Belizean LGBT Rights Violations

  Reposted June 14th, 2013 Organizer of Gay Pageant Says Event Is Private Jun 14, 2013   Yesterday the Association of Evangelical Churches and Evangelical Missions from Orange Walk sent out a press release stating their opposition against a gay pageant that was planned to be held on June 29 th .  In the release the association claims the event violates the principles and moral values of the majority of Orange Walk residents and at the same time promotes the lifestyle of the homosexual community.  We spoke with the organizer of the event, Marcos, who told us that at no point their agenda was to “pervert” the Orange Walk community. ARTURO CANTUN REPORTING MARCUS “Well for now we are just basically standing back and allowing the churches to do what they have to do; we don’t want a conflict with the churches, we are not people to cause violence or anything like that.  This is just solely a pr...

 Posted 10th June 2013 AT OAS, CARIBBEAN STATES DUCK COMMITTING TO LGBTI CITIZENS’ HUMAN RIGHTS. THOSE CITIZENS TELL STATES & SEC. GENERAL: TALK MORE, DO MORE, HELP EACH OTHER MORE TO PROTECT LGBTI PEOPLE. At the eleventh hour, Jamaica, Guyana, Dominica and St. Kitts-Nevis withheld their support for a resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression (SOGI) just before it was successfully passed by the Organization of American States (OAS) in Antigua Guatemala on June 6th. Two CARICOM states had done so earlier during negotiations; and another four qualified their support at the last minute. Since the first one passed in 2008, a resolution on these issues had become an annual ritual in which every Caribbean state would join at the General Assembly of the 35-member intergovernmental body that helped pioneer the idea of international human rights. The InterAmerican human rights system also has some of the strongest protections of any regional human...

Posted June 9th, 2013    COALITION OF LGBTTTI ORGANIZATIONS WORKING IN THE OAS CELEBRATES THE APPROVAL OF THE CONVENTIONS ON RACISM AND ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AND INTOLERANCE AND THE SIXTH RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY The Coalition of LGBTTTI organizations of Latin America and the Caribbean, formed by groups belonging to more than 23 countries, expresses in this communiqué its assessment of the activities of the 43rd General Assembly of the Organization of American States, which took place in La Antigua, Guatemala, on June 4 -6, 2013; as well as of its work in the days prior to the Assembly. After a long process of discussions and negotiations, the OAS has adopted two conventions at this General Assembly: the Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance; and the Convention Against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance , which for the first time in the region include the...