Paula Gioia

Article first published by Right to Food and Nutrition Watch

In the current global context, discrimination is used as a tool to preserve and support authoritarian and far-right political movements. Immigrants and refugees are denied their legal right to asylum, human rights defenders are murdered, and civil society is criminalized with complete impunity.

“[E]nding discrimination based on gender and sexuality is not any less important than the struggle for fair prices for agriculture products or for land. Instead, the rights of LGBTIQ persons are also part of the struggle for justice and dignity.”

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