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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on October 03, 2017, 07:47:22 am
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Death Penalty For Same-Sex Relations Denounced By United Nations
Tanya Mohn
“Horrific laws” condemning people to death because of whom they love are the focus of a new international proposal. “The question of the death penalty” resolution to denounce the most severe punishment for consensual same-sex relations was passed on Friday by the 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Twenty-seven nations voted in favor of the resolution; 13 voted against it and 7 abstained.
“It is unconscionable to think that there are hundreds of millions of people living in States where somebody may be executed simply because of whom they love” Renato Sabbadini, executive director of The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), said in a statement. “This is a monumental moment where the international community has publicly highlighted that these horrific laws simply must end."
Continued at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyamohn/2017/10/02/death-penalty-for-same-sex-relations-denounced-by-united-nations/#724131172b77
Map at link, indicates rights or lack of. Blurry map from Forbes:
(https://blogs-images.forbes.com/tanyamohn/files/2017/05/ILGA_WorldMap_ENGLISH_Overview_2017-300x212.jpg?width=960)
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