11.   This is evident in the position of the Human Rights Campaign, the gay rights lobby group.

12.   With the leadership seemingly lukewarm, some of the grassroots lobbying groups backed off encouraging their members to pressure their representatives.

13.   He also has received a delegation from the Cuban-American National Foundation, the most powerful anti-Castro lobbying group.

14.   Major groups nationwide that lobby for gay and lesbian rights are not backing the march, either.

15.   The amendments to the law drew sharp criticism from Michael Hamelin, president of the Alliance Quebec English-rights lobby group.

16.   According to lobby groups the official figures are often misleadingly low.

17.   No charges have been brought against the six whose civil and human rights are not being respected, said the Vienna-based lobby group in a statement.