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Hope as a duty: standing up against the storm - Commissioner O’Flaherty at ILGA-Europe 2025

23/10/2025 Vilnius, Lithuania

Transcript of Michael O'Flaherty's speech at the ILGA-Europe Annual Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. Good morning, it is a very great pleasure for me to be here with you. Thank you for the welcome and the introduction. Thank you for the amazing sessions we have been participating in already this...

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1164th Plenary Meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council

1164th Plenary Meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, address by Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights - 16 November 2017, Vienna. Read the speech: CommDH/Speech(2017)7

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Budapest Pride 30 International Human Rights Conference

26/06/2025 Budapest, Hungary

Speech at the Budapest Pride 30 International Human Rights Conference in Budapest, Hungary, on the 25 June 2025 Good afternoon. Thank you for the invitation! It is a great pleasure for me to be here. President of Budapest Pride, mayors and deputy mayors, ambassadors, dear friends: I am here: in...

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Attacks against the human rights of LGBTI people are assaults on the rule of law. It is time to push back.

20/05/2025 Valletta, Malta

The Commissioner gave today the following speech at the Opening Plenary Session of IDAHOT+ Forum 2025 at Valletta: Prime Minister, Parliamentary Secretary, excellencies, dear friends. Today, there is widespread appreciation of the essential importance of protecting and preserving the rule of law...

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Необходимо срочно обратить внимание на проблемы прав человека, с которыми сталкиваются интерсекс-люди

26/01/2023 Страсбург

На конференции по защите прав интерсекс-людей. Заседание высокого уровня: начало работы над проектом новой Рекомендации Комитета министров о равенстве прав интерсекс-людей, Комиссар Совета Европы по правам человека Дуня Миятович выступила со следующей речью: Речь на английском языке. I would like...

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Addressing violence and discrimination against lesbian, bisexual, and queer women in Europe

06/12/2024 Strasbourg

Keynote speech by Michael O'Flaherty at the Conference "Addressing violence and discrimination against lesbian, bisexual, and queer women in Europe," organised by the Parliamentary Platform for the rights of LGBTI people in Europe of the PACE, in collaboration with the Council of Europe SOGIESC...

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Форум IDAHOT+ 2024, сейчас не время вести себя так, как будто ничего не произошло: просыпайтесь!

15/05/2024 Гаага, Нидерланды

Выступление на пленарном заседании открытия IDAHOT+ Forum 2024 в Гааге. Речь на английском языке. Minister, Excellencies, Friends, It is a great pleasure to be with you. I'm a 65-year-old gay Irish man, and this means I have lived through significant times of social development. For the first 20...

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Ежегодная конференция ILGA Europe 2023: устойчивость движения за равенство ЛГБТИ зависит от солидарности

27/10/2023 Strasbourg

Вступительная речь Комиссара Совета Европы по правам человека Дуни Миятович на английском языке Opening speech by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović at ILGA Europe Annual Conference Ljubljana 2023 “Rising to the moment” - Plenary and panel discussion: The...

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Форум IDAHOT+ 2023: государствам-членам следует в срочном порядке положить конец практике конверсии, ориентированной на ЛГБТИ-людей

11/05/2023 Strasbourg

Обращение к Европейскому форуму IDAHOT+ 2023, организованному в рамках председательства Исландии в Совете Европы в Рейкьявике, Исландия Речь на английском языке. Dear Ministers and state representatives, dear activists, dear friends, Each year, the IDAHOT forum is an important opportunity to take...

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Comprehensive approach addressing hate crime and violence against LGBTI people

Comprehensive approach addressing hate crime and violence against LGBTI people. Keynote speech by Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, on the occasion of the IDAHO 2015 Forum “Ending hate crime and violence” (Budva, 11 May 2015) CommDH/Speech(2015)2

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Речь

Europride 2022 - заключительное слово Дуни Миятович

16/09/2022 Белград

На заключительном заседании Международной конференции по правам человека, состоявшейся в Белграде в рамках Europride 2022, Комиссар Совета Европы по правам человека Дуня Миятович выступила со следующей речью: Речь на английском языке. "Dear colleagues, dear Europride organisers, dear activists,...

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Речь

Ежегодный семинар Европейской комиссии по борьбе с расизмом и нетерпимостью (ЕКРН 2021) с участием представителей органов по вопросам равенства

18/10/2021 Страсбург

Объединение усилий для продвижения и защиты прав человека ЛГБТИ. Вступительное слово Дуни Миятович. Речь на английском языке. Dear all, dear friends, It is a real pleasure for me to be here this morning with you for this seminar organised by ECRI, an essential partner in the fight against all...

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Обмен мнениями с Европейским комитетом по социальным правам

17/05/2021 Страсбург

Речь на английском языке. Good afternoon to you all and thank you very much for the invitation to this exchange of views! This is the first time that we meet, and the timing is certainly good. Even though there are signs of relief now, at least in Europe, the Covid-19 pandemic has been much more...

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Конференция Совета Европы в свете Европейского дня борьбы с сексуальной эксплуатацией и сексуальным насилием в отношении детей

12/11/2020 Страсбург

Речь на английском языке. Good afternoon to you all and thank you very much for the invitation to contribute to this important event! The world we and our children live in is often described as over-sexualised. Children are exposed to sexualised images and messages from the media, advertisements...

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Как развивать права интерсексуалов: уроки и примеры Финляндии

30/06/2020 Страсбург

Вебинар, организованный Постоянным представительством Финляндии при Совете Европы и Советом по сексуальной ориентации и гендерной идентичности Совета Европы Речь на английском языке. I would like to start with a heartfelt thank you to Finland for taking the initiative of this webinar and for its...

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Главная речь на ежегодной конференции ILGA-Europe 2019

25/10/2019 Прага

Речь на английском языке. Dear friends, I must start with paying tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York city, which you celebrate this year. 50 years ago, those who had grown tired of hiding stood up against oppression. There have been considerable gains since then in...

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Video message for the opening ceremony of the 17th Budapest pride Festival

Video message for the opening ceremony of the 17th Budapest pride Festival. 2 July 2012. Video message

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Keynote address at the 6th European Transgender Council

European societies should recognise the full diversity of gender identities. Keynote address by Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, at the European Transgender Council “Transforming Europe – 10 years of movement building” (Bologna, 3 June 2016) CommDH/Speech(2016)2

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LGBTI people are not second-class citizens

LGBTI people are not second-class citizens. Keynote address by Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, at the European Governmental LGBTI Focal Point Network Roundtable (Strasbourg, 17 November 2016) CommDH/Speech(2016)5

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