Nicholas Neighbors
2:12pm
10/16/09
17 local and international human rights groups are joining together to fight anti-homosexual legislation introduced in Uganda's parliament this week. The restrictions move beyond bedroom conduct and challenge basic freedoms of expression and assembly and place barriers against the promotion of HIV/AIDS prevention projects. Under existing laws, Uganda police may arbitrarily arrest citizens suspected of having consensual sex with partners of the same gender. 77 countries around the world still have stiff same-sex penalties, including Burundi, which criminalized homosexuality this past April. In 2006, Nigeria's National Assembly introduced a stiff anti-homosexual proposal known as Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act. In 12 Nigerian states that subscribe to Sharia law, homosexuality is punishable by death.
Many of the human rights problems I have been looking at have to deal with gay rights. This is just another example of how people are suppressing others because of race or sexual orientation. Even if we look back in history at previous happenings, we can see that many people had to fight, die, and win for equal rights for all, however, those same rights people once fought for, are no longer being permitted. Having my rights, or seeing someone elses right, taking away from them because they are different in a harmless manner is sad and shows the lack of tolerance that people have. It takes a lot for a person to be really tolerant of someone of is different, but its those tolerant people that have to change the views of others.
http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-10-16-voa5.cfm
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