(16 Apr 2008)
1. Protesters shouting at police who try to push them back
2. Protesters scuffling with police as they are driven back
3. Woman waving rainbow flag at police, one officer snatches flag from her
4. Rows of police walking up street as protesters retreat
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ruth Ramos, activist
"What the Women's Commission and the Commission of Foreign Relations (a commission set up by congress to study contents of the Iberoamerican Convention for the Rights of Youth) are showing is simply discrimination toward us, the homosexual youth, the lesbian youth, the transvestite youth. To that end, they would approve a convention that violates the human rights of the youth, and that is why we are energetically protesting today."
6.. Various of homosexual protesters washing gay flags and Peruvian flags as a symbol for washing away discrimination
7. Various of activists wearing horns on their heads and mini-skirts washing flags
8. Various of press and police surrounding protesters
9. Back view of police surrounding protest
STORYLINE
Police clashed with members of Peru's gay and lesbian movement on Tuesday during a protest against discrimination held in front of the congress building in Lima.
Approximately 20 protesters marched before the country's legislative headquarters carrying Peruvian flags as well as multicoloured gay flags, which they washed in water buckets as an act meant to symbolise the end of discrimination against the gay community.
The clashes broke out when police tried to move the protesters away from the congress building.
Ruth Ramos, a representative of the Homosexual Movement said they were protesting because the Peruvian Congress, which has been considering whether to approve the Iberoamerican Convention for the Rights of Youth, expressed reservations regarding three of articles in the document.
Ramos said the three articles in question are the ones which guarantee the rights of lesbian, gay and transsexual youths.
"What the Women's Commission and the Commission of Foreign Relations are showing is simply discrimination toward us, the homosexual youth, the lesbian youth, the transvestite youth," she told AP Television.
The Iberoamerican Convention for the Rights of Youth is an international human rights treaty signed in 2005 and which is applied to the 22 nations which make up the Iberoamerican community.
It is a binding agreement which stipulates that the states implement the rights laid out in the convention.
It benefits youth of 15 to 24 years of age.
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