Meeting in plenary this week, the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe adopted on Wednesday 16 June a Resolution and a Recommendation on the responsibility of local and regional authorities to protect LGBTI persons at a time of rising anti-LGBTI hate speech and discrimination (see other news).
These texts were voted on the basis of a report presented by the British Conservative Andrew Boff and the Swedish Socialist Yoomi Renström, calling on central...