Amnesty International today urged authorities in Russia’s second largest city not to enact a homophobic bill that will discriminate against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community.
The next meeting of the Amnesty International Ireland LGBT Discrimination Group is taking place on Wednesday 12 October 2011 at 18:00 in Amnesty International Offices in Temple Bar.
On 18 June following the Sofia Pride march, five Pride volunteers were attacked by a group of unknown perpetrators. Three of them suffered minor injuries. The victims suspect that the attackers followed them as they were leaving the Pride.
Amnesty International is calling on the Moscow authorities to overturn their ban on the city’s gay pride event, which had been set to take place on 28 May.
Amnesty International has called on the Ugandan authorities to ensure a credible investigation into the death of a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights activist who successfully sued a national newspaper that named him as being homosexual.
Frank Mugisha, Chair of the NGO Sexual Minorities Uganda, is no stranger to receiving threats because of his sexual orientation. But when a Ugandan tabloid published his personal details in October and called for him and others to be hanged for ‘recruiting children’ he knew there would be a struggle ahead - on the streets and in the courts.
Amnesty International is calling on the new mayor of Moscow to protect the right to peaceful assembly after a European ruling found the recent ban on Pride marches in the city discriminatory.
The Serbian authorities must ensure that the 2010 Belgrade Pride, the first in nearly 10 years, goes ahead unobstructed, Amnesty International said today.
