Socialist Party discriminates the LGBT community in Albania
10/11/2011
Submitted by
Pink Embassy / Ambasada PINK
PINK Embassy/LGBT Pro Albania wishes to express its concerns regarding the non-inclusion of LGBT community issues on the new, 92 page, political program (manifesto) of the Socialist Party of Albania (SP), which is a clear sign of discrimination towards the community, still dominant in Albanian politics.
The SP program is supposed to be the governing program of the party, if it comes to power. However, the problems, concerns, requests and needs of the LGBT community continue to be silenced and not addressed for as long as politics continues to reinforce the marginalization and differentiation of this social group from the rest of the Albanian society.
By revising this program, more specifically the “regeneration of society” and “re-establishment of democracy” sections we noticed that the program addresses the improvement of vital services, education, knowledge and culture, for equal and universal health services that need to be reached by everyone, for proper care towards the family, children, the elderly etc. The SP program however, never mention the access to all these services by the LGBT community in Albania.
Even though the SP might be ready to collaborate with the LGBT community and the organizations that represent the community, the articulation of issues, needs and problems related to this social group should have for the SP the same importance and priority as other social groups because the opposite would be an indicator that the biggest opposition party in Albania works against the respect of human rights.
PINK Embassy strongly believes that the SP program should explicitly include the LGBT community on its electoral program and should offer concrete and real solutions as to any other group of Albanian society.
PINK Embassy is ready to provide to the Socialist Party of Albania and to any other political party, our collaboration and expertise in identifying and offering solutions to problems and issues which concern the LGBT community in the country.
PINK Embassy/LGBT Pro Albania
Information Office
e-mail: info@pinkembassy.al
www.pinkembassy.al
The SP program is supposed to be the governing program of the party, if it comes to power. However, the problems, concerns, requests and needs of the LGBT community continue to be silenced and not addressed for as long as politics continues to reinforce the marginalization and differentiation of this social group from the rest of the Albanian society.
By revising this program, more specifically the “regeneration of society” and “re-establishment of democracy” sections we noticed that the program addresses the improvement of vital services, education, knowledge and culture, for equal and universal health services that need to be reached by everyone, for proper care towards the family, children, the elderly etc. The SP program however, never mention the access to all these services by the LGBT community in Albania.
Even though the SP might be ready to collaborate with the LGBT community and the organizations that represent the community, the articulation of issues, needs and problems related to this social group should have for the SP the same importance and priority as other social groups because the opposite would be an indicator that the biggest opposition party in Albania works against the respect of human rights.
PINK Embassy strongly believes that the SP program should explicitly include the LGBT community on its electoral program and should offer concrete and real solutions as to any other group of Albanian society.
PINK Embassy is ready to provide to the Socialist Party of Albania and to any other political party, our collaboration and expertise in identifying and offering solutions to problems and issues which concern the LGBT community in the country.
PINK Embassy/LGBT Pro Albania
Information Office
e-mail: info@pinkembassy.al
www.pinkembassy.al
