MGRM: MGRM response to the Embryo Protection Act

PRESS STATEMENT, Malta Gay Rights Movement, 31/07/2012

The Malta Gay Rights Movement holds the Embryo Protection Act to be blatantly discriminatory on the basis of sexual orientation and is inherently homophobic in nature. It believes that by excluding same sex couples and single persons from its definition of prospective parents the Act goes against basic human rights principles such as the right to found a family.

Times: Patients who are winning the battle against HIV virus

Gene therapy builds optimism for future Aids treatment, conference is told 
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120728/world/Patients-who-are-winning-the-battle-against-HIV-virus.430428
Saturday, July 28, 2012 Kerry Sheridan and Jean-Louis Santini

Small but significant breakthrough studies on people who have been able to overcome or control HIV were presented on Thursday at a major world conference on ways to stem the 30-year-old disease.

One study focused on a group of 12 patients in France who began treatment on antiretroviral drugs within 10 weeks of becoming infected with human immuno­deficiency virus, but then stopped the therapy after nearly three years.

It-Torċa: Il-politiċi għandhom jgħidulna dwar il-ħajja sesswali tagħhom

29.7.12 [Dan l-artiklu mhux fuq is-sit tat-Torċa s'issa iżda tista' tarah hawn.]

Fr Colin,

• Nixtieqek tieħu pożizzjoni pubblika dwar dawk il-politiċi li jaħbu l-fatt li huma omosesswali. Aħna, bħala dawk li ntellgħuhom fil-Parlament, għandna kull dritt li nkunu nafu x’inhi l-ħajja tagħhom u kif jgħixu s-sesswalità tagħhom li tista’ tinfluwenza l-mod kif jivvutaw fil-Parlament.

Mintoff Decriminalises Homosexuality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oafmo3Gdij0


Ara l-ittra pastorali tal-Arċisqof Gonzi hawn:
http://patrickattard.blogspot.com/2009/03/lehen-is-sewwa-1972-ittra-pastorali.html

INews Malta: Il-każ Joanne Cassar b'impatt fl-Ewropa u lil hinn

http://www.inewsmalta.com/dart/20120726-il-ka-joanne-cassar-impatt-fl-ewropa-lil-hinn
09:53 | 27.07.2012

Il-każ ta’ Joanne Cassar, persuna transgender li l-istat Malti rrifjutalha d-dritt li tiżżewweġ se jkun deċiż mill-Qorti Ewropea għad-Drittijiet tal-Bniedem iktar tard din is-sena. Anke jekk għad mhijiex stabilità d-data meta se jinstema l-każ fil-midja internazzjonali u fost dawk li jsegwu mill-qrib każi marbuta mad-drittijiet tal-bniedem, id-diskussjoni dwaru diġà bdiet.

WND: 'Transgender Marriage' Up Next?

http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/transgender-marriage-up-next/
WND EXCLUSIVE
Court of Human Rights asked to halt 'social engineering'
Published: 25.7.2012

By Alex Newman

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – A crucial case on marriage and family set to be heard by the European Court of Human Rights offers the increasingly controversial institution a chance to undo an error committed a decade ago and stop what Malta’s high court called “social engineering,” according to the European Center for Law and Justice.

Experts say even the U.S., embroiled in its own battle over same-sex marriage, could be affected by the ruling.

Times: A testing time for Parliament

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120722/local/A-testing-time-for-Parliament.429535
Sunday, July 22, 2012 by Kurt Sansone

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi with Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando on the campaign trail in 2008 in Mosta.

With Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando now an independent MP, Parliament’s composition and dynamics of lawmaking have changed. Kurt Sansone reports.

Times: Pullicino Orlando wants details of Bill - Call for information about the key Bills

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120721/local/Pullicino-Orlando-wants-details-of-Bill.429486
Saturday, July 21, 2012 by Kurt Sansone

Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando wants to see the details of the Cohabitation Bill as he starts setting the terms for his collaboration with the government.

The newly-independent MP, who resigned from the Nationalist Party on Thursday, said yesterday the cohabitation and embryo protection Bills were notable items on his agenda.

NCPE: NCPE with an extended remit / L-NCPE b’mandat estiż

National Commission for the Promotion of Equality (NCPE) PRESS RELEASE:
16.7.2012

The promotion of equality on the basis of sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, racial or ethnic origin, and gender identity in employment, financial institutions and education is now an area covered by the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality (NCPE). The remit of NCPE was extended following amendments to Chapter 456 Equality for Men and Women Act recently approved in Parliament.

Independent: Go ahead, Franco. Vote against it

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=149110
12 August 2012  by Daphne Caruana Galizia

Franco Debono says he will vote against the Cohabitation Bill if the Nationalist Party does not allow him to stand on its ticket in the upcoming general election.

Good. I am totally against this bill and have been since the start. Of course, I would have preferred it had Debono decided to vote against it on principle or because he disagrees with its provisions, and not because he has the mentality of somebody raised in a hamlet in the Sicilian hinterland and who considers threats and blackmail to be so normal and acceptable that he uses them openly. And we would all have been happier if we didn’t have members of parliament who say, as Debono did, that he is thinking of voting against the Bill “without even knowing what is in it”, which is frightening especially when it comes from somebody who bangs on relentlessly about the deficiencies in other people’s democratic thinking.