Poroshenko was demanded to add “language and rules” to the law on gender discrimination
The Verkhovna Rada adopted as a basis bill No. 3427 on amendments to the law on advertising to combat gender discrimination.
The initiative was supported in the first reading by 266 out of 357 votes, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Presenting the draft law “On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On Advertising” regarding combating discrimination based on gender,” Servant of the People deputy Marina Bardina invited her colleagues to independently familiarize themselves online with what “discriminatory advertising” is so that they don’t repeat it. broadcast.
“Over the last period, the State Food and Consumer Service has registered about 390 cases where consideration of complaints about discriminatory advertising began, although, in reality, more comments come to the State Food and Consumer Service. We are talking about the possibility of responding to discriminatory advertising, because as of today, judges do not have sufficient grounds to make such decisions, although the current legislation partially spells out restrictions, but there are no mechanisms... The practice of countering discrimination in advertising exists in a number of countries - Britain, Finland, Spain, Poland, so Ukraine is not reinventing the wheel here,” Bardina said.
In turn, Eurosolidarity deputy Nikolai Knyazhitsky considered the bill insufficiently comprehensive and made a proposal from his faction.
“The law is called “on gender discrimination,” but in fact, in general, it introduces the term “discriminatory advertising” and says that this applies to political, religious, and other beliefs, gender, citizenship, including linguistic characteristics or groups of persons . If discriminatory advertising based on gender is defined in this bill, then other types of discriminatory advertising are not provided with definitions, but this must be done, because the law is not only about gender...
This law needs to be brought into line with the law “on the principles of preventing discrimination.” We have such a bill, but this one and the topic of responsibility in that law and this one do not correspond in any way,” Knyazhytsky said and demanded a significant revision of the law for the second reading, despite the fact that his faction “ideologically supports” the initiative itself.
“Let’s support gender equality,” called on First Deputy Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk.
266 deputies voted for the bill, of which 191 votes were from “Servant of the People”, 22 from “Eurosolidarity”, 18 from “Dovira”, 16 from “Voices” and 2 from OPZZH.
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