The 64th Grammy Awards were held in Las Vegas last night. The annual award ceremony was joined by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. In an emotional statement, he once again called on the world community to support Ukraine

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“The war. What is more opposite to music? The silence of ruined cities and killed people. Our children draw swooping rockets, not shooting stars. Over 400 children have been injured and 153 children died. And we’ll never see them drawing. Our parents are happy to wake up in the morning in bomb shelters – but alive. Our loved ones don’t know if we will be together again. The war doesn’t let us choose who survives and who stays in eternal silence. Our musicians wear body armors instead of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded in hospitals. Even to those who can’t hear them. But the music will break through anyway. We defend our freedom. To live. To love. To sound. On our land, we are fighting Russia which brings horrible silence with its bombs. The dead silence. Fill the silence with your music. Fill it today to tell our story. Tell the truth about this war on your social networks, on TV. Support us, in any way you can. Any – but not silence. And then peace will come. To all our cities the war is destroying. Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Volnovakha, Mariupol and others. They are legends already. But I have a dream of them living, and free – free like you on the Grammy stage,”

“It’s very painful to see the great powers waging war with expensive weapons,” said American legend John Legend after the performance. “I wrote FREE after seeing footage of Russia’s morally unjust, brutal and senseless invasion of Ukraine.”

The European Court of Human Rights has registered the case: “Tbilisi Pride” and others v. Georgia – announced by “Tbilisi Pride”.

The case concerns the events of July 5-6 last year. In particular, the large-scale and organized violence perpetrated by violent groups. Against the organizers of the “Pride March and LGBT activists.

The applicants ask the Strasbourg court to find a violation of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights in conjunction with Articles 3 and 11, which constitutes discriminatory treatment on the grounds of violation of their dignity and freedom of assembly.

The applicants pay particular attention to the state’s inaction in preventing the violence that took place on 5 July, to the impunity of the organizers of the violence, to the ineffective investigation of the crimes committed and to the fact that the prosecution did not recognize the victims as victims.

“It is important that the decision of the Strasbourg court restores the applicants’ violated rights and that the state be held accountable for its inaction,” Tbilisi Pride said in a statement.

“Tbilisi Pride” is represented by the “Georgian Democratic Initiative” in the Strasbourg court.

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The role of transgender people in the history of the fight for LGBTQ rights is prominent. The changes like protests and activism, were often led by transgender human rights defenders. Some of them tried to fight for equality through political activities.

In this article, you will learn about 9 transgender politicians who have made historic changes and are still actively fighting for LGBTQ rights.

Jowelle de Souza

Jowelle de Souza is a transgender and queer human rights activist as well as an animal rights activist from Trinidad and Tobago. She was the first transgender woman to sue the government for degrading treatment. In February 2022, de Souza became the first openly transgender senator in the country’s history.

Petra De Sutter

Petra de Satter is a gynecologist and LGBTQ + activist who has represented the Flemish Green Party in the European Parliament since last year. She is also a professor at the University of Ghent, lecturing on reproductive health. The 57-year-old politician is the first transgender vice-premier and the first transgender member of the Belgian parliament.

Anna Grodzka

Polish politician Anna Grdzka became the first transgender parliamentarian in the history of Poland and the third in the world in 2011. Grodzka founded the organization Transfusion in 2008. It works to improve the legal status of transgender people. The organization provides psychological support to transgender people and their loved ones in the transition process. As well as legal advice and assistance in the process of legal gender reassignment.

Georgina Beyer

Former drag singer and sex worker, LGBTQ human rights activist Georgina Beyer is the world’s first openly transgender parliamentarian. She has spoken in public about the transition process, the challenges facing transgender people. She is to credit that sex work has become legal in New Zealand.

Vladimir Luxuria

Italian actor, activist and politician, Vladimir Luxuria, organized Italy’s first pride march in 1994. She became the world ‘s second transgender parliamentarian in 2006. Luxuria, who has always actively spoken out about the legal status of transgender, gay, lesbian, bisexual and gay people, has led to political change in Italy.

Lina Axelsson Kihlblom

The first representative of the Swedish government, the Swedish Minister of Schools, Lina Axelson Kilblom is a lawyer, education expert and activist. In an autobiographical book published in 2015, she spoke openly about adolescence, which was full of challenges, and about the transition that helped her find herself.

Tessa Ganserer and Nick Slavik

In 2021, Tessa Ganserer and Nick Slavik were able to become the first transgender members of the Bundestag. Members of the Green Party support the anti-discrimination law, which requires half of members of parliament to be women. They are actively working to make the gender reassignment process dependent on self-identification and to develop a national action plan to combat racism, sexism, transphobia and homophobia.

Tori Cooper