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Also, we sent this letter to Andrew Mitchell MP, the UK Secretary of State for International Development asking for caution in the reasons given for cutting aids to poor countries in Africa and the Carribean.
JfGA members with DSG, Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba (middle)
For nearly 2 years, we have lobbied and pressured the Commonwealth Secretariat through direct protest, letters, phone calls, emails, and lastly meetings with the Human Rights Unit calling on the Secretary General to issue a public statement that the Commonwealth do not support homophobia.
In addition to other efforts both known to us and not, even before we started, our direct link and interaction is surely seen to have yielded results, though little. The Commonwealth agreed that JfGA is the first black-led LGBT group to sit round a table with them for this discussion.
Not that other groups have not tried but that the Commonwealth has been a cloggy machine. However, our action is aided by the fact that we are based in the UK. And this is what we want to achieve: to be the leg and mouth of our brave brothers and sisters in other Commonwealth country who has been fighting this struggle long before we came to be.
Finally, the Secretary General has publicly condemn homophobia and criminalisation and recently, met with us, represented by his Deputy, Ms Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba.
We have developed a relationship with the Human Rights Unit in the Secretariat to work with them towards establishing policies that would aid the Commonwealth support member-states towards decriminalisation.
Watch this space
Homosexuality is criminalised in over 40 Countries of the Commonwealth
Photo by Skye Chirape
