Country's MPs approved series of amendments on Wednesday
The new initiative will be supporting up to 15 organizations' work on socio-economic justice for racialized LGBTI communities
Children's book author in 2019 challenged anti-LGBTQ statute
Enshrining the rights of LGBTQ people is a "historic victory for the rainbow community," said advocacy group COC Nederland
According to the most recent statistics every year in France 700,000 pupils are victims of harassment at school
Openly gay minister described practice as 'cruel process'
"Belgium is a pioneer in the field of LGBTQ rights- but a ban [on conversion practices] was sadly missing from our legislative arsenal"
Romas Zabarauskas came out in 2011 at Vilnius Film Festival
Poland has drawn condemnations from the European Union for its discriminatory laws surrounding LGBTQ+ people
The legislation did not give equal protections and rights such as marriage or civil unions and needed 76 votes to be passed
