Recent waves of highly visible and mediatised anti-LGBT attacks have shocked the Spanish news and politics. Politicians and public administrations have been expected to condemn or comment on the physical and verbal attacks as they were broadcasted via social media and more conventional media, and as the tempo of news cycles and that of police […]
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Demonstration against homophobic aggression in Girona
19/10/2021 Hundreds of people rally against the homophobic aggression that took place in a park of Girona (la Devesa) last October 2021. The events occurred during a night party, when a group of young people insulted and attacked a young man after asking him if he was gay. The victim reported the attack to the […]
The Safe To Be Handbook – expert collection of 5 articles on restorative justice and anti-LGBTI hate crimes
The Safe To Be Handbook is an expert collection of 5 experts’ articles on the theoretical and practical aspects of anti-LGBTI hate crimes and restorative justice. The handbook, created by Speak Out project consortium, including the Bilitis Foundation and Çavaria (also partners at the Let’sGoByTalking project), aims to show the potential of implementing restorative justice […]
Restorative Approaches in Schools: Meeting on the Common Ground of Fundamental Rights to Create an Inclusive Education System
Inequality affects LGBTI people also within the educational system, where stigmatization of sexualand gender minorities at school is a persisting problem (Valfort, 2017). According a US survey (Grant et al., 2011) LGBT youth experience high rates of harassment: 63% of respondents has been victim of acts of discrimination impacting on the quality of life, including […]
Hate crime & LGBTI
This story was shared by a victim. Sunday, February 21st. It’s 7.10pm, we are on the train from Brussels to Gent. Scattered and tired we accidentally hop on the wrong train, the one that has several stops before we get to Gent. We sit down in a four-seater. I’m drawing, he’s on his phone. We […]
Hate crime victims’ needs and restorative approaches: The restorative interview
Victims of any type of crime may experience a clash between their needs as a crime victim to tell their story about the crime and how it affected them, and their role in the traditional punitive penal system, where their active participation is often limited. This gap between victims’ needs and the reality of the […]