Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Remove Carper From Jeep

Miscellaneous Report on events in the Marriott Hotel Caracas

On Wednesday, April 22 at noon, feminists and sexodiver @ s (Revista Mate, desiring the NGO Strengthening Peace, Contranatura, Lambda of Venezuela, Affirmative Union and other unaffiliated) we convened for a peaceful rally outside the headquarters of the UNDP Global Conference on Gender Violence, which was performed at the Marriott Hotel in camera.
We wanted to get a right word to convey to the present - that national authorities of the Ministry for Women Affairs, including our voice on various manifestations of violence against women that occur daily in the country and meet the demand which that the National Government to meet its commitments.
The slogans for the rally were:
• NO MORE VIOLENCE obstetrician-gynecologist! • NO MORE
PARLIAMENTARY Homophobia!
• NO MORE DEATHS CLANDESTINE ABORTIONS!
• RICH WOMEN ABORTION, THE POOR DIE!
• One of the major points of action was to call attention to the discussion that is taking place in the National Assembly on the Law Gender Equity and Equality , which is proposed to include measures to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, especially the article proposed by Rep. Romelia Matute.
During the action, a group of protesters approached the @ s conference participants, and was able to talk to Winnie Byanyima, Director, Gender Team Bureau for Development Policy of UNDP with UN headquarters. She explained that those features did not allow to include new rights of speech, while expressing his personal opinion that the items were claiming were totally relevant to the discussion of policies to prevent gender violence.
Given the situation, Winnie Byanyima promised to give support to the UNAIDS-in card that Venezuela will send to the National Assembly support the concept of including sexual orientation, gender identity and expression as categories to be protected against discrimination in the discussion that is ongoing to L ey Equity and Gender Equality and talk to the addresses of UNDP (international) and UNDP in Venezuela to join the letter.
And since the agenda of the event was closed and could not be granted the right to speak to a representative of l @ s demonstrators, Dr. Binyanima promised to read to the conference attendees fliers containing the proposals that we have, specifically, our support for the proposed article by Deputy Romelia Matute.

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