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<\/a>\u00a0homophobia shows, 8% of the members considers violence directed at LGBT\u2019s justified because of their sexual orientation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n Despite the controversy, AEGEE-Europe acknowledges the importance of equality for LGBT\u2019s. Therefore it decided to make homophobia one of its policy fields for 2012\/2013 within the larger policy field of Social Inclusion. For above all, LGBT\u2019s should be able to live a free life,\u00a0not being encountered by a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward them.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Plan of Action<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n It is important to get the conversation started<\/span><\/span>\u2013 <\/span>within AEGEE and with the world around us. This should be achieved through a survey, (online) discussions and cooperation with locals and working groups. The message of the network, emerging from the aforementioned actions, should be communicated to policy-makers by the means of a position paper, and civil society through campaigns. As Policy Officer my goal for this term is twofold. I both want to capture the opinion of AEGEE, share this with policy-makers, and<\/em> change the mindset within AEGEE in order to make the organisation inclusive towards LGBT\u2019s. Your help is necessary. Please share your opinion by contacting me at […]<\/span>, and participate in the discussion by joining<\/em> QUEER-L or one of the online consultations. Let\u2019s change minds!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Written for the NetCom Times by: E.G., Policy Officer on Social Inclusion – Homophobia<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) topic is one of much controversy. In a world in which LGBT\u2019s can marry in only eleven countries, there is still much to be done for equality in this field. Even within AEGEE, as the survey on\u00a0homophobia shows, 8% of the members considers violence directed at LGBT\u2019s justified because of their sexual orientation. Despite… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":16404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[701,426,719,483,774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16399"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38185,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions\/38185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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