And the dreamers? Ah, the dreamers! They were and they are the true realists, we owe them the best ideas and the foundations of modern Europe(...). The first President of that Commission, Walter Hallstein, a German, said: "The abolition of the nation is the European idea!" - a phrase that dare today's President of the Commission, nor the current German Chancellor would speak out. And yet: this is the truth. Ulrike Guérot & Robert Menasse
domingo, dezembro 04, 2011
Viva a República!
terça-feira, setembro 27, 2011
quarta-feira, dezembro 30, 2009
A questão é: Porque é que isto é notícia?
A Ordem dos Médicos aprovou ontem à tarde o parecer do Colégio da Especialidade de Psiquiatria, onde é defendido que a homossexualidade não é doença, mas que um médico não pode recusar tratamento a um homossexual. "O parecer foi aprovado sem qualquer alteração", adiantou ao DN o bastonário dos Médicos, Pedro Nunes.
quinta-feira, outubro 15, 2009
UN commissioner blasts Italy. Vote to scrap gay protection law "a step back for rights"
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Posted by Maurizio Cecconi
(ANSA) - Rome, October 14 - The Italian Senate's vote to throw out a bill aimed at protecting gays from hate-crimes is a step backward for human rights, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Wednesday.
''Gays and lesbians deserve full protection under the law,'' said Pillay, adding that governments should take extra measures ''to protect them from violence and discrimination''.
The bill, which would have raised penalties against acts of violence motivated by homophobia, was torpedoed in the Senate on Tuesday on the grounds that it gave unequal protection to gays in violation of the constitution.
The head of gay-rights group Arcigay Aurelio Mancuso called the vote a ''shameful display which humiliates the dignity of homosexuals''.
The vote unleashed a firestorm within the opposition Democratic Party (PD), which put the law forward, when one if its key senators, Paola Binetti, voted to scrap the bill.
The Catholic senator justified her vote Wednesday saying that ''the bill was ambiguous'' and that she had ''voted in line with her conscience''.
Following Tuesday's session, the bill's author and gay rights advocate Paola Concia said she was ''ashamed of the parliament''.
Concia also called on the PD ''to choose between my position and Binetti's''.
''The party has to tell me whose side it's on,'' demanded Concia during an Italian television interview, adding that the ''state has to tell its citizens that homophobia is a crime''.
Interim party Secretary Dario Franceschini said that Binetti's vote ''made her presence in the PD a serious problem''.
A number of senators of the majority voted in favour of the bill, which has garnered support from more liberal-minded members of the centre-right including House Speaker Gianfranco Fini.
After the bill was thrown out, Welfare Minister Mariastella Carfagna said that she would present the cabinet with a new bill for harsher penalties on all crimes motivated by discrimination ''including those against gays''.
Italy has seen a wave of anti-gay attacks this year, the most recent this weekend when a couple of men holding hands were attacked by a gang of young men in the center of Rome.
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quinta-feira, julho 30, 2009
E a estupidez continua
sexta-feira, julho 17, 2009
Discriminação não, obrigado!
P.S. - Com coordenação ou sem ela, esta é uma medida inacreditável!!!
terça-feira, fevereiro 17, 2009
A Vida Num Só Dia
Um beijinho, Manuela.
P.S. - Obrigado, Pedro Sá, pelo endereço do blogue da Manuela Ralha.
sexta-feira, fevereiro 13, 2009
Resistência ao casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo
quinta-feira, agosto 28, 2008
quinta-feira, maio 15, 2008
Dia Mundial de Luta Contra a Homofobia
Para assinalar o Dia Mundial de Luta Contra a Homofobia, a Associação para o Planeamento da Família e a Associação ILGA Portugal (Intervenção Lésbica, Gay, Bissexual e Transgénero) promovem no próximo dia 17 de Maio, pelas 16h, no Fórum Lisboa (antigo Cinema Roma), um debate dedicado ao tema «Mulheres que amam mulheres: género, orientação sexual e discriminação».