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Berlin is 
colourful

Canadian embassy collaborates with German partners to strengthen LGBT rights.

07.10.2016

Canada’s Ambassador to Germany pinned her colours 
to the mast: together with Berlin’s Mayor Michael Müller Marie Gervais-Vidricaire opened Christopher Street Day, and spoke up for the rights of LGBT people. Quoting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who 
attended the Toronto Pride parade, the ambassador said: “Everyone deserves to live free of stigma, persecution, and discrimination – no matter who they are or whom they love.” In the week prior to Christopher Street Day the embassy teamed up with 
the Dutch embassy to host a seminar on promoting equal rights for LGBT people globally in collabor­ation with Human Rights Watch, the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum, the Rainbow Group of the German Federal Foreign Office and the German foundations “Prout at Work” and the Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation.