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Irelands 2017 ILGA ranking

  • 18-05-2017 11:28pm
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    Ten of Swords
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    ILGA has rated every country in Europe in terms of LGBT rights and equality for the calendar year 2016. The results have just been released.

    Ireland is in 15th place with a score of 52%

    2016 rating (12th place with 55%)
    Thread here

    2015 rating (18th place with 48%)
    Thread here

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    Ireland, Executive summary
    Following the global attention garnered in the wake of the high-profile marriage referendum and self-determination gender laws the previous year, many Irish developments in 2016 were driven by data. Many pieces of first-time research focusing on specific LGBTI perspectives were conducted, which will hopefully inform future legislative practice. This included the first reports on life for LGBT prisoners in Ireland, the largest mental health study carried out to date, and the first trans mental health campaign. Particular forms of data were analysed for the first time too; such as first set of hate crime statistics since the police began recording transphobic motives in 2015. Hate crime and hate speech laws continue to be an area with almost non-existent protection for LGBTI people; no advances were reported here in 2016. Some elements of the Child and Family Relationships Act were given ministerial approval and a revision of the blood donation criteria was promised. In another first, Katherine Zappone became the country’s first openly lesbian cabinet minister.
    Full ILGA review of Ireland

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