The International Gay and Lesbian Association held in Vienna between now and the next day its 24 World Congress 6. About 200 activists
gay, transsexual and bisexual men over 80 countries will gather in the Austrian capital to discuss the state of their struggle against discrimination and for equal rights.
More than half of participants (120) in this conference come from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe, where the situation of homosexuals is particularly difficult. Rosanna Flamer-Caldera
activist in Sri Lanka in 86 countries recalled that relations between consenting same-sex remains a crime. "Failure to criminalize is of great importance in countries like mine to help our sisters and brothers can live freely and in dignity as full citizens" ILGA
works closely with a coalition of NGOs such as Amnesty International, Arc International, Global Rights, Human Rights Watch and the Committee on Human Rights for Gays and Lesbians, to ensure that the issue of sexual orientation is maintained in the UN agenda.
rights Inequality persists not only between developed and emerging countries and underdeveloped countries. Also in Europe there are large differences in the civil rights of homosexuals. According
Austria Homosexual Initiative (HOSI), co-organizer of this global conference, gay marriage exists only in Spain, Belgium and Holland.
civil union with almost the same rights that marriage takes place in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The recognition of civil unions with fewer rights than those mentioned above exist in Andorra, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
In other European countries, including host Austria, same-sex couples are still struggling to attain a certain equality with regard to marriage conventional.
gay, transsexual and bisexual men over 80 countries will gather in the Austrian capital to discuss the state of their struggle against discrimination and for equal rights.
More than half of participants (120) in this conference come from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe, where the situation of homosexuals is particularly difficult. Rosanna Flamer-Caldera
activist in Sri Lanka in 86 countries recalled that relations between consenting same-sex remains a crime. "Failure to criminalize is of great importance in countries like mine to help our sisters and brothers can live freely and in dignity as full citizens" ILGA
works closely with a coalition of NGOs such as Amnesty International, Arc International, Global Rights, Human Rights Watch and the Committee on Human Rights for Gays and Lesbians, to ensure that the issue of sexual orientation is maintained in the UN agenda.
rights Inequality persists not only between developed and emerging countries and underdeveloped countries. Also in Europe there are large differences in the civil rights of homosexuals. According
Austria Homosexual Initiative (HOSI), co-organizer of this global conference, gay marriage exists only in Spain, Belgium and Holland.
civil union with almost the same rights that marriage takes place in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The recognition of civil unions with fewer rights than those mentioned above exist in Andorra, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
In other European countries, including host Austria, same-sex couples are still struggling to attain a certain equality with regard to marriage conventional.
Source: EFE
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