Simon Kajan | CitizenGO

Die Stadt Köln findet, dass eine Erinnerung an den Genozid an den Armeniern, Pontos-Griechen, Suryoye und Jesiden aufgrund des hohen Konfliktpotentials im öffentlichen Raum generell zu vermeiden sei. Deshalb ließ sie das von der Initiative „Völkermord erinnern“ aufgestellte Mahnmal entfernen. Wenn auch Sie finden, dass die Erinnerung an diesen schrecklichen Völkermord, dem von 1915 bis 1918 rund 1,5 Millionen Menschen zum Opfer fielen, sowie dessen Aufarbeitung dringend nötig sind, sollten Sie jetzt unsere Petition an Kölns Oberbürgermeisterin unterstützen: http://www.citizengo.org/de/sy/161092-koeln-genozid-mahnmal-muss-wieder-aufgestellt-werden

UNTERZEICHNEN

Eduard Pröls | CitizenGO

Die Bundeszentrale für Gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BzGA) wirbt für einen „offenen Umgang mit Sexualität“. Trotz (oder gerade wegen) der BzGA-Werbung, die für den „offenen Umgang mit Sex“ den Gebrauch von Kondomen anrät, steigen die Fälle von Infektionen bei den sexuell übertragbaren Krankheiten – offensichtlich bewirkt die Werbung der BzGA also genau das Gegenteil dessen, was sie angeblich erreichen soll. Es handelt sich nicht nur um eine fragwürdige Verschwendung von Steuergeldern, sondern auch um eine Gefährdung von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Dem muss ein Ende gesetzt werden! Fordern Sie jetzt Gesundheitsminister Spahn auf, die jugendgefährdende Sex-Werbung der BZgA zu stoppen: http://www.citizengo.org/de/ed/161454-jugendgefaehrdende-sex-werbung-der-bzga-stoppen

UNTERZEICHNEN

Eduard Pröls | CitizenGO

macht sich bei uns eine Bequemlichkeit breit, während vor unserer Haustür, in unserem Land und in der ganzen Welt stündlich Massenmord begangen wird?

Wir können nicht einfach zulassen, dass Tausende von Kinder sterben, noch bevor sie geboren werden.

Können Sie uns heute mit einer Spende von 15 EUR, 35 EUR oder 50 EUR helfen, damit wir unsere Aktionen für den Lebensschutz hier bei uns und in der ganzen Welt durchführen können?

https://go.citizengo.org/spende-fuer-das-leben

Wir müssen noch viel intensiver arbeiten, um den Stimmlosen Gehör zu verschaffen.

Vielen herzlichen Dank dafür, dass Sie da sind und helfen!

 Eduard Pröls und das gesamte Team von CitizenGO

Caroline Craddock | CitizenGO

I’m sure you’ve heard by now, but I must inform you that Alfie Evans passed away early Saturday morning.

After the hospital removed Alfie’s ventilation, Alfie managed to breathe on his own for a full five days before he tragically passed.

Alfie’s story made waves across the globe. CitizenGOers in Spain, Argentina, Germany, Poland, and Italy held vigils outside of British embassies and elsewhere in support of Alfie and his family. Nearly 300,000 CitizenGOers signed a petition in Alfie defense.

CitizenGOers outside the British Embassies in Poland and Austria

CitizenGOers outside the British Embassy in Spain

The parents of Charlie Gard (the baby who tragically died under similar circumstances last year), Chris Gard and Connie Yates, explained: „For those who have not been in a situation like this, it is impossible to understand the pain Tom and Kate [Alfie’s parents] are going through.“

When Charlie was ill and seeking treatment, Chris and Connie realized that cases like these would keep happening unless the law was changed. There is already a campaign under way, dubbed „Charlie’s Law.“ Although their proposal has not been released in detail, it appears to have two parts:

1. They want the law to give parents more weight in making „best interest“ decisions for their child over the whims of judges.

2. They want to improve mediation between parents and doctors, to create „a platform for transparency and openness so that cases like these can be dealt with before they ever reach the courts.“

Additionally, British MEP Stephen Woolfe has launched his own campaign, known as „Alfie’s Law.“ We hope these groups will combine to be even more effective in their efforts!

We’ll be keeping a close eye on these proposals. A change in the law is desperately needed. We cannot allow what happened to Alfie and Charlie to continue.

Alfie breathing without his ventilator a few days before he died.

What happened to Alfie and his family was wrong on two counts:

1. Alfie Evans‘ life was ended because of his disability. This is clear from the court judgement from Justice Hayden back in February (Alder Hey Hospital v. Evans).

According to the courts‘ interpretation of the Children Act of 1989, a life of permanent disability and dependency, whether long or short, is not worth living. The Justice Hayden „root(ed)“ his opinion in the ethical guidance of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, which asserts that, „it is no longer in the child’s best interests to continue (living)“ in those cases „where the severity of the child’s condition is such that it is difficult or impossible for them to derive benefit from continued life.“

In other words, because of his disability the court’s determined that Alfie’s life was not worth living. Therefore, it was declared illegal for his parents to keep him alive.

2. This euthanasia based judgement led to the further injustice that Alfie’s parents were no longer permitted to direct Alfie’s care as they saw fit. They were forbidden from taking him to another hospital in Italy that offered to provide him with care free of charge.

This is why a new law is needed. Our team in the UK will continue working to stop judial and medical teams from deciding that other people’s lives are not worth living.

Alfie and Charlie did not deserve to be treated like this, and neither did their families.

