Love Without Borders is an NUS LGBT campaign that aims to promote LGBT human rights around the World.

This year in association with Human Rights Day 2009 the LGBT Society are running a one day campaign based upon the Love Without Borders theme.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans people in the UK have won many rights over the past few
years, and our lives have changed dramatically as a result. We have a legal system that supports
our right to be who we are, and express our love. But around the world, many LGBT do not share
our rights. Instead, they are criminalised, persecuted, imprisoned and even murdered by their
own governments, just because of who they are, and who they love. Their governments not only
ignore their human right to protection from attacks, but actively sponsor them.
We must use our rights to fight for the rights of those who can’t fight for them themselves.

This campaign will give you opportunities to make links with LGBT students and others who
live their lives under very different conditions from our own. It will allow your student society to
play an important part in something much bigger – the international LGBT rights movement.
The campaign pack includes examples of times when LGBT student societies and individuals
have made a positive impact on the lives of LGBT people in other countries.

We live in a global community and no longer can we stand by while the suffering continues.

We can, and must, make a difference for LGBT human rights worldwide.

For more information on Human Rights Day 2009 at Essex University please visit their Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=688196&id=284300339#/group.php?gid=318989155704

The Results….

Today was a massive success! We collected over 300 signatures in support of LGBT Human Rights in Uganda and raised awareness of what is happening to the Ugandan LGBT community. These petitions along with a letter of protest from students here at Essex will be sent to the Ugandan Embassy in London, the UK Embassy and to politicians around the World who openly supported the Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill.