{"id":2215,"date":"2015-11-08T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2015-11-08T07:34:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T13:34:36","slug":"ukraine-to-lose-eu-travel-agreement-by-reject-glbt-rights-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2215","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine to lose EU travel agreement by reject GLBT rights law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Ukraine may lose an agreement with the European Union that would allow its citizens visa-free travel within member nations because of the Ukraine&#8217;s rejection of a law that would have banned GLBT discrimination. This is widely seen as yet another battleground over the Ukraine&#8217;s divided population that has one faction wanting closer ties to the West and another wanting to be closer to the extremely anti-GLBT Russia. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/11\/06\/ukraine-to-lose-out-on-eu-travel-agreement-after-blocking-lgbt-rights-law\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The?Schengen zone?aims to bolster free trade across Europe, with 26 countries permitting?visa-free travel for citizens and abolishing the need for passports across European borders.<\/p>\n<p>However, Schengen membership is conditional based on a number of factors ? and the European Union has consistently maintained that Ukraine must legally ban discrimination against LGBT people before joining.<\/p>\n<p>The plan for Ukraine to join suffered a setback this week, when its Parliament overwhelmingly voted to block the LGBT rights changes required.<\/p>\n<p>Just 117 lawmakers voted for the changes, out of 450 in the Parliament<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The Ukraine may lose an agreement with the European Union that would allow its citizens visa-free travel within member nations because of the Ukraine&#8217;s rejection of a law that would have banned GLBT discrimination. This is widely seen as yet another battleground over the Ukraine&#8217;s divided population that has one faction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[458,457,96,68,456],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-eu","tag-lgbt-laws","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}