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Russia fails in bid to stop U.N. staff benefits for all gay couples
(Reuters) - Russia failed on Tuesday in a bid to stop the United Nations extending staff benefits to all same-sex couples after a U.N. General Assembly budget committee voted 80 to 43 against the proposal.
There were 37 abstentions and 33 countries did not vote.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in July that the United Nations would recognize all same-sex marriages of its staff, allowing them to receive U.N. benefits.
Previously, staff members' personal status was determined by the laws of their country of nationality. But the United Nations now recognizes all same-sex couples married in a country where it is legal, regardless of their nationality.
Russia wanted the 193-member General Assembly Fifth Committee, which deals with the U.N. budget, to overturn Ban's decision and had been threatening to put the measure to a vote since December.
"We must speak plainly about what Russia tried to do today: diminish the authority of the U.N. Secretary-General and export to the U.N. its domestic hostility to LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) rights," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, said in a statement after the vote.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/24/us-un-gaymarriage-russia-idUSKBN0MK1UW20150324
VOTED FOR THE RUSSIAN RESOLUTION:
Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Botswana, Brunei, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, China, Comoros, North Korea, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Tanzania, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe voted for the Russian proposal.
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/03/24/bid-to-block-spousal-benefits-for-gay-u-n-employees-fails/
Voting Record on L.9
Published by UN Tribune
Draft resolution sponsored by Russia that would have revoked benefits for same-sex married UN staff
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)ejbr
(5,852 posts)disappointed with Djibouti?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,085 posts)Phil Robertson and Dumbfuck Dynasty's kind of place.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)The former KGB head is their American Idol. More proof that the difference between Republicans and the Soviet Communists they claim to despise is roughly the same as the difference between the Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)will tell us the RT take on this travesty.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)China, Nicaragua, Russia, North Korea.
Plus of course the usual suspects from the Middle East and South Asia.
Assange's hosts in Ecuador couldn't bring themselves to vote against it, but at least they were cowardly instead of evil.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Because of course being gay is just Western decadence.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Note that Ukraine voted with the civilized world.
Sid
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)You know, like all Nazi-occupied governments do.
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)They are causing so many to suffer so needlessly.
Assholes.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Even at 2:1 it's too close.
pampango
(24,692 posts)along with many other large countries, it is safe to say that 1/2 or more of the world's population lives in countries that voted to strip recognition from same-sex couples among UN staff. That is a sad commentary.
One oddity is that the only European, North or South American country that voted against same-sex benefits was Nicaragua. I thought that the government of Daniel Ortega was leftist.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)He's more extreme on abortion than Randall Terry.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,695 posts)Thanks for posting it.