Awareness Toolkit

Awareness Toolkit

Raising Awareness of Fundamental Rights among LGBTIQ+ Communities

A Methodological Guide for Civil Society Organisations

Prague Pride, Legebitra

Across Central and Eastern Europe, many LGBTIQ+ people are aware that discrimination exists — but significantly fewer understand what their concrete rights are, when those rights apply, and what they can realistically do if those rights are violated. The same may be applied to knowledge of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the Charter). 

Mapping and awareness-raising activities conducted within the StandUp4LGBTIQ+ project revealed several recurring patterns:

  • Uneven awareness of fundamental rights protections.
  • Uncertainty about when EU law and the Charter apply in practice.
  • Low levels of trust in public institutions in certain contexts.
  • Persistent underreporting of discrimination and harassment.
  • Limited impact of awareness activities that remained abstract or overly legalistic.

This Toolkit responds directly to those findings.

Its purpose is to support civil society organisations (CSOs) working with LGBTIQ+ rights holders in designing awareness-raising activities that are:

  • clear and accessible,
  • grounded in everyday experiences,
  • linked to available remedies,
  • safe and ethically responsible,
  • adaptable across diverse LGBTIQ+ communities and national context,
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This is not a legal textbook. It is a methodological guide for translating legal protections into practical, usable knowledge.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.