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Behind the Aegis

(53,831 posts)
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 01:40 AM Feb 2016

Banning homosexuality fosters hate crime and homophobia, says UN report

Men suspected of same-sex relationships in countries that outlaw them are subjected to examinations which ‘amount to torture’

Criminalising homosexuality amounts to torture in many of the 76 countries where same-sex relationships are outlawed, a United Nations report has declared.


Prof Juan Mendez, the organisation’s special rapporteur on torture, has called for decriminalisation in his latest submission to the UN’s human rights council on the grounds that the bans – which sometimes carry the death penalty – legitimise homophobia and hate crimes.

In one of the strongest denunciations of laws that are enforced in many African, Asian and Middle Eastern states, Mendez, a former Argentinian political prisoner, urges governments to reconsider their statute books.


“A clear link exists between the criminalisation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons and homophobic and transphobic hate crimes, police abuse, community and family violence and stigmatisation,” his report says.

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Seems like a "water is wet" type of story, the problem is it seems few are willing to speak up and condemn these things on a regular basis. We also see this is true in our own country (the US) especially when it comes to new laws regarding transgender rights, and even supposed liberals pitch a fit. We also see the continuing of attempts at laws to deny marriage equality, as well as the laws which currently exist in many states which actively and legally deny LGBT persons from employment and housing.

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Banning homosexuality fosters hate crime and homophobia, says UN report (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Feb 2016 OP
It is a water wet thing, but you're preaching to the choir Hydra Feb 2016 #1
K&R one_voice Feb 2016 #2
Another reason, as if they needed one, for the right to hate the UN. n/t pampango Feb 2016 #3
You mean we shouldn't have the right to discriminate against and persecute groups of people? YoungDemCA Feb 2016 #4

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
1. It is a water wet thing, but you're preaching to the choir
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 01:49 AM
Feb 2016

When you give official sanctioning against a person, the greater mob of lesser humanity takes it as a signal to do their worst. And they do.

 

YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)
4. You mean we shouldn't have the right to discriminate against and persecute groups of people?
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 12:16 PM
Feb 2016

What are ya, some kind of Politically Correct Social Justice Warrior?



K&R to an important thread and issue.

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