TGEU The ProTrans project All EU member states must have transposed the Victim’s A wide range of tools is suggested for EU delegations Rights Directive into national law by 16 November 2015. in third countries, such as human-rights country strat- It is directly enforceable, which means that a victim can egies, monitoring the human rights of LGBTI persons, claim the rights established under this directive, even if EU Heads of Mission (HoMs) reports, démarches and the respective member state has not implemented it. public statements, proposing specific actions on individual cases, court hearings and prison visits, political Member states also must collect statistics on the num- dialogues, supporting efforts by civil society and inter- bers and types of crime and the gender of victims and national mechanisms and for EU representatives to pur- report to the European Commission on the implemen- sue the issue in multilateral fora (UN, OSCE, CoE, etc.). tation of the directive. EU LGBTI Guidelines EU member states have adopted the binding EU external foreign-policy guidelines to protect the human rights of LGBTI people in third countries. 23 It commits the European External Action Service (EEAS) to combat “any form of LGBTI-phobic violence”. To this end, EU delegates should take the following actions: • Encourage states to acknowledge LGBTI-phobic violence and develop, in conjunction with civil society, legal and other measures to prevent, monitor and effectively prosecute perpetrators of LGBTI-phobic violence. • Contribute to combating any form of LGBTI-phobic violence by supporting civil society and governmental initiatives to monitor cases of violence, educate law-enforcement personnel and seek assistance and redress for victims of such violence. + 30 + + 31 +