European LGBTQ rights have eroded in past year, advocacy group warns.
The Rainbow Index ranks countries from 0 to 100 percent, with 0 percent being significant violations of human rights. The lowest score went to Azerbaijan, with 3 percent. Armenia and Turkey rounded out the bottom three, with 6 percent and 5 percent, respectively.
Malta received the top ranking with 90 percent, followed by Belgium at 73 percent and Luxembourg at 70 percent. Luxembourg rose 17 positions because of its legal gender recognition law and national action plan on LGBTQ rights, according to the organization.The rankings this year were weighted differently than in previous years, making a side-by-side comparison difficult.
“There are some countries where LGBTI rights are just not on the agenda or they are threatened. When they are threatened, it leads to certain rollbacks,” Cullen said. In other cases, she added, countries may think their “work is done” because they have passed same-sex marriage or nondiscrimination laws.
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