The Brazilian Resolution on LGBT rights
From www.brazilianresolution.com:
"August 6th 1992. For the first time ever, homosexuality was openly addressed within the United Nations.
In his speech given in the name of Human Rights Advocates and ILGA, Professor Douglas Sanders deplored how Lesbian and Gay rights issues have received no attention in the human rights work of the UN. He called it "a serious omission". Sanders predicted that it might take ten years of lobbying the UN before lesbian and gay rights are fully accepted at the international level
11 years later, March 2003. To general surprise, Brazil presented a resolution on sexual orientation at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva (UNCHR).
The text simply asserts that sexual diversity is an integral part of Universal Human Rights. However, the resolution immediately met strong opposition. A solid block of countries, under the pressure of the Organisation of Islamic Conferences and the Vatican opposed the voting of the text in 2003. In 2004, Brazil, realizing that the resolution still did not have sufficient support to ensure passage of its resolution, decided to postpone discussion to 2005."
Do you want to contribute, then sign the petition at the following link: http://www.ilga.org/brazilianresolution/petition.asp?LangueID=1
I have already signed and sent it around to a number of people. I hope a lot more of you would do the same.
I wish that this issue can be brought up here at home...but then I guess lets start with the UN and then maybe that will get the Egyptian government to stop arresting gay men...
umm... I doubt that...its just one other way of making the government homophobes feel happier, feel in control of the people and in the same time distract them from everything else that they might be screwing up on...
"August 6th 1992. For the first time ever, homosexuality was openly addressed within the United Nations.
In his speech given in the name of Human Rights Advocates and ILGA, Professor Douglas Sanders deplored how Lesbian and Gay rights issues have received no attention in the human rights work of the UN. He called it "a serious omission". Sanders predicted that it might take ten years of lobbying the UN before lesbian and gay rights are fully accepted at the international level
11 years later, March 2003. To general surprise, Brazil presented a resolution on sexual orientation at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva (UNCHR).
The text simply asserts that sexual diversity is an integral part of Universal Human Rights. However, the resolution immediately met strong opposition. A solid block of countries, under the pressure of the Organisation of Islamic Conferences and the Vatican opposed the voting of the text in 2003. In 2004, Brazil, realizing that the resolution still did not have sufficient support to ensure passage of its resolution, decided to postpone discussion to 2005."
Do you want to contribute, then sign the petition at the following link: http://www.ilga.org/brazilianresolution/petition.asp?LangueID=1
I have already signed and sent it around to a number of people. I hope a lot more of you would do the same.
I wish that this issue can be brought up here at home...but then I guess lets start with the UN and then maybe that will get the Egyptian government to stop arresting gay men...
umm... I doubt that...its just one other way of making the government homophobes feel happier, feel in control of the people and in the same time distract them from everything else that they might be screwing up on...
posted by Tamer at
5:40 PM
2 Comments:
by the way titi,
do u remember the queen boat incident where they arrested i cant remember the number of gay men for prostitution, because they couldnt arrest for being homosexual cause the egyptian constitution doesnt acknowledge homosexuality, which is understandable when both muslims and coptics consider it sinful.
after that incident, homosexuals mfought and got a lot of recognition which led to american intervention to help give homosexuals their rights, as far as i remember, they didnt get it recognized, but homosexuals were no longer arrested.
And two summers ago i was shocked when i saw a couple of homosexuals kissing which is a sight i never expected to see in Egypt, i have seen this phenomen happen more and more in different clubs and pubs.
Khawater,
I believe that is what the government tries to make the people believe. However, you can check the following link for the Human Rights Watch report on this topic: http://hrw.org/reports/2004/egypt0304/
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