Prejudices

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Konstantinos Koutras made a statement regarding the desecration of a commemorative plaque dedicated to the death of 13,000 Greek Jewish Children murdered during the Holocaust. The memorial, next to a playground at Pafou Square, central Athens, was defaced with Nazi swastikas and Nazi SS signs.

If you are part of the LGBT community then you should look to the North of Europe. A gay dating and information network called Planet Romeo published a very interesting report this week, ranking the happiness levels of gay men across the world. The “Gay Happiness Index” showed Iceland in first place, and Uganda in last.

More than 1,000 high-level delegates from over 51 countries will gather in Jerusalem on May 12-14 for the Fifth Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism (GFCA), to discuss the renewed threat to Jewish communities and individuals around the globe, the Ambassador of the State of Israel to Romania, Mr. Dan Ben-Eliezer, told AGERPRES on Tuesday.

May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, a day of celebration of sexual identities and sexual orientations, a day to raise awareness on the violation of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals) rights in as many as 120 countries and, as Y?ld?z Tar from the Turkish LGBTI rights organization Kaos GL puts it, "a day to stand against and take a

A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) protesters marched on May 3 in Turkey?s Aegean province of ?zmir, after four transgender women were recently the targets of violence. 

Around 100 people in ?zmir protested the incidents in the Istanbul, ?zmir and Kocaeli provinces that took place on the night of May 2. 

An "Academic walk of pride", scheduled for Friday at the Faculty of Philosophy in the Montenegrin town of Niksic has been put on hold for security reasons, police said.

The protest was canceled after police estimated that the legal requirements for the gathering to take place have not been met because of the "increased" security risk.

France's prime minister announced April 17the government would pour 100 million euros into a major anti-racism and anti-Semitism action plan devised in the aftermath of the deadly Paris jihadist attacks.
      

"Gender, ethnic and other prejudices widespread"

BELGRADE -- Nevena Petrusic has observed that gender, ethnic and other stereotypes and prejudices, are still "widespread and deeply rooted in Serbia."

The commissioner for protection of equality also said there were "high levels of social distance towards certain ethnic, religious, sexual and other minorities."

Turkey will make every effort to protect Muslims in Austria, especially those of Turkish descent, from being harmed due to a controversial recently approved bill regulating Islam in the country, Turkey's EU minister said on Feb. 26.

French President Francois Hollande vowed Feb. 23 to introduce tougher penalties for "racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic" remarks in the wake of last month's militant attacks in Paris.