Challenges faced by groups most at risk when exercising or seeking to exercise the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and/or of association 2014, para. 30
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
Some of the most prominent examples include "public morality" laws that have been used selectively against those promoting LGBTI rights. In June 2013, the President of the Russian Federation signed legislation banning "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" among minors. There is no legal definition in the Russian law of what constitutes non-traditional sexual relations, but it is widely acknowledged to be code for homosexual relations. While legislators have argued that the main purpose of the law is to protect children, the Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern at the law and recommended its repeal, as it found that it encouraged the stigmatization and discrimination of LGBTI children and the targeting and persecution of the LGBTI community (CRC/C/RUS/CO/4-5, para. 25).
Status juridique
Non-negotiated soft law
Organe
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Type de document
Special Procedures' report
Mode d'adoption
N.A.
Thèmes
Equality & Inclusion
Governance & Rule of Law
Personnes concernées
Children
LGBTQI+
Année
2014
Type de paragraphe
Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the HRC (2014), A/HRC/26/29, para. 30.