“We are concerned that the former president of a country that is a vanguard in the world in terms of diversity minimizes the serious and cruel violation of the human rights of LGBT+ people living in Qatar, where our orientations and identities are criminalized with sentences up to jail. and physical assaults,” the organization said.
When asked about the strong questioning of the country organizing the World Cup for its violations of human rights, Macri minimized the homophobic and sexist legal system in which this state of affairs is validated, assuring that they are laws “that no longer apply.”
“There is a very high degree of homosexuality in Qatar, and they live there, I have been with several, and they have told me that they do not have any problems. They do not show off, they do not make an issue, but they live with absolute tranquility, nobody has any problem , nobody has any conflict,” said the former president in a recent television interview.
“There are many things written, historical, that have not changed them, but that no longer apply. That is the reality, they do not apply anymore. Technically they do not change them… there is a rule, I am wrong, they told me that It is still valid, that a father has the right to kill his daughter if he finds her losing her virginity. But it no longer applies, they are things that exist in history and they are evolving a lot, “he added.
Consensual sexual relations between adult men is a crime in Qatar and whoever engages in it can receive a sentence of up to five years in prison. Consensual sexual relations between adult women are also illegal in this country.
In addition, the right to a self-perceived gender identity is not legally recognized in the country that hosted the last World Cup, nor is marriage or civil union between people of the same sex recognized.
On the other hand, Qatar’s discriminatory male guardianship system denies women the right to autonomously make fundamental decisions about their lives such as getting married, studying abroad with government scholarships, accessing many government jobs, traveling abroad until a certain age and receive some forms of reproductive health care.
This discriminatory system also denies women the ability to serve as primary guardians for their sons and daughters.
“In Argentina we have achieved legal recognition of our equality. Even with difficulties and violations of rights, many times we express ourselves freely, a freedom that we claim, that we celebrate and that luckily we show off. So it should be all over the world. Without violence, without prison, without torture”, they said from the FALGBT+
“We hope that the former president apologizes for his statements. They express ignorance and discrimination, and can only shame a society that has decided to respect diversity,” they concluded.
