Venue: Dolce, Hyatt Regency Birmingham (INSIDE the Secure Zone)
77 jurisdictions still criminalise homosexuality across the world with penalties lengthy prison sentences, or, in some cases, death. As well as being a violation of human rights, anti-LGBT laws have profound consequences for public health, public safety and even the economic development of the countries which criminalise.
As the UK seeks out new trading partners outside the European Union, what conditions must we include in our possible new trade agreements with economic powerhouses which still criminalise homosexuality such as India, Nigeria and Indonesia? How can the UK, as one of the leading donors to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, help ensure care is provided and HIV/AIDS prevention is delivered to men who have sex with men, in those countries where criminalisation drives gay men underground?
Should there be aid conditionality or does that increase persecution of LGBT people in those countries deprived of assistance? And could the UK’s commitment to global human rights possibly be downgraded when we need to focus on 2 years or more of Brexit negotiations?
Speakers:
Phillip Christopher Baldwin, LGBT rights activist
Téa Braun, Legal Director, Human Dignity Trust
Bernard Jenkin MP, Chair of House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee and former Shadow Defence
A sandwich lunch and wine will be served.
We are extremely grateful to Phillip Christopher Baldwin for sponsoring this event and making it possible.