A demonstration before the Chancellery against the treatment of gay men in Chechnya. The report ranked 49 countries based on their laws pertaining to same-sex marriage, adoption, rights for transgender people, and more. But unlike countries like Spain and the Netherlands, which have offered equal marriage and adoption rights to same-sex couples for over a decade, Germany still does not grant same-sex marriage. But Hugendubel said that this message of human rights does not mesh with how LGBT people are treated unequally in Germany. But because such identifiers are not defined under law, Hugendubel says it makes it difficult for police to always recognize such crimes, and for victims to feel comfortable reporting them.

Source: The Local May 17, 2017 10:07 UTC