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IRISH TRANSGENDER WOMAN Lydia Foy has been shortlisted for ‘Campaigner of the Year’ at the prestigious European Diversity Awards in London.
Foy is one of eight nominees for the award which its organisers say, “celebrates organisations and individuals that have shown innovation, creativity and commitment to equality”.
Senator David Norris has also been nominated for the award for his long standing struggle for gay and lesbian rights in Ireland.
In October 2007 Foy won a High Court case when the court ruled that her rights under the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated by the failure to recognise her in her female gender. Michael Farrell of the Free Legal Advice Centre said that Foy’s nomination is a mark of her 20 years of campaigning:
It is also a rebuke to successive Irish governments which have failed to introduce legislation to recognise transgender persons ever since the European Court of Human Rights held that this was a basic human right in 2002.
“Ireland is now the only state in the European Union that has no provision for legal recognition of transgender persons”, he added.
Last year’s winner of Campaigner of the Year was Doreen Lawrence, mother of black teenager Stephen Lawrence who was murdered on London in 1993.
The winner and a runner-up will be announced at a gala dinner in London on 26 September.
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Its good to see this happen. Serbia was most definitely a horrible monster is this war but to leave the other sides off without any accountability is in my view wrong. Its also important to recognise Europe’s impotence in dealing with this war & the fact that a European power was responsible for Srebrenica is something that should also be recognised & that it was the US intervention that protected the Muslim enclave in the former Yugoslavia & the US never got one bit of gratitude for it. The US has done many bad things but Muslims in this part of the world would not exist but for its actions.
@Mjhint: Yes US airforce intervention from President Clinton saved the Muslims in Saravoja…..Croatia is in EU and soon in Euro but never gets blamed for expulsion of 600000 ethnic Serbs from Croatia to Serbia over a few weeks in 1992….
@John003: It was operation Storm in 1995
@Mjhint: other sides have not been let off – Bosnian Croat who killed himself in The Hague! Many people from all sides have been prosecuted by ICTY but will now be done on home ground as ICTY is finishing this year. After my time there I would question any real justice being done on home ground.
@John003: Serbia is on its way, even when it does it’s best to mess with BiHs chances through its dealings in the RS
That’s progress. Many people had called it all a one handed deal lately so any levelling is good.
On the subject, they should keep this court busy with returning Jihadis from Syria and Iraq instead of giving them nice warm homes, flannel pyjamas, cocoa, bedtime story and hugs. The whole story of the Yazidis and others seems to be in the laundry.
@Patrick J. O’Rourke: How about sending your DUP buddies there for crimes against humanity and fashion.
@Patrick J. O’Rourke: Some details. If they ignore it then the credibility of the ICC should go down the pan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Yazidis_by_ISIL
A dirty war with horrific atrocities perpetrated by all sides.
Hopefully all those personally involved in war crimes will be held accountable.
The nature of their crime should be branded on their foreheads.
They will play the victim card giving to them by the liberal left, do gooders ´,SJW PC open border gang.
Good to see
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