MORE RIGHTS FOR MINORITIES IN SOUTH AMERICA
Nowadays, South America is a categorically
advanced region in terms of both human rights and rights for minorities… If we
establish a comparison with other parts of the world, we can say that in South
American countries the sense of social welfare has prevailed and the
politicians governing during the last two decades have guaranteed lots of rights
to people who have been historically pushed into the background. That is the
case of the groups of young people who had decided to fight against Pinochet’s
dictatorship in Chile and were killed, or the case of a Colombian homosexual
couple who have never had the opportunity to get married because the laws in
that country did not allow it. However, in the last years, Argentina, Chile and
Peru have been judging the military forces which ended up with thousands of
lives during the simultaneous dictatorships which took place in the seventies.
Then, Argentina and Colombia became pioneers in homosexual rights as soon as
the respective senates in each country passed the laws which allowed same-sex
marriages. Now, Bolivia is the one that comes up with this fortunately contagious
idea of establishing genre equality.
Although the final outcome is the
same in every country, it calls our attention how different the legislations in
the countries are… In Argentina, the project was proposed by a senator. But in
Bolivia, it was the Minister of Justice the one in charge of putting the topic
under discussion. Besides, Bolivia is a country which has evolved more than
Argentina in the last decades as regards rights for minorities. Distinct native
peoples have got laws which allow them to present political candidates in the
elections, to receive education in their aboriginal mother tongue and to eradicate
child labour with the help of the International Labour Organization (ILO). It is
useful to remark that more than 62% of the Bolivian population is native people,
a figure that means it is the country with the highest number of native
population in South America.
Definitely, the project that has
been recently proposed by the Bolivian Minister of Justice is an extremely
important law for the society we live nowadays since no one except you can
define who you are, what your sexual choices are and how you choose to feel
your sexuality. Imagine that you were told who to have sexual relations with
or, even worse, that the current legislations impede you to be with whoever you
want to. It is completely inherent to human nature the fact of conceiving our
sexuality according to how we feel with the other part that complements us. Thinking
about the near future, Bolivia has gone through a relevant step which can lead
to another project which involves same-sex marriage in the country. Imagine how
glad homosexual people will be if, apart from being accepted and recognized by
the State, they can get married with the person they love.
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