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Dear Supporters of LGBT Rights,<\/strong><\/p>\n I am writing to you to ask for your attention and support \u2013 because LGBT human rights are now under serious renewed threat in Ukraine at this watershed moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n As you undoubtedly recall, following the historic uprising here known as \u2018Euromaidan\u2019 \u2013 the mass public protests in 2014 against pro-Russian politicians and resulting in the celebrated \u2018Revolution of Dignity\u2019 \u2013 the Ukrainian people made its final choice for integration with modern Europe. This choice was and is even more crucial for the LGBTI community throughout the nation because it \u2018opened the door\u2019 at last for positive changes in state policy towards the LGBTI community. We were so inspired, and encouraged by supporters also uplifted by events!<\/p>\n In 2015 the President of Ukraine adopted the planful National Human Rights Strategy. The same year, the Ukrainian government adopted the Action Plan on the Strategy\u2019s Implementation until 2020. In particular the NHRS includes development of legislation on combating hate crimes on various grounds, including SOGI (required to have been implemented in 2016) \u2013 and the working out of legislation on registered partnership for same-sex couples (required to have been implemented in 2017).<\/p>\n Unfortunately, up till now the responsible Ukrainian authorities have not achieved any demonstrable progress in realizing these important, accepted, and obligatory tasks.<\/p>\n Moreover, shortly the Ukrainian government is going to so-called \u2018update\u2019 the Human Rights Action Plan which \u2013 if adopted \u2013 will exclude any real steps in favour of improving LGBTI community members\u2019 rights (for additional information please see Annex<\/a><\/em>). Proposed changes either cross out explicit mention of SOGI from state obligations (hate crime legislation), or outright exclude some components from NHRS (development and adoption non-discrimination policy in government institutions) and\/or even propose additional options for discrimination.<\/p>\n In this crucial watershed moment we address all of you supporters \u2013 please support our demand to the Ukrainian government officials \u2013 for them not to renege<\/u> on their already previously acknowledged obligations to promote LGBTI rights aligning with the National Human Rights Strategy<\/strong>. A huge regressive misstep backward from the people\u2019s hard-won national pro-European position must be prevented by united action now. \u00a0 Timely modernization is overdue and LGBTI citizens are suffering for it.<\/p>\n Please send your letters of protest to:<\/u><\/p>\n Pavlo Petrenko E-mail list: themis@minjust.gov.ua<\/a>, social@minjust.gov.ua<\/a>, coordinator@gay.org.ua<\/a><\/p>\n NB: Please feel free to consider \/ use draft text of letter to Ukrainian authorities<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n We\u2019ll highly appreciate your financial support, please click <\/strong>DONATION<\/strong><\/a> Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n Andriy Maymulakhin LGBT Human Rights NASH MIR Center [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LGBT human rights are now under serious renewed threat in Ukraine at this watershed moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Minister of Justice of Ukraine
\n13 Horodetskogo Str., Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine<\/p>\n
\nThank you for your valued support and cooperation.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nCoordinator<\/p>\n
\nE-mail: coordinator@gay.org.ua<\/a>
\nTel.\/fax: +380 44 296-34-24
\nPostal address: P.O. Box 173, Kyiv, 02100, UKRAINE
\nWebsite: www.gay.org.ua<\/a>
\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nashmircenter<\/a><\/p>\n