If you think Putin is bad on GLBT Rights...Check out the New Ukraine Parliament!

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38. Poster #5 said that New Parliament introduced it..but they were Incorrect...

It was done in 2011 according to this site and others:

Ukraine introducing new homophobic law
26/07/2011
Submitted by Insight public organisation

http://www.ilga-europe.org/home/guide_europe/country_by_country/ukraine/ukraine_introducing_new_homophobic_law

While Ukraine had ratified numerous international and European legal acts on human rights, including UN Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, on June 20th 2011 Members of Parliament of Ukraine have registered a draft Law of Ukraine "On Introduction of Changes to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine (regarding protection of children rights on the safe information sphere)”, which is absolutely discriminatory. The draft law tends not only to break safety and fundamental human rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT), but also encroaches on freedom of speech in general. This bill proposes to introduce an amendment to the Criminal Code of Ukraine, Law of Ukraine "On protection of public moral", the Law of Ukraine "On Print Mass Media (Press) in Ukraine", the Law of Ukraine "On Television and Radio", Law of Ukraine "On Publishing" regarding establishing criminal liability for "propaganda of homosexualizm". For example, the draft law establishes the liability for distribution of works and use of the public broadcasting to "propagandize homosexualizm". In fact, the bill strengthens censorship, restricts freedom of speech, which is the basis of mass media, and legalizes violence against homosexual people. Should be noted that this bill uses and aims to legalize pathological term "homosexualizm".

Explaining the necessity of introducing this law, one of the authors, Member of Ukrainian Parliament, Yevgen Tsarkov, said: “"When you read magazines, you can find there a typical homosexual propaganda – an article on same-sex love, interviews of Elton John and Boris Moisejev. [...] For such actions one was fairly sentenced to imprisonment in the Soviet Union! We want to enter the European Union, where the same-sex marriages are actively promoted. For example, in Berlin on the initiative of the City Department of Education such phenomena is explained to pupils, they get special textbooks. It's Sodom and Gomorrah!" It should be mentioned that the only criticism from Members of Parliament towards this bill consists not in condemning human rights abuses, but in inability to control sanctions fulfillment.

Homosexuality was decriminalized in 1991 in Ukraine. But today there is a rapid growth of homophobia in society, which is strengthened by the public hate speech of political and religious leaders, by incitement of violence against homosexual people.

LGBT and human rights organizations have enounced concern and anxiety about high level of homophobia among Members of Parliament, about rousing hatred towards LGBT and the absence of anti-discriminatory legislation. Activists point out that lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people do not require exclusive rights, but they insist on respect for common human and civil rights.