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Ban Ki-Moon’s United Nations Speech on Gay Rights – The Re-Mix

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

A remix of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s video in support of gay rights was released Wednesday on YouTube.

The two-minute-thirty-second video begins with video footage showing most representatives from Arab and African nations walking out earlier this month on an historic session on gay rights at the United Nations Humans Rights Council in Geneva.

The panel was set to discuss High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay’s report documenting discriminatory laws and acts of violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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Venezuelan Gay Rights Group Reports Discrimination to UN

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

Venezuela Gay RightsSpecial lawmaking powers vested by the former National Assembly (AN) in Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez until mid 2011 jeopardize human rights. The claim was lodged on March 29 by a group of university scholars and human rights advocated with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

The Venezuelan Constitution prohibits any discrimination. However, in the South American country there are some groups such as the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) that do not even have the right to identity.

The complaint was made by Venezuelan gay activist group Diverlex in a report sent last week to Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, and to the UN Human Rights Council, in the framework of the Universal Periodic Review, a process which involves a review of the human rights record of all 192 UN Member States. Venezuela will undergo such review in October.

Full Story from EL Universal

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Being Gay in Bangladesh

Sunday, March 27th, 2011

Being Gay in BangladeshIn Geneva this week, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a wide ranging resolution supporting LGBT rights. The United States helped to lead an 85 countries into supporting the resolution, which including a statement on the decriminalization of LGBT conduct in countries where engaging same sex relations are illegal.

Here in Bangladesh, the government has not quite gotten the message. Same sex sex is illegal here, and punishable by months in prison.

The law, however, is only very rarely enforced. It is more common that unscrupulous policemen shake down men who have sex with men for bribes. And it apparently not uncommon for these unscrupulous police to demand fellatio from the men they have arrested.

Full Story from UN Dispatch

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United Nations Secretary-General Calls for Global Decriminalization of Homosexuality

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moonThe secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has called for homosexuality to be decriminalised globally. Speaking last Friday on Human Rights Day, Mr Ban said that people were “not put on this planet to live in fear of their fellow human beings” and that human rights must trump cultural attitudes.

He was speaking on a panel with US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice.

The panel condemned violence against LGBT and the continued criminalisation of gay people in more than 70 countries worldwide.

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UN Chief Calls for Reform of Africa’s Anti-Gay Laws

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

UN chief Ban Ki-moon persuaded Malawi’s president to pardon a gay couple jailed for holding a wedding, but his call to reform anti-gay laws poses a challenge to most of Africa. Ban repeatedly praised President Bingu wa Mutharika for his “courageous” decision to pardon the two men sentenced this month to 14 years’ hard labour after a sodomy conviction over their wedding.

While Mutharika said he would free Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, and his partner 26-year-old partner Steven Monjeza, he also made clear his disapproval.

“Our traditions and culture do not allow gay marriage,” Mutharika said. “In all aspects of reasoning, in all aspects of human understanding, these two gay boys were wrong, totally wrong.” But Ban framed the issue as an international human rights concern, and called for the reform of anti-gay laws not only in Malawi, but “where ever it may exist”.

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