularly vulnerable to exploitation by anti-human rights forces," concluded the 10th annual review of the human rights situation of LGBTI people in Europe and Central Asia.

The review was put tog...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

Last September, MEPs stood in solidarity in front of the European Parliament against continued attacks on the LGBTI community in Poland (Photo: Greens-EFA Group in the European Parliament)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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