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Proud Lebanon denounces veto on LGBT rights
22-10-2018
Responding to Official Lebanon’s vote against LGBT rights at the 139th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU) in Geneva (http://www.lkdg.org/node/17903), Proud Lebanon director, Bertho Makso, said human rights are indivisible, and hence, LGBT rights should definitely be not treated as a secondary or unimportant. Makso said it is time to revolutionize Lebanese laws in order to put an end to all forms of discrimination, while observing the developments in medicine and psychiatry which no longer consider homosexuality as a mental disorder. Makso elucidated the work of Proud Lebanon which, he stressed, does not conflict with religions or religious institutions, saying, “We respect everyone and our struggle is part of reform of the legislation regulating the status of gays and LGBT persons in Lebanon.” He alluded to a panel discussion organized last week on the situation of the LGBT community, with emphasis on Article 534 of the Penal Code, that states that any sexual intercourse against nature is punishable by one-month to one-year imprisonment, and a fine from LBP 200,000 and one million. He said the session was held away from the media in the presence of the Deputy UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL), Philippe Lazzarini, and representative of ministries and diplomats, revealing that the interventions pointed to Lebanon’s non-observance of international treaties on LGBT rights which it endorsed and signed. (
L’Orient Le Jour, October 20, 2018)
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