Amnesty Bermuda’s Nelleke Hollis said that a postcard campaign was launched in August at the international meeting of AI to amend Bermuda’s Human Rights Act to add sexual orientation. She said hundreds of signatures from fellow human right campaigners were gathered at the meeting, including those of Mr Salil Shetty, AI’s Secretary General and Ugandan gay activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, who won the 2011 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders.
The postcards should send a strong message to Premier Paula Cox and her Cabinet to stop dragging their heels on the long-awaited amendment.
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Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 