NEW YORK (31 October 2022) – Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse (LGBT) persons are facg differentiated and disproportnate impact armed nflict suatns, a UN human rights expert told the General Assembly.
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- STAND UP FOR EQUAL RIGHTS & FAIR TREATMENT FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BI, TRANS & INTERSEX PEOPLE EVERYWHERE…
- UN ISSU FIRST REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS OF GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE
STAND UP FOR EQUAL RIGHTS & FAIR TREATMENT FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BI, TRANS & INTERSEX PEOPLE EVERYWHERE…
Stand up for equal rights & fair treatment for lbian, gay, bi, trans & tersex people everywhere. * un and lgbt *
To ci wh the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, marked on 17 May, Leyla told her story to Begum Basaran, a munitns assistant wh IOM Turkey. That’s acrdg to Jtice Edw Cameron, appoted by Nelson Manla as the first openly gay Judge on South Ai’s Constutnal Court, and wily seen as a hero for his fight to end all forms of equaly and excln. FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BI, TRANS & INTERSEX PEOPLE EVERYWHERE.
STAND UP FOR EQUAL RIGHTS & FAIR TREATMENT FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BI, TRANS & INTERSEX PEOPLE EVERYWHERE…. UN issu first report on human rights of gay and lbian people. The first ever Uned Natns report on the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people tails how around the world people are killed or endure hate-motivated vlence, torture, tentn, crimalizatn and discrimatn jobs, health re and tn bee of their real or perceived sexual orientatn or genr inty.
UN ISSU FIRST REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS OF GAY AND LBIAN PEOPLE
The first ever UN report on the human rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people tails how people are killed or endure hate-motivated vlence, torture, tentn, crimalizatn and discrimatn bee of their real or perceived sexual orientatn or genr inty. | * un and lgbt *
Homophobic and transphobic vlence has been rerd every regn of the world, the report fds, and rang om murr, kidnappgs, asslts and rap to psychologil threats and arbrary privatns of liberty. “Vlence agast LGBT persons tends to be pecially vic pared to other bias-motivated crim, ” the report not, cg data ditg that homophobic hate crim often clu “a high gree of celty and btaly.
In the report, Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissner for Human Rights, lls on untri to repeal laws that crimalize homosexualy, abolish the ath penalty for offenc volvg nsensual sexual relatns, harmonize the age of nsent for heterosexual and homosexual nduct, and enact prehensive anti-discrimatn laws. Public rmatn mpaigns should be troduced, pecially schools, to unter homophobia, and police and law enforcement officials should also receive trag to ensure LGBT people are treated appropriately and fairly.
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Charl Radcliffe, the chief of OHCHR’s global issu sectn, told UN Rad that “one of the thgs we found is if the law sentially reflects homophobic sentiment, then legimiz homophobia society at large. He strsed that all UN Member Stat have an obligatn unr ternatnal human rights law to crimalize homosexualy, addg was important to persua rather than lecture Stat to change their laws.
Some 30 untri have crimalized homosexualy the last two s or so. NEW YORK (31 October 2022) – Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse (LGBT) persons are facg differentiated and disproportnate impact armed nflict suatns, a UN human rights expert told the General Assembly.
In his latt report to the Council, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the Inpennt Expert on protectn agast vlence and discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty (SOGI), prents an overview of the health-related harms flicted on lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and other genr diverse persons, and tersex persons (LGBTI). Human RightsMakg homosexualy punishable by ath is an egreg vlatn of human rights, pennt UN Human Rights Council-appoted experts said on Wednday, urgg Uganda’s print to veto new laws approved by parliament this month, which further crimalise people intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT), and those who fend them. ‘Serial homosexualy’.
Makg homosexualy punishable by ath is an egreg vlatn of human rights, pennt UN Human Rights Council-appoted experts said on Wednday, urgg Uganda’s print to veto new laws approved by parliament this month, which further crimalise people intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT), and those who fend them. | * un and lgbt *
“The imposn of the ath penalty for same-sex timacy – cludg so-lled ‘serial homosexualy’ – is an egreg vlatn of human rights, ” the UN experts said.
The noted that they have repeatedly raised ser ncerns about latg risks to the human rights of LGBT persons Uganda durg the last 15 years, cludg when other eratns of so-lled “anti-homosexualy” laws were proposed 2009, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * un and lgbt *
Gay men?
An pennt UN human rights expert on Tuday warned that the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr diverse (LGBT) people are beg “liberately unrmed by some state ernments the Uned Stat”, urgg more actn on the part of the Bin admistratn to protect them. | * un and lgbt *
Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. “Three out of 10 women unr the age of 25 nsir themselv to be gay or transgenr. Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are.
” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer.
Huiatn and tolerance rema “a stark realy” for many gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people around the world, the UN human rights chief has said, her msage for the upg Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. | * un and lgbt *
And so are homosexualy, bisexualy and beg ’s been an objective crease the number of visible L.
This is the first time Amerin history that gay and trans people have been able to live as themselv any real way, wh jobs and marriag and dogs and ts and visibily.
Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people; vlence and discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, genr inty, sex characteristics * un and lgbt *
“La crimalización l sexo gay ota una aprobación tatal táca a la discrimación y la vlencia que las personas LGBT experimentan en su vida tidiana y obliga a muchas ellas a pensar en emigrar para vivir libremente y cumplir s sueños”, explicó Cristian González Cabrera, vtigador rechos las personas LGBT Human Rights Watch. San Vicente y las Granadas uno los seis país l hemisfer occintal don todavía se crimaliza el sexo gay.
Estas ley stan al sexo gay nsensuado en la sección sobre “los sexual” l código penal que, por lo más, tá rervada a los o vlación, cto y agrión sexual. Los otros país la región que todavía tipifin el sexo gay o lo son Domi, Granada, Guyana, Jamai y Santa Lucía. Un hombre gay 25 años San Vicente dijo a Human Rights Watch: “La gente siente que pue asarnos bido a que existen tas ley.
Wh New York Cy’s Pri March this month to be anized virtually for the first time s 50-year history, the Uned Natns is ntug to support lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex (LGBTI) people, who are among the most vulnerable durg the COVID-19 panmic. * un and lgbt *
Si las personas tán discutiendo, a [su] jtifición para la homofobia.