{"id":5623,"date":"2016-03-08T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wyden-merkley-introduce-legislation-to-impose-sanctions-on-foreign-individuals-responsible-for-violence-against-the-lgbt-community\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:09:43","slug":"wyden-merkley-introduce-legislation-to-impose-sanctions-on-foreign-individuals-responsible-for-violence-against-the-lgbt-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-introduce-legislation-to-impose-sanctions-on-foreign-individuals-responsible-for-violence-against-the-lgbt-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyden y Merkley presentan legislaci\u00f3n para imponer sanciones a personas extranjeras responsables de violencia contra la comunidad LGBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>Washington DC -<\/b><span class=\"s1\"> <\/span>Los senadores estadounidenses Ron Wyden y Jeff Merkley, junto con los senadores Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ed Markey (D-MA), Chris Murphy (D-CT) y Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), han presentado la Ley de Respeto Global. , legislaci\u00f3n que impondr\u00eda sanciones a personas extranjeras responsables de violaciones de derechos humanos contra personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transg\u00e9nero (LGBT) en el extranjero. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>\u201cLos derechos LGBT son derechos humanos fundamentales\u201d<\/b> dijo el senador Wyden. <b>\u201cEste proyecto de ley env\u00eda el mensaje de que Estados Unidos responsabilizar\u00e1 a las personas que las persigan bas\u00e1ndose en a qui\u00e9n aman o c\u00f3mo se identifican. Estados Unidos debe predicar con el ejemplo y garantizar que los derechos LGBT sigan siendo una parte importante de la pol\u00edtica estadounidense tanto en el pa\u00eds como en el extranjero\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>\u201cTodas las personas en todo el mundo deben ser tratadas con el respeto y la dignidad a que tienen derecho, sin importar a qui\u00e9n amen o d\u00f3nde vivan\u201d. <\/b>dijo Merkley.<b> &quot;Las personas LGBT no deber\u00edan vivir con miedo y esta legislaci\u00f3n enviar\u00e1 un mensaje a la comunidad global de que tomamos en serio las ofensas a los derechos humanos de las personas LGBT en todo el mundo&quot;. &nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">El representante David Cicilline (D-RI) present\u00f3 una legislaci\u00f3n similar en la C\u00e1mara de Representantes en respuesta a un informe de las Naciones Unidas que encontr\u00f3 que cada a\u00f1o se cometen miles de incidentes de violencia f\u00edsica contra personas LGBT.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>&quot;Si bien hemos visto un tremendo progreso hacia la igualdad en los Estados Unidos, el hecho es que la comunidad LGBT todav\u00eda est\u00e1 amenazada tanto aqu\u00ed en casa como en todo el mundo&quot;.<\/b> dijo Shaheen. <b>\u201cNadie deber\u00eda vivir con miedo a sufrir violencia f\u00edsica u opresi\u00f3n debido a su orientaci\u00f3n o identidad sexual. La Ley de Respeto Global enviar\u00eda un mensaje contundente a la comunidad internacional y una severa advertencia a quienes persiguen a las personas LGBT de que Estados Unidos seguir\u00e1 defendiendo los derechos humanos\u201d.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>&quot;Para que Estados Unidos sea fiel a nuestro compromiso de defender los derechos humanos de todas las personas en todo el mundo, debemos apoyar a la comunidad LGBT en su lucha por el reconocimiento y la igualdad en todas partes&quot;.<\/b> dijo Markey. <b>&quot;Con los derechos de la comunidad LGBT bajo ataque en todo el mundo, debemos estar de la mano con ellos en la lucha para garantizar la igualdad para todas las personas en todo el mundo&quot;.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Actualmente hay 75 pa\u00edses que penalizan las relaciones consensuales entre personas del mismo sexo, y en diez pa\u00edses las relaciones consensuales entre personas del mismo sexo se castigan incluso con la muerte. Varios pa\u00edses, incluida Rusia, han instituido o propuesto recientemente leyes que proh\u00edben la \u201cpropaganda LGBT\u201d, un t\u00e9rmino vago que se ha interpretado en el sentido de cualquier declaraci\u00f3n p\u00fablica en apoyo de los derechos LGBT o de las personas LGBT. La Ley de Respeto Global:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li>Exigir al Poder Ejecutivo que env\u00ede cada dos a\u00f1os al Congreso una lista de personas extranjeras responsables, c\u00f3mplices o que hayan incitado a ejecuciones extrajudiciales, torturas u otras violaciones graves de los derechos humanos basadas en la orientaci\u00f3n sexual o la identidad de g\u00e9nero;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Negar o revocar visas a personas incluidas en la lista;<\/li>\n<li>Exigir que el Informe anual del Departamento de Estado sobre Derechos Humanos incluya una secci\u00f3n sobre derechos humanos internacionales LGBT, as\u00ed como un informe anual al Congreso sobre el estado de efectividad de la ley; y<\/li>\n<li>Exigir que el Subsecretario de Estado para Democracia, Derechos Humanos y Trabajo designe un puesto de personal responsable de rastrear la violencia, la criminalizaci\u00f3n y las restricciones al disfrute de las libertades fundamentales en pa\u00edses extranjeros basadas en la orientaci\u00f3n sexual o la identidad de g\u00e9nero.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC &ndash; U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, along with Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ed Markey (D-MA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), have introduced the Global Respect Act, legislation that would impose sanctions on foreign individuals responsible for human rights violations against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals abroad. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-5623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-civil-rights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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