Re: [轉錄]［緊急］反對烏干達仇同志法案

看板LadyGaga作者bemadonna (框框)時間14年前 (2011/05/17 17:50)推噓3(3推 0噓 1→)

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感謝各為版友的連暑烏干達恐同法案成功推翻共超過一百六十萬的連署請願成功 Thread Starter | Post #1 Uganda Gay Death Penalty has failed!!! Frank Mugisha and other brave human rights defenders delivering our petition to the Ugandan Parliament just before leaders dropped the gay death penalty law. Uganda's anti-gay law has failed! It looked sure to pass last week, but after 1.6 million petition signatures delivered to Parliament, tens of thousands of phone calls to our own governments, hundreds of media stories about our campaign and a massive global outcry, Ugandan politicians dropped the bill! It was down to the wire - religious extremists tried to push the bill through on Wednesday, and then convened an unprecedented emergency session of Parliament on Friday. But each time, within hours, we reacted. A huge congratulations to everyone who signed, called, forwarded and donated to this campaign - with our help, thousands of innocent people in Uganda's gay community do not wake up this morning facing execution for whom they chose to love. Frank Mugisha, a courageous leader of the gay community in Uganda sent us this message: "Brave Ugandan LGBT activists and millions of people around the world have stood together and faced down this horrendous anti-homosexuality bill.The support from the Avaaz global community has tipped the scales to prevent this Bill going forward. Global solidarity has made a huge difference." The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs' Office also wrote to Avaaz: "Many thanks. As you know, thanks to a very large extent to the intensive lobbying and combined effort of you, other civil society representatives, EU and other governments, plus our delegation and embassies on the ground the Bill was not presented to the Parliament this morning." This fight is not over. The extremists behind this bill could try again within just 18 months. But this is the second time we've helped defeat this bill, and we'll keep going until the hate-mongers give up. 然而事件還沒結束恐同極端份子們將會18個月內再次提出"同志死刑"法案但這次已經是第二次推翻這個法案了 Transforming the deeper causes of ignorance and hatred behind homophobia is an historic, long term struggle, one of the great causes of our generation. But Uganda has become a front line in that struggle, and a powerful symbol. The victory there echoes across many other places where hope is desperately needed, showing that kindness, love, tolerance and respect can defeat hatred and ignorance. Again, a huge thanks to all who made it happen. 在次感謝個版友的幫忙 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 111.240.45.125