Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has called on the T\u00e1naiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, to use this week\u2019s Council of Europe meeting to challenge Russia over its crackdown on the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) citizens.<\/p>\n
Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cCouncil of Europe representatives will be meeting in Strasbourg this week to discuss the compliance of member states with ECHR judgements. We know that Russia\u2019s ban on Gay Pride Parades and their failure to honour a 2010 ruling against them on the issue is on the agenda.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince then Russia has intensified its persecution on LGBT citizens by passing the so-called \u2018Gay Propaganda\u2019 law. Violent homophobic attacks have also increased in this repressive atmosphere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe T\u00e1naiste has stated the government\u2019s complete opposition to these laws and human rights abuses, and that is to be welcomed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am now calling on the T\u00e1naiste to put its words into action and to work with his European counterparts to challenge Russia on these human rights abuses.<\/p>\n
\u201cRussia clearly violated the ECHR\u2019s judgement when it banned LGBT public expression and assembly in 2010, but since the passage of the \u2018propaganda\u2019 law it has severely attacked the human rights of its LGBT citizens.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is completely unacceptable and the T\u00e1naiste really needs to stress that point this week and to ensure the Russian government are aware that Ireland will not stand idly by while LGBT people are being persecuted and their human rights violated.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has called on the T\u00e1naiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, to use this week\u2019s Council of Europe meeting to challenge Russia over its crackdown on the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) citizens. Deputy Crowe said: \u201cCouncil of Europe representatives will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,50,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-council-of-europe","category-human-rights","category-lgbt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}