United Nations Trans Advocacy Week (UN TAW) is a collective project by non-governmental organisations, offering trans activists a platform to make their voices heard on a global scale and in international human rights spaces.

We, the undersigned equality and anti-discrimination organisations, call on the European Union’s leaders and European Institutions to ensure equality, anti-racism, and fundamental rights are a priority during the next legislative mandate. 

One of the two post-Soviet countries where "sodomy" is criminalised, Turkmenistan is the most closed-off authoritarian and repressive country in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

TGEU welcomes the European Parliament’s resolution on Central Asia published on January 17, 2024. The resolution mentions the need to revise the EU Central Asia Strategy adopted in 2019.

On 30 November 2023, the Russian Supreme Court recognised the “international LGBT Movement” as “extremist”. TGEU expresses its solidarity with trans and LGB people in Russia and calls for international support.

TGEU welcomes Graeme Reid's appointment as the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.

What's in the Council of Europe's recommendations on LGBTI people published by their expert body against racism and intolerance?

In 2023, Kyrgyzstan proposed and passed an anti-LGBTI+ amendment to the child protection law. This amendment poses serious risk.

Legal experts from around met to focus on strategic litigation to improve trans rights. We focused on cases at the EU level.

UN Trans Advocacy Week is a week for trans advocacy and learning at the UN. It is led by a coalition of trans-led and focused organisations.

Brilliant trans activists from six different countries joined TGEU staff on a study visit in Brussels in connection to EU equality bodies.

The Russian parliament adopted a new law banning talking about homosexuality or gender identity publicly among all ages.