Member Associations

The Latvian Association for Family Planning & Sexual Health (LAFPSH) focuses on information, education and training activities for health personnel and the general public, and sex education for teachers and young people. The organization has a highly active youth group which runs a safer sex campaign (in conjunction with national media). The group also publishes an advice section in a major youth magazine dealing with problems relating to (for example) puberty, relationships, contraceptives and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It operates a telephone helpline which is run by young people, for young people. More broadly, LAFPSH runs seminars and workshops on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) concerns such as sexuality and people with disability, gender-based violence and menopause. LAFPSH has significant influence as an advocate at government level, and has been closely involved in developing the national reproductive health programme. This is reflected in the organization’s active programme of information, education and communication (IEC) in conjunction with the Latvian Teachers Association. It has led to the training of over a 1,000 teachers in sex education. A project jointly supported by the Swedish Family Planning Association and the European Commission has enabled LAFPSH to produce and disseminate high quality materials on STIs, condoms and sex education.      

EMMA Association is a national women’s organization, which works for the fundamental rights and societal equality of women, focusing on sexual and reproductive health rights, and gender-based oppression and violence during the childbearing and childrearing period. EMMA believes that each woman deserves dignity, security, freedom and self-determination in every single moment of their lives regardless of their sexual orientation, ethnicity, age or socio-economical status. It recognize the empowering potential of peer-support, the transformative power of personal and collective recovery of traumas, and the need for nurturing reflection and resiliency both at personal and organisational levels. We live and look at the life of women in its complexity, therefore EMMA is committed to cooperate with other women’s organizations and groups for the advancement of women’s life, making solidarity a lived value. Contact: Facebook

Háttér Society, founded in 1995, is the largest and oldest currently operating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) organization in Hungary. Our aims are calling attention to the problems faced by LGBTQI people; providing support services; exploring the situation and needs of LGBTQI people; mainstreaming these concerns in laws and public services; protecting the human rights of LGBTQI people and countering discrimination against them; promoting the health and well-being of LGBTQI people; encouraging the self-organization of LGBTQI communities; and preserving and spreading LGBTQI heritage and culture. Contact: Instagram, Facebook.