Great news -- the bill has has been shelved! Together, we've won a major fight for equality and justice. Over 1.6 million of us signed the petition opposing the anti-gay bill, tens of thousands of us called our heads of state, and we helped make the attack on gay rights in Uganda a major international news story -- and it worked.
Today, under intense global pressure, the Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament blocked the anti-gay bill from coming to a vote in the emergency session. Now Parliament has closed and the bill has been wiped from the books. It's not necessarily gone for good, but to be considered again, it would have to be reintroduced as a new bill and go through the whole Parliamentary process -- which took 18 months last time.
Our global outcry made it clear that the world is watching, and demanding that human rights be respected everywhere. Today, we can join our friends in Uganda in celebration of a victory that could save thousands of lives.
I doubt Avaaz and the petition signers can claim all or even most of the credit. But it must have helped.
1 comment:
WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is awesome it is purely great.me being a queer youth myself in Canada i am so happy about this.i repeat what i first said WOOT WOOT!
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