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Contents:
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
- ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
- WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
- RSIA NOT ONLY COUNTRY WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
- RSIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW, SPELLED OUT PLA ENGLISH
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
A draft bill before Rsia’s parliament would signifintly affect the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. * anti gay rights in russia *
The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals.
‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
We ll on the Rsian thori to cease targetg the largt and most proment LGBTI rights group Rsia and foster a normal workg environment for activists for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, tersex and transgenr people the untry. * anti gay rights in russia *
Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways.
WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
* anti gay rights in russia *
And particularly where that base of support is close to relig views, there is a lot of crossover there that works for polil opportunists who are g official forms of homophobia to fe their polil That is Dan Healey, profsor of Rsian history at the Universy of Oxford.
RSIA NOT ONLY COUNTRY WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
Petersburg and Mosw have been marked by state vlence and arrts, while an crease the number of attacks on LGBTQ people throughout Rsia—both by dividuals and by anized homophobic groups—creased after the 2013 law, acrdg to a 2014 report published by Human Rights Watch. In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights led that Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” was discrimatory, promoted homophobia, and vlated the European Conventn on Human Rights and that “served no legimate public tert. Rsian thori should vtigate allegatns of a new wave of anti-lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) persecutn Chechnya and take steps to protect rights fenrs and journalists who expose ab there, Human Rights Watch said today.
The allegatns of a new round of homophobic persecutn and the threats agast Kochetkov e after Chechen thori had rried out a vic large-sle anti-gay purge sprg 2017, durg which lol police round up and tortured around 100 men they spected of beg gay. In November 2018, 16 participatg stat of the Organizatn for Secury and Co-Operatn Europe (OSCE) voked the anizatn’s “Mosw Mechanism, ” and appoted a rapportr to look to allegatns of ab Chechnya, cludg the anti-gay purge.
RSIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW, SPELLED OUT PLA ENGLISH
Rsia should effectively vtigate the allegatns of new ab agast LGBT people by Chechen thori, liver acuntabily for the 2017 anti-gay purge, and ensure the safety of Kochetkov, his lleagu at Rsian LGBT Network, and other human rights fenrs and journalists who work at great personal risk to stop ab Chechnya. “Agast the backdrop of this stark impuny for the horrific anti-gay purge of 2017, reports of a new wave of persecutn of LGBT people Chechnya are extremely disturbg, pecially the wake of the damng OSCE report, but not surprisg at all, ” Reid said. (New York) – Rsia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law has served as a tool for anti-gay discrimatn the year sce entered to force, even though Rsian thori have fed only four people for vlatg .