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The Paraguayan LGBT Federation will organize on November, the First LGBT National Congress Paraguay 2010. With this first national LGBT congress, a process of strengthening of the bases of the activists in the interior of our country, creating spaces of exchange and learning that seek to empower the activists in the country.
The First LGBT Congress Paraguay 2010 opens a positive space for the discussion of the problems of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders through the topic of "Human Rights to LGBT persons in Paraguay: Let us guarantee the full citizenship of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT)". This Congress is a historic initiative for the LGBT population, to be heard and build political demands of mobilization towards diverse institutions of the government and civil society; therefore enabling the public debate that articulates the diverse sectors of the society.
The First LGBT Congress Paraguay 2010 consists of a series of debates, courses and talks to LGBT activists and representatives of each department. This year the aim is to cover and analyze the various necessities if the LGBT population like work, justice and public safety, the health and well being, sports and education; Creating tools to fight the violence, homophobia and discrimination against our community. Besides that, the Congress will initiate the discussion of specific demands of each segment that makes up the LGBT population in terms of public policies of the governments (central, departmental and municipal); reinforce the efforts, thoughts and actions towards the consolidation of the paraguayan Lay State, free of prejudice and orientated to the universal principles of the Letter of Human Rights.
As a result of this Congress there is a strive to the establishment of work lines of the Paraguayan LGBT Federation, that will guide its activities to guarantee to civil, social, economic and political rights for the LGBT population.
Those that are interested in signing up, can do so by sending an email with their contact info to comunicacion@somosgay.org or by visiting us at the SOMOSGAY CENTER (Manduvira 367 almost Chile, during office hours). Signing up and attending the Congress are totally free and there are limited spaces.
The First LGBT Congress Paraguay 2010 will meet activists from the country in the advance of the consolidation of a movement of social justice that supports the construction of a paraguayan society without exclusions.
