In recent months, LGBT activists have engaged in various practices aimed at reducing the number of Polish local governments adopting the Local Government Charter of Family Rights.

A group of pro-LGBT political activists has published an “Atlas of hate”, which includes a map of local governments which, according its authors, have proclaimed themselves “LGBT-free zones”.

In Croatia, there is considerable public support for the protection of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, as confirmed by the 2013 referendum.

The European Parliament has adopted another radical resolution which includes gender ideology, accusations of alleged regressive treatment of women's rights and a condemnation of the US ban on the public funding of pro-abortion organisations, in addition to calling upon the EU to urgently ratify the Istanbul Convention.

Factual circumstances

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the refusal of the prosecutor's office to press charges against the authors of harsh comments under the photo of a couple of LGBT activists constitutes discrimination and infringement of the right of persons in homosexual cohabitation to have their private and family life respected. It has thus illegally extended the current definition of the term "hate speech".