The largest human rights and cultural event in Finland, Helsinki Pride is being celebrated this week.
The City of Helsinki declared the Pride Peace for the second time on Monday, said the city in a press release.
To kick off Helsinki Pride Week, Pride Peace was declared throughout the city. Pride Peace, inspired by the Christmas Peace declaration in Turku, was declared at the pride tram by Mayor Daniel Sazonov and the Chair of the board of the Helsinki Pride Community Senni Moilanen.
“Helsinki wants to be a city where everyone can feel themself as part of the group and live a life that is true to themself. We work every day to promote gender equality and equity. Pride Week is a great way to show this,” said Helsinki Mayor Daniel Sazonov in the press release.
“Pride Peace comes into effect today. It protects the right of self-determination that applies to every one of us, the equality of all genders, the basic and human rights of everyone, family and sexual rights, children’s rights and the right of being proud of oneself,” said Senni Moilanen, the Chair of the board of the Helsinki Pride Community.
This year, the Helsinki Pride community especially wishes to highlight the migrants who are part of the LGBT+ family and to celebrate the diversity of their community with the theme ‘Pride knows no borders’.
Everyone has the right to freedom, pride and self-determination – regardless of their background, their language or what they have needed to leave behind.
Helsinki is a safe haven to many LGBT+ people moving in from abroad, who may come from places where diversity is not embraced the same way or where finding a community of peers is difficult.
As a city, Helsinki is visibly committed to promoting equality.
Helsinki is proudly promoting LGBT+ rights also internationally as part of the Rainbow Cities network.
The City joined this network in 2021, and was granted the honour of hosting the network's annual assembly just last year. The network includes almost 60 cities from more than 20 different countries around the world.
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
