Azerbaijan has ranked as the worst place for LGBTI people to live in Europe in the annual Rainbow Index by the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe).
The oil-rich Caspian state met under 5 percent of ILGA-Europe’s assessment criteria, which evaluate the legal and practical conditions in 49 European countries on the basis of how restrictive they are to LGBTI communities.
According to ILGA, Azerbaijan’s LGBTI people faced “severe challenges” in the last year with numerous violent attacks and several murders of LGBTI individuals reported. The organisation detailed some of the anti-LGBTI rhetoric by …read more
Source: Newsweek
