Pink Panthers Pounce on Portugal’s President
May 29, 2007 – 1:12 pmIn case you weren’t paying attention….sounds kinda like the U.S. relationship with, oh, say, three-quarters of the world!
PINK PANTHERS Portugal
Press release
Anti-gay violence in Moscow , while Socrates was in town
EUROPEAN UNION SILENCES HUMAN RIGHTS FOR THE SAKE OF BUSINESS
The movement Panteras Rosa, Frente de Combate à LesbiGayTransfobia protests against Russian authorities, for the shameful way they acted refusing to intervene both when the Moscow City Council prohibited the LGBT March and when peaceful demonstrators were violently attacked yesterday
However, even more shameful than the impunity of ultra-religious and right-wing people, who attacked this demonstration, is the unbearable silence of the EU, who, in the name of commercial agreements being arranged with Russia , is keeping violations of human rights silent.
The presence and silence of José Sócrates, the Portuguese prime minister, who was in Moscow and is about to take EU presidency, are telling about the double standard of the EU, whose rhetoric seems to be using human rights only when financial interests are not at stake.
In the European Year of Equal Opportunities, widely celebrated by the European governments, the lack of attitude on the part of the Portuguese prime minister is a particularly hypocrite sign which reveals what is about to be the Portuguese Presidency of the EU, in terms of promoting and defending human rights worldwide.
The 27th of May was a day of shame for the Russian authorities. But it was also a day of shame for José Sócrates and for the EU. And we will not forget it.
Panteras Rosa
http://www.panterasrosa.com
www.panterasrosa.blogspot.com
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