title: Between Sisyphus and the Danaïdes? The European Union’s Efforts to Promote and Protect the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons in its Eastern Neighbourhood. EU Diplomacy Paper 04/2016
abstract: In recent years, there have been accentuated efforts by the European Union (EU) to integrate the human rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) persons into the universalist and indivisible epistemological underpinnings of its external action. The most emasculated form of these efforts are the Council’s 2013 LGBTI Guidelines. This paper examines the effectiveness of the EU’s efforts to promote and protect the universal human rights of LGBTI persons in two European Neigh
journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)