LGBT Groups Opposing the TPP because of Brunai

I hadn't thought about this. But it's one more good reason to oppose the TPP

Gay rights groups in the US have banded together to demand their Government stop Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations with Brunei, a nation New Zealand has already cosied up with.

The US is one of the nations looking at joining the TPP, an extension of the free trade agreement which already exists between New Zealand, Chile, Brunei and Singapore.

A number of US lgbti organisations have written a joint letter to President Obama demanding that the US cease further negotiations of the TPP free trade agreement with Brunei after that country enacted a strict new penal code that targets women, lgbt people, and religious minorities.

"Brunei's new laws are an affront to human rights and basic decency," says interim executive director of Pride at Work Jerame Davis.

"The United States, and every other nation considering doing business with Brunei, should immediately cease any negotiations or consideration for that country as a trading partner. Human rights abusers don't get preferential treatment."

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