Human rights – that's what the LBGT community says they are deprived of by a homophobic society.
And rights inclusion was the subject of a conference today at the Radisson. The discussion centered on the barriers to all hum rights that the LGBT
community faces. But, Executive Director of UNIBAM, Caleb Orozco told us that this human rights discussion should not be confined to the LGBT community
but extended to the broader society.
Caleb Orosco, UNIBAM
"For us this conference speaks to the principle of inclusion and a recognition that rights are indivisible and that rights are universal in how you
recognise and approach them. Fundamentally what we're looking her is not a confrontation but an engagement process of bringing various sectors together
to recognise that we all have individual and collective responsibilities to respond to the challenges of upholding rights enforcements and protection
issues. For UNIBAM we cannot do it by ourselves, so it requires a civil society state partnership to get that understanding going. But it doesn't work
if the state is prioritising a hundred other things except rights. It doesn't work if the state has a 2 billion dollars debt and its challenge to even
do a feasibility study. It doesn't work if we are talking to each other about our concerned citizens and how we improve quality of life, it just
doesn't work."
Topics discussed at the conference include: advancing LGBT rights, advancing children's rights and advancing the rights of people with disabilities.
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