Thanks to the sustained efforts of civil society and supportive United Nations (UN) Member States, human rights violations based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or sex characteristics (SOGIESC) have received increased attention at the international level in recent years. Since 2010, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has adopted three resolutions on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity.

ERA’s Annual General Assembly is the biggest LGBTI event organized in the region since 2015. The conference is a lobby, advocacy, capacity building and visibility event which brings together more than 160 participants from across the region, Europe and beyond. LGBTI activists, state officials (governments, Parliaments, equality bodies etc.), donors, researchers, journalists, diplomatic community, representatives of international organizations and members of the local community attend the event.  

ERA – LGBTI Equal Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey in close partnership with its members: Aleanca LGBT, PINK Embassy Albania, Pro LGBT and Streha; and with technical support from ILGA World submitted this Written Contribution to the 3rd Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Republic of Albania, which focuses on the position of LGBTI persons in the country.

This report has been developed as part of the project “Being LGBTI in Eastern Europe: Reducing In­equalities & Exclusion, and Combating Homophobia & Transphobia Experienced by LGBTI people in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Serbia” (BLEE). The project considered LGBTI issues in each of the countries from a human rights and development perspective, contextualizing these against the backdrop of civil society capacity development, com­munity mobilization and government competence.

Smernice za efikasan odgovor institucija Republike Srbije po pitanju poboljšanja kvaliteta.

Guidelines for efficient response of institutions of the Republic of Serbia by the issue of quality improvement. 

The National Strategy for HIV 2012–2016 recognizes people who inject drugs (PWID), men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers and prisoners as key populations in the context of HIV. The strategy for prevention among key populations also includes youth in general as a vulnerable group and envisages specific HIV programmes for all five groups. People living with HIV (PLHIV) are also targeted as a key population, with specific interventions related to treatment, care and support.

The National Strategy for HIV 2012–2016 recognizes people who inject drugs (PWID), men who have
sex with men (MSM), sex workers and prisoners as key populations in the context of HIV. The strategy
for prevention among key populations also includes youth in general as a vulnerable group and
envisages specific HIV programmes for all five groups. People living with HIV (PLHIV) are also targeted
as a key population, with specific interventions related to treatment, care and support. It is estimated

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