The Brazilian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite and Transsexual (LGBT) Association (Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais or ABGLT) recently launched an “LGBT Communication Manual” aimed at communication professionals, students and teachers to reduce the use of inappropriate language that prejudices, or perpetuates misunderstandings about the millions Brazilian LGBT people and their supporters.
The Swedish minister for EU affairs Birgitta Ohlsson says she would participate in Vilnius' gay pride parade in May, the Baltic News Service reported on Thursday.
Ohlsson, who is currently on a working visit to Lithuania, said she would be delivering a speech at the event. more
BRUSSELS, 1 March 2010 -- The Lithuanian Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effects of Public Information is entering into force today. The law bars ‘minors’ from receiving information about any type of sexual relationships, and seeks to protect the ‘traditional’ concept of family defined by the Constitution as based on the union between a man and a woman.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 26 February 2010
Amnesty International calls on the authorities of Lithuania to remove all restrictions on the distribution of public information relating to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people decreed in a new law.
The controversial “Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information” enters into force next Monday, 1 March.
Strasbourg 17.02.2010 - The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, published today letters sent to the Prime Minister of Lithuania and to the Speaker of the Seimas (Parliament) on discrimination issues, minority rights and steps taken to investigate whether the CIA detained terrorist suspects on Lithuanian territory.
Press release from the European
Parliament's Intergroup on LGBT rights
10 February 2010
Today the plenary session of the European Parliament adopted reports on the accession to the European Union for Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey. All three reports call on candidate countries to provide genuine protection to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender minorities, and remind candidate countries that the protection of all minorities is a non-negotiable condition to access the European Union.
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Lithuanian Gay League addressed the Equal
Opportunities Ombudsman of Lithuania Ausrine Burneikiene with a letter urging
to take action on discrimination of trans people and include their issues in
implementation of equal opportunities politics in Lithuania.
VILNIUS - Lithuanian lawmakers revised a controversial law on Tuesday that banned the promotion of homosexuality, but gay rights campaigners warned the move did nothing to assuage their concerns.
In a 58-4 vote, with 25 abstentions, parliament approved amendments to legislation that sparked criticism from rights groups in Lithuania and abroad when it was passed in July.
The original law, which had been due to come into force in March 2010, barred the "public dissemination" of information favourable to homosexuality, claiming it could harm the mental health and physical, intellectual and moral development of minors.
The Lithuanian Seimas on Tuesday adopted amendments to the Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effects of Public Information to replace provisions in the previous edition which were deemed homophobic.
The new bill bans information that could be seen as promoting sexual relations from reaching the country's youth. The new piece of legislation is also free from the provision in the earlier amendments that banned information that promotes "homosexual, bisexual or polygamous relations" to minors, which was subject to ardent criticism.
Some 58 MPs voted in favor of adopting the adjusted amendments, four voted against and 25 abstained.
On Wednesday, Committee on Education, Science and Culture (CESC) did not approve
amendment which proposed public information which encourages homosexual,
bisexual relations or polygamy to treat as having detrimental effect on
minors.
This amendment proposed by member of the Conservative Party Gintaras
Songaila was approved by the Seimas in the discussion of the draft of the Law,
but as this amendment changed the draft essentially, it was returned to discuss
it over to the Committee on Education, Science and Culture.
In the second discussion of the draft CESC did not approve this
amendment, called as homophobic by critics, but approved prohibition of
information which encourages any sexual relations.
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