{"id":5936,"date":"2015-03-04T22:53:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T22:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soros.kz\/sfk_statement\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T10:11:51","slug":"sfk_statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/sfk_statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of the Soros Foundation Kazakhstan with regard to the passed Law \u00abOn the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"leftColumn\">\n<div id=\"structPageContent\">\n<div class=\"published\">Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan expresses its concerns with regard to the Law \u00abOn the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development\u00bb passed by the Senate (the upper house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"published\">\n<div id=\"fullText\">\n<p>In our view, the most recent amendments to this Law include norms which limit freedom of speech and expression as well as discriminate and discredit citizens on the basis of their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Kazakhstan has declared itself a democratic and constitutional state, which respects and guarantees human rights and freedoms and prohibits discrimination of its citizens on all grounds, including their sexual orientation and gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>Soros Foundation Kazakhstan appeals to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as a guarantor of the Constitution and of human and civil rights and freedoms, with the request to reject this law and return it to the Parliament for further consultations with civil society organizations and revision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"rightColumn\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan expresses its concerns with regard to the Law \u00abOn the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development\u00bb passed by the Senate (the upper house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}