Muslim states block 11 LGBT groups from attending UN Aids meeting

The Guardian ^ | 5/17/2016 | Staff

[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,

[SunkenCiv]

"The movement to block the participation of NGOs on spurious or hidden grounds is becoming epidemic and severely damages the credibility of the UN." [Samantha Power, US ambassador to the UN]

yeah, good one.

[Mike Darancette]

And Obama expects women to invite them into their private bathrooms, locker rooms and sweat baths.

I wonder what the response would be to a tranny entering a Muslim woman’s restroom or locker room.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

This is a liberal’s worst nightmare, a gender conundrum at the UN.

Eventually the Moslem countries will kill all those who want to attend the conference and claim that they have no LGBT problem because they have not LGBT people who want to attend.

The desert hides many secrets (and bodies).

[Thank You Rush]

“”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.””

Whoa, Samantha. You’re taking a position there that our government has tried to cover up for years - not concerning the “freaks” but that HIV is not a problem in the homosexual community in general. Now it’s a PANDEMIC? Or is that excluding the US? Oh! I see - that makes perfect sense. Just keep the lies going, you moron. Why can’t we ever see the end of these idiots? They have a way of always rising to the top when democrats are in power.

At least we won’t see any of them recycled when Trump gets in the WH...Maybe by the time he leaves office (8 years), they’ll all have died off...including that husband and wife team who will not be named!