The Re.a.dy network against gender discrimination has suspended the Lazio Region because it is ‘inactive on rights’. Democratic Party councilor Sara Battisti presented an urgent question.
There Italian network of Regions, Autonomous Provinces and Local Authorities (Re.a.dy), committed to preventing, combating and overcoming discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, has initiated the suspension procedure against the Lazio Region because it is “inactive in the defense of rights”. Born in Turin in June 2006 by Pride, the Re.a.dy Network connects Regions and local authorities from all over Italy in order to protect the human rights of LGBT+ people and enhance respect for differences. The email, sent in mid-May to the municipalities and regions concerned, communicates that “as required by article 4 we will attempt a telephone contact within 6 months of sending the email with which the start of the suspension procedure was communicated” .
The dem councilor Sara Battistiwho reported the incident, presented an urgent question to “know the actions planned to combat discrimination or violence based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity in order to protect the Lazio community and activate the procedure to cancel the suspension from the READY Network”.
“Just as Italy is slipping to the last places in Europe on LGBT+ rights, even surpassed by Orban’s Hungary, the national secretariat of Ready, the National Network of Public Administrations Anti-Discrimination for sexual offenses and gender identity, has communicated to Lazio region the procedure of suspension from the network because it is inactive in the defense of rights – declares Battisti – An unfortunately disconcerting fact, which explains, albeit indirectly, how our country sinks in the European ranking of the NGO Ilga Europe which every year on the occasion of 18 May, the world campaign against homophobia, publishes its Rainbow map”.
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“There is no surprise about this very negative result: the years of Meloni government showed a significant increase in discrimination. It is absurd that a civilized country, which is based on the constitutional charter that guarantees principles and values that do not criminalize diversity, but rather enhance an obvious element of wealth, Italy is affected by medieval cultural legacies. And it is equally absurd that some behaviors of institutional representatives almost incite discrimination towards those who do not represent the ‘normality’ that someone thinks they have built. We are worried, but we will continue to fight to protect the rights of all citizens.”
