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European Advocacy Academy kicks off in Strasbourg
April 25, 2012
Today, we continue our high-level European training with the second round in Strasbourg! After an intense first 4-day conference in Brussels in March, the same 70 selected participants will come together again at the heart of the Strasbourg-based European institutions.
Journalists, political staff and NGO leaders from 28 European countries are being trained for the next three days in advocacy at the Council of Europe – Europe’s largest human rights institution with 47 member states – and in the European Court of Human Rights system. On the agenda are numerous training sessions and case studies of court cases regarding freedom and subsidiarity in Europe, religious freedom, marriage & family, hate speech and bioethics.
Speakers include experts in international litigation, such as...
Read moreEU Fundamental Rights Agency fabricates victims of LGBT "discrimination" in a new survey
April 04, 2012
The EU Fundamental Rights Agency has decided to spend €370.000 of taxpayers’ money on a new LGBT survey on 'discrimination against LGBT people' in Europe. Given the way the survey is designed the result is preset: Almost every LGBT person faces ‘discrimination’. The claims are predictable: laws need to be changed, privileges granted, dissenting opinion prosecuted as ‘hate speech’. Now the 'facts' have to be fabricated. FRA and ILGA Europe have taken up work.
In a few months from now, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) will publish an alarming report, affirming that the rampant discrimination of homosexuals and lesbians is one of the most serious social problems in the EU, and that radical legislative measures are necessary to address it. We may safely assume that the report is already in the course of being drafted. What is still missing, however, are the “facts” on which the report will be based. These still need to be fabricated.
To this end, the Agency has commissioned a “European LGBT Survey” that is carried out by the market research institute Gallup jointly with the controversial LGBT pressure group “ILGA-Europe”.
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