R41 A1: Emergency Resolution: LGBTQIA+ rights

The LGBTQIA+ of community is under attack around the world with growing rates
worldwide of violence and hate speech as well as homophobia and transphobia
directly aimed at the community.

Despite international outrage, the president of Uganda signed the “Anti-
Homosexuality Act” on May 26th 2023. It heavily restricts freedom of speech with
regards to human rights of queer people and criminalises certain same-sex acts
even with the death penalty. Further, The Lemkin Institute for Genocide
Prevention has described the international ‘gender critical movement’ as
genocidal: “the gender critical movement simultaneously denies that transgender
identity is real and seeks to eradicate it completely from society.”

We call on the Global Greens to:

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• Immediately condemn the anti-gayLGBTQIA+ legislation, and the threat of the death
  sentence recently introduced in Uganda, and call on the Ugandan government
  to immediately reverse this decision

• Create (where they do not already exist) LGBTQIA+ liberation
  (representative) groups within member parties and federations/states

• Seek to introduce legislation (where elected representatives are able) to
  enable LGBTQIA+ hate crimes to be prosecuted and recorded specifically

• Commit to challenging homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and all and any
  forms of discrimination within the Green movement and around the world

• To uphold the resolution made at 2017’s global congress to advance
  LGBTQIA+ rights and commit to continual progress of LGBTQIA+ equality.