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Ireland gets real credit for self-determined gender recognition. But the 2026 Trans Rights Index and Map shows the country scoring zero on healthcare and family rights — and advocates say the gap is no longer easy to ignore.
ILGA-Europe and ERA's 2026 Enlargement Review finds that five of ten EU accession hopefuls — including Bosnia and North Macedonia — now have documented LGBTI rights rollbacks, a category that barely existed in prior years' reports.
ILGA-Europe's 2026 Rainbow Map puts Spain first out of 49 countries, ending Malta's decade-long run at number one — on the strength of trans healthcare reform, a new equality law, and consistent enforcement across all 17 regions.
Spain just broke Malta's decade-long hold on the top of ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Map. Here's what actually changed — and why the law on paper isn't the whole story.
Two months after Portugal's parliament voted 151-79 to advance three sweeping anti-trans bills, the legislation is still in the Committee on Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees. The delay is not an accident — and it is not a win, either.
Spain just took ILGA-Europe's number-one spot for LGBTI rights, ending Malta's decade-long reign. In the same month, fresh data shows assaults on Spain's LGBTQ+ community tripled in two years. The gap between law and lived experience is the story of 2026.
ILGA-Europe's 2026 Rainbow Map went live on May 12. Spain takes the top spot for the first time, ending Malta's decade-long reign — but the more telling story is how much of Europe slid backward this year.
The 2026 Rainbow Map calls Turkey the country where conditions for LGBTI people deteriorated most visibly in the past year — dissolved organisations, blocked healthcare, and prosecutions targeting activists by name.
ILGA-Europe's annual ranking of 49 countries on LGBTQ+ rights goes live in less than a week. With Hungary's anti-LGBTQ law just struck down, Czechia's enhanced partnerships completing their first year, and Albania's EU accession heating up, the 2026 edition will land in a different Europe than 2025's.
The 2026 report documents a continent-wide rollback: 'propaganda' laws, Pride bans, forced closures of NGOs, and constitutional amendments designed to erase trans people from public life.
