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Jun 30, 2007
Quickie Link: Rights Watchdog Criticizes Polish leaders' Rhetoric on Gays
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By vanrozenheim
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The top European human rights watchdog criticized Polish leaders for anti-homosexual rhetoric Friday. "I think we should remember that one of the groups that were targeted by the Nazis were homosexuals, and we should really avoid to fall into that trap now," said Council of Europe human rights commissioner Thomas Hammarberg. Hammarberg was in the Polish capital to present a report on Poland's human rights performance to Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and to encourage Warsaw to do more on a number of issues, including overcrowded prisons and slow legal procedures. Poland's Education Minister Roman Giertych and members of his ministry are preparing a new law that would ban what they call "homosexual propaganda" in schools in order to protect traditional family values.
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