On 8 June 2010 the Council of the European Union's Working Party on Human Rights adopted the Toolkit to Promote and Protect the Enjoyment of all Human Rights by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) People.

ILGA-Europe was one of the driving forces behind the Toolkit, was consulted by the working group during the process of its development, and actively contributed towards its content.

The document aims to provide staff in the EU Headquarters, EU Member States' capitals, EU Delegations, Representations and Embassies with an operational set of tools to be used in contacts with third countries, as well as with international and civil society organisations, in order to promote and protect the human rights enjoyed by LGBT people within its external action. It seeks to enable the EU to proactively react to cases of human rights violations of LGBT people and to structural causes behind these violations. By doing so, the Toolkit will further contribute to reinforcing and supporting the EU's human rights policy in general.

The Toolkit is available at the Council's website:http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cmsUpload/st11179.en10.pdf or here.