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Title: GUATEMALA: Concern Over Bill that Would Restrict Definition of ‘Family’
Post by: LostInTime on October 04, 2007, 03:11:58 PM
Post by: LostInTime on October 04, 2007, 03:11:58 PM
IPS News (http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39528)
By Inés Benítez
"The aim of this bill is to strip certain partners, parents, and children of rights and recognition all families deserve," says Juliana Cano, a researcher with HRW's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights programme, in the group's open letter to Congress.
"This bill takes aim at lesbian and gay couples, but it has almost half of Guatemalan children and parents in its sights," says Cano. "Targeting children and their caregivers in the name of a political agenda is not only unjustifiable, it is morally reprehensible."
By Inés Benítez
"The aim of this bill is to strip certain partners, parents, and children of rights and recognition all families deserve," says Juliana Cano, a researcher with HRW's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights programme, in the group's open letter to Congress.
"This bill takes aim at lesbian and gay couples, but it has almost half of Guatemalan children and parents in its sights," says Cano. "Targeting children and their caregivers in the name of a political agenda is not only unjustifiable, it is morally reprehensible."