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Gay emancipation
Even today, lesbian women, gay men, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBTs) are still experiencing discrimination, violence and unequal rights. Individual citizens, businesses and institutions all have a responsibility to help improve the position of LGBTs. Government also has a part to play in this respect.
The government intervenes, for example, wherever the LGBT community faces a lack of safety and social acceptance, and encourages action to foster them. It is cracking down on violence against LGBTs, encouraging cooperation between gay and other civil society organisations in the field of education, in neighbourhoods, in geriatric and other care services, in the sporting world and in the workplace, and seeking to increase the strength and resilience of LGBT teenagers.
News
Big turnout for Dutch UN meeting on rights of lesbians and transgenders
There was a full house on Wednesday February 29 at the Ford Foundation building in New York, where the Netherlands had organized a ...
Minister Van Bijsterveldt supports European strategy against homophobic violence
Minister of Education, Culture and Science Marja van Bijsterveldt is earmarking one million euros to improve cooperation between ...
Van Bijsterveldt meets gay rights activist in Poland
Marja van Bijsterveldt, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, who is currently visiting Poland to attend a conference of EU ...
Defence personnel participate in Canal Parade with their own boat
On Saturday 6 August, about 80 personnel of the Defence organisation participated in the Canal Parade, the boat parade that is ...
More countries join in opposing criminalisation of homosexuality
This week, 85 countries issued a Joint Statement in the Human Rights Council in Geneva calling for an end to the criminalisation ...
Documents and publications
‘Prejudice based violence towards lesbian and bisexual women and trangender persons'
On the 29th of February 2012 Minister of Education Van Bijsterveldt ...
LGBT and Gender Equality Policy Plan of the Netherlands 2011 – 2015
LGBT and gender equality offers people the opportunity to make the most of their lives and to make choices in freedom and safety. ...
Acceptance of homosexuality in the Netherlands 2011
The Dutch government wishes to promote the social acceptance of homosexuality. To gain an impression of the current status and the ...
Ensemble, contre la discrimination fondée sur l’orientation et l’identité sexuelles
Qui d’entre vous connaît les Mémoires d’Hadrien par Marguerite Yourcenar ? Pour moi c’est un livre essentiel, car quand je l’ai lu ...
Verhagen presented with first copy of new Dittrich
Today, ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia on Sunday 17 May, foreign minister Maxime Verhagen was presented with the ...
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