Global gay community has been outraged by Nigeria’s bringing into force the same-sex marriage prohobition law. Homosexuals from all over the world are allegedly mobilising to protest the develpoment.
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- Write polite letters to the President of Nigeria expressing your thoughts and explain what being gay really means (…) (no more than 600 words).
- Organize protests at Nigerian Consulates and Embassies.
- Write to the Nigerian Ambassador/ consuls/ President in Nigeria/ in your country – here is an example: (…)
The World is shocked at the passage of Nigeria’s inhumane and horrific “Jail The Gays” law that your President just signed into law.
It is important to note that the laws you have passed against LGBT Nigerians and visitors are based on lies and myths about homosexuality, are unconstitutional and contrary to the International Declaration of Human Rights.
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We will be protesting your embassies and calling for widespread boycotts against Nigerian tourism, exports, imports and all business.
If Nigeria justifies this bad law proclaiming its sovereignty, then it will choose isolation. However Nigeria cannot participate in a global context if it cannot respect one of the most basic fundamental human rights and that is the right to love any person of one’s choice, whether that person is of the same or a different gender.
Anti-Homosexuality laws condemn love that is naturally felt to the people you seek to criminalize. The issues you purport to base your law upon are separate issues and ought to fall under the laws already in place which protect all people from sex without consent.
Melanie Nathan.
LGBT Protection Coalitions, Worldwide.
Note: Nigeria maintains an embassy in the United States at 3519 International Place, NW, Washington, DC 20008, (tel: 202-986-8400).
4. Start to Boycott all things Nigerian –
to include travel, tourism, industry, exports and imports. Call
companies that conduct safaris in Nigeria expressing the danger and your
anger (politely) at the support of Nigeria.
5. Call upon your employer to speak out
against the Jail the Gays Bill, especially if you work for a large
Hotel, Airline, Bank etc. Chain that operates in or does business with
Nigeria.
6. Write a letter to President Obama, or
copy him on the Letter you sent in Number 1, above. Also Copy and call
your member of Congress/ Senators or your political representatives and
ask if they are aware of this and what they plan to do about it? Suggest
that they take note of the Asylum laws for LGBT people and that they
participate in reform that will be advocated for by PCI Justice
7. Call your local or national LGBT
organizations (the ones that send you requests for donations) and ask
them what they are doing to help protest this Bill? Ask if they would be
willing to join a coalition of International LGBT groups to ensure a
massive outcry and if so to write to protectlgbt@gmail.com
STATE DEPARTMENT: Call the U.S. State Department and ask them if they
are willing to make special humanitarian considerations for Nigeria’s
LGBT community. Ask them what Secretary Kerry is planning to do beyond
mere words. Contact the U.S. Ambassador in Nigeria, James F. Entwistle,
and ask what his Embassy is doing to help Nigerian gays get out of
Nigeria. Tell the State Department and your member of Congress that we
want Nigerian lawmakers banned from entering the U.S.A. Also I am sure
that the State department will soon update their Travel Advisory to a
severe WARNING for LGBT people traveling to Nigeria.
8. Also note: Assistant Secretary Linda
Thomas-Greenfield leads the Department of State’s Bureau of African
Affairs, the division in the Department focused on the development and
management of U.S. policy concerning the continent.
FYI – Ambassador Samantha Power Urges Nigeria Civil Society to Remain
Steadfast for Democracy The United States’ Permanent Representative to
the United Nations and member of President Obama’s cabinet, Ambassador
Samantha Power, visited Nigeria on Wednesday, December 18, 2013. She met
with President Goodluck Jonathan and other government officials, as
well as civil society leaders.
9. Call your Mayors office/ City Councils /
Human Rights Commissions and ask for a Proclamation to Condemn the
Nigerian law and request that all City dealings exclude business with
Nigeria.
10. Join LGBT Protection Coalition,
Worldwide, by sending your name and email address to
protectlgbt@gmail.com – you will be given updates about protests and
actions.
Why do you think the world is so hostile about this particular decicion to ban same-sex relationships in Nigeria? Reacting to the news, the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that “people everywhere deserve to live in freedom and equality. No one should face violence or discrimination for who they are or who they love.” Do you agree with that, or should our preferences be more traditional?
