As a European organisation we address ourselves primarily towards the European institutions of the European Union and the Council of Europe. We also work with the United Nations to advance the trans people’s rights in Europe but also globally.
The European Union has (limited) competence in a number of fields. EU law covers trans people currently in employment, access to goods & services as victims of crime and as asylum seekers. However, if it championed trans rights in these 10 key areas, it could considerably contribute to advancing trans people’s human rights and living situtations.
Thomas Hammarberg’s new online statement touches various important trans issues Transgender Europe welcomes the Commissioner’s statement and finds it importantly specific on some of the subjects concerning transgender people, especially ...
Global LGBTI activists speak up at EU Parliament “On 30 June 2011, the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights held a hearing on LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex) ...
After the TGEU Steering Committee meeting at the weekend of 7th-8th May in Brussels, the Advocacy Working Group of TGEU engaged in a series of meetings with representatives of the ...
If someone had told me in 2005 when I started international trans activism that I would be standing here in 2011, I would have thought the person must have lost ...
Launch of Commissioner Hammarberg’s report on Discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity in Europe “This can only be a beginning” Strasbourg – People are streaming into ...
1st study on LGBT situation in Council of Europe area – situation of transgender people is of great concern Press Release June 23 2011 for immediate release Nearly exact ...
UN affirms Human Rights to Transgender people Today’s resolution is the first UN resolution ever to bring specific focus to human rights violations based on gender identity. It affirms the ...
TGEU calls upon EU Institutions to devote 2013 to the year on gender-based violence Violence is an inevitable reality for many in the trans-community. An EU-wide research on transphobic hate ...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has adopted a historic convention on combating violence against women. “This new landmark treaty of the Council of Europe opens the path for creating a legal framework at pan-European level to ...
Commissioner Reding learns first-hand about trans experiences On the occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the EU Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, Viviane Reding, met with LGBT people ...
EU Commission expresses support for trans rights The EU Commission answered a written request from members of the European Parliament. In her response Commissioner Reding highlights the significance to take ...
TGEU becomes a member of European platform of Social NGOs The membership of the Social Platform has voted positively on TGEU’s application for full membership at today’s General ...