This Strategy aims to build on the ambition and achievements of the 2020-2025 Strategy and is part of the EU’s effort to build a Union where diversity is celebrated as part of our collective richness, where all people can be themselves without risk of discrimination, exclusion or violence. It aims at protecting LGBTIQ+ people from harmful practices and hate-motivated offences, empowering LGBTIQ+ communities and bodies promoting equality, and engaging civil society as well as Member States and other actors. In doing so it sets out a series of measures to step up action, to integrate LGBTIQ equality in all policy areas and to help lift the voices of LGBTIQ minorities, for example by addressing the harmful conversion practices and funding civil society organisations.