In a “Human Rights Comment” published on Thursday 16 February, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, notes that “positive momentum” has been built in Europe to ban conversion “therapies” for LGBTI people, but says she is “well aware” that “progress is not straightforward”.
In 2016, Malta became the first European country to ban these practices, which are generally based on psychotherapy, including cognitive behavioural therapy, or...