Use of legislation to regulate activities of human rights defenders 2012, para. 30
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- The situation of defenders working on the promotion and protection of human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons continues to be volatile, given that same-sex relations between consenting adults are currently criminalized in more than 75 countries worldwide. In recent years, there have been legislative moves in several countries that have further curbed the activities of defenders working on these issues. Such laws typically make it a crime to operate associations working to defend lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and often contain vaguely worded provisions criminalizing individuals who promote homosexuality or facilitate, condone or even simply witness same-sex relationships. Besides the purported justification of preserving public morals, some of these laws expressly forbid promotion of homosexuality among minors. Such measures link homosexuality to paedophilia, which are two completely unrelated phenomena. This stigmatizes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and considerably discredits the work of defenders.
- Condicón jurídica
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Medio de adopción
- N.A.
- Temas
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personas afectadas
- LGBTQI+
- Año
- 2012
- Tipo de párrafo
- Other
- Reference
- SR Human Rights Defenders, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/292, para. 30.
- Paragraph number
- 30
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