The year 2022 was the most violent for LGBTI people in Europe and Central Asia in the last ten years, warns the annual report of the European branch of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA-Europe).
The report, published on Monday 20 February, denounces the proliferation of politically motivated anti-LGBTI rhetoric. This rhetoric has fuelled an unprecedented increase in planned and deadly violent attacks, such as the attacks on LGBTI bars in Norway and Slovakia.
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