The increase in hate crimes marks the International Day Against LGTBIphobia
GAYLES.TV.- Today 28 years ago that homosexuality was eliminated from the list of mental illnesses of the World Health Organization (WHO) Each May 17 we celebrate the advances of rights and freedoms that the collective LGTBI He has been conquering. But Spain is stuck in the legal protection of the community and hate crimes increase a 36% according Ministry of the Interior (2016 data).
The annual report that the ILGA carried out annually on the situation of LGTBI rights in the European continent recommends that Spain definitively approve both the law of equality of LGTBI people and reform of the gender identity law.
«Adopt a new equality law that revises the existing framework of laws against discrimination, expressly protecting sexual orientation, sexual characteristics and gender identity in all spheres of life. and also considers necessary «The updating of the existing legal framework at the national level for the legal recognition of gender, so as to guarantee that the process is based on self-determination, is free from abusive requirements and does not include age limits.
The study places Spain in the novena ranking position, headed by Malta. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Monaco close the list. This position in the classification is a setback for Spain since in 2011, it managed to be in second position after the approval of the equal marriage in 2010. Since then things have gotten worse and nowadays it is behind Denmark, Portugal, France, Finland, United Kingdom, Norguega, Belgium and Malta. In global terms, ILGA quantifies in a 67% the rights conquered by the collective in Spain, obtaining full equality in areas such as the family (equality in marriage or adoption) and in spaces within civil society (with total absence of laws that violate the freedom of expression or assembly of the movement). However, Spain It has a long way to go in terms of equality and non-discrimination because it has increased hate speech.
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