The
UNAIDS country coordinator has urged the Myanmar government, legislative bodies
and people, not to discriminate against the LGBT community and to treat them in
a dignified manner.
Mr.
Eamonn Murphy, UNAIDS country coordinator,was speaking at an event marking
‘International Day of anti-discrimination and hatred against the LGBT
community’.
Mr.
Murphy said, “We need to call on both government and parliaments. All people
are entitled to basic healthcare service regardless of their clothes and sexual
orientation.”
Dr. Nyan
Zawa commission member from the Myanmar Human Rights Commission said that
discrimination against the LGBT community occurred in healthcare services,
workplaces and society.
One person
who was given psychiatric treatment for her sexual orientation said “There are
many gays who are imprisoned under section 377 of the Penal Code. It will be
good if these provisions can be amended.”
Section
377 of the Penal Code relates to committing unnatural sex.
The
Myanmar Human Rights Commission is currently planning to amend the laws causing
problems for the LGBT community.
Htet Htet
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