Malta Star: [Watch] MP Evarist Bartolo receives 2012 Soldier Award for equality rights

http://www.maltastar.com/dart/20120630-watch-mp-evarist-bartolo-receives-2012-soldier-award-for-equality-rights
Saturday, 30 Jun 2012, 17:43

The Soldier Award 2012 for equality rights was given in absentia to Labour MP Evarist Bartolo. Gay Exiles' envoy Russell Sammut has presented the 2012 Soldier Award to equality rights activist Evarist Bartolo during this year's gay pride celebration in Sliema on Saturday morning.

MP Evarist Bartolo has fearlessly defended the rights of Malta's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and asexual (LGBTQA) community, who continues to be treated as second class citizens under current law.

A Recipient is selected annually through a rigorous public and inter-organizational voting system in which both the general public and minority rights NGOs, including the Malta Gay Rights Movement, the Maltese Gay Community, Drachma and other contributors elect a member of the community who has demonstrated commitment and dedication to advance equal rights in Malta.

MP Bartolo has campaigned and spoken publicly for many years to protect and advance human rights in Malta.

Whilst thanking Gay Exiles on Facebook, Bartolo said that he would have liked to attend the celebrations in person as he has done in the past but had other engagements abroad. He said that he believes in equality in civil rights by conviction not by convention.

[Click on the link above to watch the video.]

Malta Star: Even minorities are human beings

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Saturday, 30 Jun 2012 by Evarist Bartolo

Last year, together with other 84 countries, Malta signed a United Nations’ Human Rights Council joint declaration calling for an end to violence, criminal sanctions and human rights violations against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Gay Exiles: Award given in absentia to Maltese equality activist Evarist Bartolo

30.6.2012

Gay Exiles' envoy Russell Sammut has presented the 2012 Soldier Award to equality rights activist Evarist Bartolo during this year's gay pride celebration in Sliema on Saturday.

The Hon. Bartolo has fearlessly defended the rights of Malta's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and asexual (LGBTQA) community, who continues to be treated as second class citizens under current law.

A Recipient is selected annually through a rigorous public and inter-organizational voting system in which both the general public and leading minority rights NGOs, including the Malta Gay Rights Movement, the Maltese Gay Community, Drachma and other contributors elect a member of the community who has demonstrated commitment and dedication to advance equal rights in Malta

Bartolo has campaigned and spoken publicly for many years to protect and advance human in Malta. Bartolo would have like to attend the celebrations in person as he has done in the past but had other engagements abroad.

Malta Right Now: Inawgurata l-Pride Week 2012

http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=Inawgurata+l%2DPride+Week+2012&t=a&aid=99838499&cid=19
Ivan VASSALLO, 30 ta' Ġunju, 2012 16:06 CET

Ġiet inawgurata l-Pride Week 2012 b'mixja mill-monument tal-familja f'Tas-Sliema għal pjazza Sant' Anna. Għal din il-mixja kien hemm preżenti bosta membri tas-soċjeta' ċivili fosthom il-partiti politiċi, għaqdiet non-governattivi u anka l-Ambaxxatriċi Amerikana.

F'isem il-Partit Nazzjonalista kien hemm il-whip David Agius u d-Deputat Karl Gouder.

Fl-indirizz tiegħu il-Ministru Chris Said tkellem fuq il-ħidma tal-gvern fejn semma legiżlazzjoni importanti kontra l-krimini ta' mibgħeda.

Il-Ministru fakkar ukoll kif żdiedet l-allokazzjoni finanzjarja u l-poteri tal-NCPE b'mod unanimu mill-parlament. Hu saħaq li flimkien dan u aktar jista' jkun possibli.

Malta Star: Gay rights, human rights

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Saturday, 30 Jun 2012, 01:31

There are citizens amongst us who are still deprived of the rights that the rest of us enjoy. For many years now the Malta Gay Rights Movement (MGRM) has been campaigning for the rights of same-sex couples, to make violence against homosexuals a criminal offence, to address bullying against gays in schools, to prohibit discrimination in the delivery of goods and services on the grounds of sexual orientation, to extend the remit of the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality to cater for the grounds of sexual orientation and to include gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy for transgender persons as part of the public health services. Some of these battles have been won.

Malta Today: [WATCH] Gay rights march at Sliema attracts just 100 people

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Proudly-marching-for-gay-rights-in-Sliema-20120630
30 June 2012 - 12:43, Bianca Caruana

Just 100 persons, including political figures, take part in Gay Pride March calling for marriage equality and gender identity.

People gathering for the Gay Pride March Malta 2012 in Sliema
[More] Photos by Ray Attard/MediaToday

Calling for gender and marriage equality, just 100 persons participated in this morning’s Malta Gay Pride March in Sliema including Justice Minister Chris Said, Labour MP Owen Bonnici and Alternattiva Demokratika spokesperson Angele Deguara.

Di-ve: LGBT Pride March takes to Sliema

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30 June 2012

The annual LGBT Pride March was held for the first time in Sliema.

The march, which celebrates gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and other orientations, has been held annually in Malta since 2006, but this is the first time it has left the capital city.

“We chose Sliema because everyone is more open here,” David Debono from the Malta Gay Rights Movement told di-ve.com.

Times: Religion and culture

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120629/letters/Religion-and-culture.426442
Friday, June 29, 2012 by Olga Pitcairn, New Hope, Pennsylvania, US

The article Lessons In Multiculturalism rightly points out that trailblazers – of every imaginable topic (same-sex marriage?) – are always at risk of being spurned (vilified) or paying with their life. So far, Malta has only faced colour and culture issues.

Indonesia’s troubles are not colour but religion: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, Christianity and several indigenous religions. Each religion (Bali/Hinduism for example) created its own “culture”.

Times: Video: Colourful Gay Pride parade in Sliema

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120630/local/gay-pride-parade-in-sliema.426617
Saturday, June 30, 2012, 11:35

[Click here to watch the video].

The Malta Gay Rights Movement is this morning holding its annual Pride Parade, this time in Sliema.

About 150 people are taking part, marching behind a colourful arch made of balloons, and a corps of drums. Many of the participants are blowing whistles as they walk from Surfside towards St Anne Square.

PL: Mit-tolleranza għad-drittijiet – Joseph Muscat

http://www.partitlaburista.org/dart/20120628-mit-tolleranza-ghad-drittijiet-joseph-muscat
Il-Ħamis, 28 ta' Ġunju 2012, 21:08

Pajjiżna jrid jimxi mit-tolleranza għad-drittijiet, fejn l-għan li jmexxina ‘l quddiem ikun l-ugwaljanza. Biex nilħqu dan l-għan, irid ikun hemm Gvern li b’konvinzjoni jemmen fl-ugwaljanza. Gvern li b’konvinzjoni jifhem u jirrispetta l-imħabba bejn żewġ persuni u ma jippruvax jidħol fil-kamra tas-sodda tagħhom.