Write to Peter Mandelson and help end LGBT discrimination in Europe
Within the next couple of months, the European Commission and the European Council will decide the fate of an EU directive that protects individuals against discrimination. There are, however, signs that sexual orientation will no longer be included as grounds for discrimination.
NUS LGBT is campaigning for this directive to be extended to cover all grounds for discrimination. Not only will this will protect your rights in the UK, but it will extend the freedoms that we enjoy to the larger LGBT community in Europe.
This is not the first time such a directive, which will affect the laws in every EU member country, has been proposed. In 2004, José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, made a promise to personally ensure that legal protections would be enlarged to cover all forms of discrimination and the European Parliament has called for such a directive at least seven times in the past eight years.
Support the campaign
You can help support the campaign, organised by ILGA-Europe (the European branch of the International LGBT Association), by writing to our EU representative, Peter Mandelson and the EU President José Manuel Barroso.
We’ve created template letters for each to make it as simple as possible, all you need to do is download them and email the EU represenativives, details of which are below.
Write to Peter Mandelson, the UK’s Commissioner, by emailing this letter to peter.mandelson@cec.eu.int
Write to José Manuel Barroso, the President of the Commission, by emailing this letter to sg-web-president@cec.eu.int
LGBT Officer-elect Lucy Brookes used her speech on the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) to highlight this issue. You can download the speech, as a PDF, here.
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