World Wide Wave

16 Dec 2013

Sri Lanka: Commonweath Heads meet Human Rights

Asia/Pacific

“My advice to everyone is to get out there and agitate, keep agitating, keep harassing politicians and drag them kicking and screaming into the real world,” said Trevor Grant of Refugee Action Collective.

In Sri Lanka this week, the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) starts. And Mr Grant is worried.  “The Sri Lankan CID have been issuing verbal warnings to human rights activists not to speak about LGBTI rights, not to speak about LGBTI criminalisation in the community and not to hold any workshops on gay rights.”

Yet he hopes that the issue of LGBT rights will come up. “The issue of gay rights will come up, I think there are a lot of gay rights activists in Sri Lanka who will bring this up.”

Listen to our podcast and find out more about the Commonwealth commitment to human rights. Learn more about Sri Lanka on W3JOY’s Sri Lanka webpage.

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