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PINK Embassy launches the national campaign "Safe schools for LGBTI children and youth"

Tirana, May 19, 2023 - PINK Embassy in partnership with CRCA/ECPAT Albania and ALO 116-111 launched today the joint campaign "Safe Schools for LGBTI children and teenagers". The campaign is supported by the Council of Europe and the European Union and aims to promote the establishment of safe spaces and environments in...

Tirana opens the 14th Festival for LGBTI Rights in Albania, with the forum dedicated to hate speech

17 May 2023 – The PINK Embassy Albania opened this morning the 14^th Festival of Diversity for LGBTI Rights in Albania and the series of activities within the framework of 17 May – the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia and Lesbophobia (IDAHOT), which will finalise with the Pride March, to be held on May 20.

The opening of the festival took place...

Surprise flashmob in front of the Tirana University unveils the 10-meter-long LGBTI flag

Tirana, May 17, 2023 - A surprise flashmob in front of the University of Tirana, in "Mother Theresa" Square in the capital of Albania, was organised by the PINK Embassy and its partners to unveiled the LGBTI flag, which was about 10 meters long. The flashmob marks the opening of the week-long activities related to 17 May...

From now on, same-sex couples have the right to adopt children in Slovenia as well

Slovenia, October 4, 2022 - Today, with 48 votes in favor and 29 against, Parliament adopted amendments to the Family Code, which stipulate that a marriage is a life union of two persons. At the same time, they allow same-sex partners in a partnership to jointly adopt a child under the same conditions as spouses. The changes follow a constitutional decision published in July. According to it...

Follow up to EuroPride 2022 – focus on violence against activists and the march that was finally only an ‘escorting of demonstrators to a concert’

Ana Brnabić

Prime-Minister of Serbia

Jadranka Joksimovic, Serbian Minister for European Integration

Aleksandar Vulin, Serbian Minister for Interior

Gordana Comic, Serbian...

Why sex education doesn't have to be awkward

In the digital age, kids need a trusted source they can turn to with questions about love and sex—and research shows how parents can get it right.

I never got the opportunity to do something that's almost a rite of passage among British teens – spend a sex education class peeling a condom out of its stiff foil packet and rolling it down a banana. It wasn't until I...

ALBANIA: FROM TODAY A NATIONAL PLATFORM TO REPORT SPEECH AND HATE CRIMES

Studies show that only 3% of hate speech cases are reported!

Tirana 20 May 2022 - This morning, the National Platform ISIGURT.AL and the PINK Embassy presented the National Platform "REPORT: Speech and Hate Crimes", in a public event hosted by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection. The meeting was organized in the framework of the...

"Being transgender in Albania", travels from Durrës to Elbasan

As part of the 13th Diversity Festival Week and International Day Against Homophobia, Lesbophobia ,. Bifobia and Transphobia, PINK Embassy with the support of the Council of Europe, have opened the Mobile Exhibition, which will be displayed in some of the main cities in Albania.

The exhibition was officially opened in the city of Durrës, on May 17, which coincided with the...