Posted on 05/17/2016 1:06:44 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
A group of 51 Muslim states has blocked 11 gay and transgender organizations from attending a high-level meeting at the United Nations next month on ending Aids, sparking a protest by the US, Canada and the EU.
Egypt wrote to the president of the 193-member general assembly on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to object to the participation of the 11 groups. It did not give a reason in the letter, which Reuters has seen.
Samantha Power, US ambassador to the UN, wrote to the general assembly president, Mogens Lykketoft, and said the groups appeared to have been blocked for involvement in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy.
“Given that transgender people are 49 times more likely to be living with HIV than the general population, their exclusion from the high-level meeting will only impede global progress in combating the HIV/Aids pandemic,” Power wrote.
UN officials said the EU and Canada also wrote to Lykketoft to protest the objections by the OIC group, whose members include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Indonesia, Sudan and Uganda.
The issues of LGBT rights and participation in events at the UN have long been contentious. The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has advocated for LGBT equality but faced opposition from African, Arab and Muslim states as well as Russia and China.
“We are deeply concerned that at every negotiation on a new General Assembly gathering, the matter of NGO [non-governmental organization] participation is questioned and scrutinized,” Power wrote.
“The movement to block the participation of NGOs on spurious or hidden grounds is becoming epidemic and severely damages the credibility of the UN,” she said.
In 2014, Ban said the UN would recognize all same-sex marriages of its staff, allowing them to receive its benefits. Russia, with the support of 43 states including Saudi Arabia, China,
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We will see whose values will win out!
Celebrate Perversity! (-:
The PC pedo-poofter war begins.
Obama is wringing his hands and walking around wondering what to do...What to do....
This is how liberals incur cognitive dissonance.
“The movement to block the participation of NGOs on spurious or hidden grounds is becoming epidemic and severely damages the credibility of the UN,” she said.
The UN has credibility to be damaged? Ha! Tell us another joke...
LOL!
Honestly, what can LGBT groups contribute? The only way to avoid contracting HIV is to refrain from doing the one thing they most want to do.
All cultures are transequal.
Hey Obama, why don’t you show a little consistency and SHUT DOWN THE UN BUILDING in New York and BAN ALL PARTICIPANTS from entering the country until this Homophobic Intolerance stops.
Obama will side with the muslims.
"transgender people are 49 times more likely to be living with HIV than the general population"
Yeah, that kinda jumped out at me too. One would think they might realize what it is telling them about their "lifstyle" choices.
Obama will side with the muslims.
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Count on it.
Will Obama declare that UN must have gender neutral bathrooms?
Ya have to wonder what is going to happen. bammy is bringing in millions of headchopping savages. He’s giving special privileges to the LGBT gang.
The savages, not the normal people, are going to show the LGBT group what “tolerance “ is. I’ll be watching and commenting.
Comparing islamic scum to homos is like comparing rabid dogs to monkeys.
"Those LGBT groups slandered the Prophet of Islam, and must die.
oh, and Death to America!"
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