Thank you for all your support.

Yours sincerely,

Caroline Craddock, Greg Jackson, Peter Ainsworth and the entire CitizeGO Team

http://www.citizengo.org/es/160989-sos-nicaragua

Caroline Craddock | CitizenGo

My colleague in Croatia, Ana Marija, just sent me a shocking report about the undemocratic and dangerous ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Croatia.

Please read her report below and sign this important petition. The petition asks Croatia’s Prime Minister, Andrej Plenković, to stop the ratification of the Istanbul Convention.

http://www.citizengo.org/en-eu/fm/159547-stop-istanbul-convention-croatia-croatian-citizens-ask-your-help

International pressure to sign the convention has undoubtedly played a role in Plenković’s push to sign. We must show him that there is equal international pressure to not sign the convention… especially in such an undemocratic manner!

Voting on the ratification will happen on Friday, so please sign urgently!

Sincerely,

Caroline Craddock and the entire CitizenGO team

STOP the Undemocratic Ratification of the Istanbul Convention.  Croatia is facing the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. Its contraversial parts include gender ideology and the supervisory body GREVIO, which has been given too much authority. These represent a loss of state sovereignty in a legislative, executive, and financial sense. Please sign this petition to the Prime Minister of Croatia to ask that he STOP the ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Croatia. http://www.citizengo.org/en-eu/fm/159547-stop-istanbul-convention-croatia-croatian-citizens-ask-your-help SIGN NOW

On Friday, April 13th, the Croatian government will vote on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention (IC), the International Treaty of the Council of Europe for the Prevention and Combating of Violence against Women and Family Violence. The IC is the first international document that distinguishes gender as a “social construct,” apart from biological sex (Article 4, paragraph 3 of IC), and assumes that gender and its social dimension are two separate and unrelated realities. The IC, under the guise of fighting for the protection of women and children, imposes gender ideology on the states that have ratified it. The fact is that the ILGA (International Lesbian and Gay Alliance), the largest international LGBT organization in Europe, actively participated in the ratification of the IC, and their submission is officially listed as one of four contributors to the creation of the IC content.

Once the Convention has been ratified, the Croatian Government has no authority to influence the “Independent Body Responsible for Monitoring the Implementation of Istanbul Convention” (otherwise known as GREVIO – Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence). GREVIO is above the law and the state constitution. It is financed by state money, but the State has no supervision or influence on it. GREVIO monitors and influences government and educational politics. GREVIO also determines which NGOs to support in supervising the implementation of IC – the Government has no influence on this.

Sign the petition: 

http://www.citizengo.org/en-eu/fm/159547-stop-istanbul-convention-croatia-croatian-citizens-ask-your-help

The ratification of the IC limits the role of parents in child rearing and education, introduces scientifically bogus ideas about gender ideology into the education system, and endangers freedom of religion because of its intolerance towards religious communities that think differently from gender ideology.

During a public hearing announced by the Croatian Ministry of Family and Demography, it was revealed that 80% of civil society organizations and individuals involved were against the ratification of the IC. Despite this, the Croatian Government, headed by a Prime Minister from a supposedly the right-wing party HDZ (Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica – Croatian Democratic Community), has decided to continue with the ratification of the IC, contrary to the will of its own citizens.

The discussion of the IC within the largest Croatian party has revealed the party is truly undemocratic.

The Prime Minister has warned those who opposed ratification that they will lose their political positions. For example, after the political party secretary stated he is against ratification of the IC, he was asked to resign from his position.

The Prime Minister also stated publicly that people who are criticizing the IC don’t know how to read!

Sign the petition: 

http://www.citizengo.org/en-eu/fm/159547-stop-istanbul-convention-croatia-croatian-citizens-ask-your-help

In addition, in 2016 the HDZ party stated they are against the imposition of any ideology. Presumably that also means gender ideology. Yet today, the party leaders, headed by the Prime Minister, ruthlessly impose gender ideology against the will of the voters who have put their confidence in them.

At the same time, Croatian media are portraying opponents of the ratification of the Istanbul Convention as opponents of protecting children and women from violence. The BBC has been broadcasting a protest march against the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, involving more than 50,000 people, writing that thousands of Croatians participated in the protest. They said „that polls suggest that two-thirds of Croatians support the convention“. In fact, this phone survey commissioned by the Government of the Republic of Croatia involved only 606 respondents, and only 31.9% of them supported the convention in full.

At the same time, more than 50,000 Croatians went to the main square of the Croatian capital Zagreb to show their dissatisfaction with the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. More than 33,000 of them signed a CitizenGO petition seeking more effective enforcement of laws protecting women and children from violence rather than ratifying the IC.

Today there will be another protest gathering in Split, the second largest city in Croatia.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković tried to falsely assure Croatian citizens that the Government interpretation of the IC will prevent introduction of gender ideology into the education system or the financing of civil society associations. The truth is that the interpretative statement has no legal effect, nor can it prevent the arbitrary supervision of the GREVIO Commission.

The protests of numerous citizens, associations, and HDZ party members have not stopped the continued undemocratic behavior of the Croatian government. Some of the founders of the party came from the HDZ party because of Prime Minister Plenković is forcing members to accept the IC and impose gender ideology.

Please sign this petition to the Prime Minister of Croatia asking that he STOP the ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Croatia.

Sign the petition: 

http://www.citizengo.org/en-eu/fm/159547-stop-istanbul-convention-croatia-croatian-citizens-ask-your-help