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The Brussels-based organization Forbidden Colours has published a 457-page report, The Hate Review, which was presented in the European Parliament on October 12, 2026.

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Ordo Iuris appears in the report more than 60 times. The author counts the Ordo Iuris Institute, alongside ADF International and CitizenGO, among the largest international actors in the so-called anti-gender movement.

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The report calls the presence in society of organizations defending life, marriage, and parental rights “contamination.” The word and its derivatives appear in the text 149 times.

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The report is a publication of a non-governmental organization, not a European Parliament document. It contains simplifications and internal contradictions, including in its description of the Ordo Iuris Institute.

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Entities named in the report may submit a response by November 30, which Forbidden Colours has undertaken to publish.

An advocacy group’s material in the European Parliament building

The Brussels-based organization Forbidden Colours, which describes itself as working on behalf of “LGBTIQ+ people,” has issued the report “The Hate Review: How the Anti-Gender Movement Spread Across Europe, 2000–2025”. Its author is Vincent Reillon, who is responsible for the organization’s advocacy toward European Union institutions. The document covers 47 countries, namely the 46 member states of the Council of Europe and Russia. On October 12, the organization presented the report in the European Parliament. The room was made available at the invitation of one of the MEPs.

The report’s imprint states that both the document itself and the views expressed in it are a publication of Forbidden Colours. It is therefore neither a European Parliament document nor an independent academic study. It is material produced by an organization that, on its web page dedicated to the report, encourages people to pass it on to decision-makers, journalists, and online platforms, while at the same time asking for financial support.

“Countering real violence and hatred against every human being is the duty of states, and no reasonable person disputes that. The Forbidden Colours report, however, goes much further. It equates participation in public debate, the use of citizens’ initiatives, and appearing before national and international courts with hatred. Presenting such material in the European Parliament creates a risk that it will serve as a justification for further narrowing the space for civil society organizations holding different views. The dispute therefore concerns not only the assessment of a single organization, but the boundary between protection against discrimination and freedom of speech and association,” says Julia Książek of the Ordo Iuris Center for International Law.

Ordo Iuris in the crosshairs

The Ordo Iuris Institute appears in the report more than 60 times: in the summary and in the chapters on Poland, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania. In the summary, the author counts it, alongside ADF International and CitizenGO, among the largest international actors in the so-called anti-gender movement. In the chapter on Poland, he calls it the movement’s most structurally important organization in the country. As evidence of its influence, the report lists, among other things, citizens’ bills, interventions before the European Court of Human Rights, legal assistance to local governments and citizens, consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 2017, and accreditation to the European Parliament.

Nearly all of these activities are ordinary instruments of a democratic state governed by the rule of law. Interventions before the Strasbourg Court are a case in point. Third-party comments may be submitted only under Article 36(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights, with leave of the President of the Court. The report itself acknowledges that the Ordo Iuris Institute has systematically been granted such leave.

The language of “contamination” instead of debate

The report’s vocabulary is particularly striking. The word “contamination” and its derivatives appear in it 149 times. The author compares the “anti-gender” movement to a chronic infection that never subsides. He sets as a long-term goal the “decontamination of Europe,” that is, the gradual dismantling of the actors operating within the movement, their mobilizations, and their narratives. Legal organizations, pro-life movements, parents’ associations, and religious communities are all lumped together, as are even feminist groups described as “gender critical.”

This problem was highlighted by the Czech Alliance for the Family (Aliance pro Rodinu), which is also named in the report. In a statement of October 12, the association’s chair, Jana Jochová, pointed out that the criterion for inclusion in the “hate movement” is in fact a differing opinion, not hatred. She also appealed to MEPs to distance themselves from the report’s language and to allow the organizations named in it to present their position in a comparable forum.

Simplifications and contradictions

The report is not free of errors. In one place, its author dates the founding of the Croatian branch of Ordo Iuris to 2019; elsewhere, he claims that the branch has been operating only “since 2023.” In the section on Poland, he attributes to the Ordo Iuris Institute the drafting of model texts both for the Local Government Charter of Family Rights and for resolutions “against LGBT ideology,” treating the two documents as equivalent. Yet even Poland’s Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) emphasized that the Local Government Charters of Family Rights do not raise the same concerns as the resolutions described as “anti-LGBT.” The Ordo Iuris Institute had published a model for the former, but never contributed in any form to the latter.

The choice of reviewers also raises doubts. Among the people who reviewed the country chapters is Klementyna Suchanow. The same report rightly presents her as one of the leaders of Poland’s pro-abortion “Women’s Strike”, and thus as a party to the very dispute the document describes.

Right of reply

Forbidden Colours allows any entity named in the report to submit a one-time written response by November 30, 2026. Responses are to be published within 10 working days of receipt. ADF International has already taken advantage of this opportunity: in its response of October 9, 2026, it firmly contested being portrayed as an entity working against human rights.

“The Forbidden Colours report is not an analysis but an indictment of anyone who defends life from conception, marriage as a union of a man and a woman, and the right of parents to raise their children in accordance with their own convictions. Calling the presence of such groups in society ‘contamination,’ and their legal activity a threat to democracy, inverts the meaning of words. The essence of the rule of law is pluralism and the right of everyone, not only of organizations representing a single worldview, to have recourse to the courts. The fact that such one-sided material was presented in the European Parliament building shows how strong the pressure is to subordinate the family policy of sovereign states to a single ideological vision,” comments Julia Książek.

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