According to the AP, the statement comes at a time when the increasingly visible LGBTI community in Poland is facing resistance from the right-wing government, many local communities and the Catholic Church. “Human rights are universal and everyone, including LGBTI people, has every right to enjoy them,” it said letters.
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Some Polish officials, including President Andrzej Duda and lawmakers of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), see the LGBTI movement as a threat to traditional families. President Duda was re-elected country leader this summer after calling LGBTI rights a “ideology” more dangerous than communism. Dozens of cities in the conservative parts of eastern and southern Poland have meanwhile adopted resolutions over the last almost two years, declaring themselves “LGBTI-free zones”.
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September protests for LGBTI rights in Gdansk
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“Human rights are not ideologies. They are universal. 50 ambassadors agree, “wrote US Ambassador Georgette Mosbacher on Twitter in an obvious allusion to Dud’s statement from the election campaign.
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Life in fear
Joachim Brudzinski (PiS), MEP, responded to Mosbacher’s words in anticipation of another letter in favor of murdered Christians, imprisoned activists of the right to life movement from conception, opponents of abortion, people fired and persecuted for their faith. or people subjected to euthanasia against their will.
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According to the AP, it is not entirely clear what Brudziński is talking about, because Poland is a predominantly Catholic country where Christians are not persecuted, abortion is in most cases illegal and euthanasia is prohibited.
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On the contrary, the increase in hostility towards sexual minorities in Poland has led many people to live in fear or even to emigrate. Many activists consider the adoption of a law punishing violence against people because of their sexual identity to be a top priority. So far, attacks on LGBTI people are not recorded in any way in police statistics.
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An ideological and political event, says Dworczyk
Today, the head of the Polish government office, Michal Dworczyk, described the letter as an “ideological-political event” and stressed that Poland fully respects human rights. He rejected as untrue indications that perhaps LGBTI people might have problems in Poland.
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On the contrary, the head of the strongest opposition party, the Civic Platform Borys Budka, according to TVN 24, described the letter as a clear signal that Poland has become a country lagging behind in this country.
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The letter was signed by “virtually all allies of Poland”, including the most important: the United States, supported by France, and Germany as the largest economic partner, the Onet server warned, according to which it is “a little diplomatic warning”.
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Of the EU members, only the signatures of Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia, Bulgaria and Romania are missing. Although the signatures of Russia and Belarus, China and Brazil are also missing, and no Muslim country has joined, but Britain, Switzerland, Israel, Canada, Ukraine and Japan have joined.
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