Enough of the brutal reality - let's protect the rights of LGBTIQ people
ZAGREB PRIDE ·Croatia
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">The main problems this project wants to tackle are the pervasiveness of violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ persons, the unwillingness of competent institutions to recognize these cases and negligible number of reports of cases of violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ persons.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">The main objective of the project is to strengthen the advocacy position of CSO-s through evidenting and monitoring of cases of violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ persons. The specific objectives of our project are the following: 1) to standardize the evidenting and monitoring of cases of violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ persons and to empower CSO-s for reporting and advocacy, 2) to strengthen the network for the documenting and monitoring of cases of violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ persons and3) to empower LGBTIQ persons to be actively involved in the advocacy for their rights. </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">By building networks and strengthening the role of CSO-s, evidenting and monitoring of cases of violence and discrimination of LGBTIQ persons, advocating based on evidence, increased visibility and media coverage and direct legal and psychosocial support of LGBTIQ persons, this project strives to strenghten the mechanisms of protection of human rights and to contribute to the joint struggle against the brutal reality LGBTIQ persons in Croatia face every day. </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">The tackling of these problems requires action on multiple levels, including LGBTIQ persons, CSO-s working on the problems LGBTIQ persons are faced with and their human rights, relevant institutions and bodies and the media and the wider public.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">Also, considering the fact that CSO-s which work on the protection of rights of LGBTIQ persons, have a very narrow or no influence on policy-making processes, this project is focused on the media in order to encourage a debate on the rights of LGBTIQ persons based on evidence.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
Bilateral cooperation results
A roundtable discussion on violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ individuals was held in collaboration with NGOs working in the field of human rights protection. During the event, representatives from government institutions, the public sector, and human rights NGOs were informed about the issues of violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ individuals in Croatia. The partners contributed recommendations for addressing these issues and shared examples of best practices from Norway.
Project partners
- FRI - The Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity Donor project partner· Norway
- Queer Sport Split Project partner· Croatia