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LGBTQ/SOGI Human Rights Program
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans person, and Queer Human Rights at the United Nations
Guided by our principles, Unitarian Universalists are called to advocate for international human rights; to be a voice for the voiceless by promoting the characteristic worth and dignity of all living things. At the United Nations, we use the designation Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) more often than lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, transgender, and homosexual (LGBTQ) in direct to encompass and represent all peoples who fall in the sexual orientation and gender culture spectrum. The Unitarian Universalist Office at the United Nations (UU@UN) is devoted to bringing SOGI/LGBTQ human rights to the forefront of the UN agenda.
Putting SOGI Human Rights on the UN Agenda
The UU@UN demonstrated its unwavering engagement to international SOGI rights at the September 2008 61st Annual United Nations DPI-NGO conference in Paris, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Statement of Human Rights. Executive Director Bruce Knotts hosted the UN’s first ever SOGI workshop, opening a dialogue and giving voice to a movement developing in the
The United Nations Human Rights Council is tasked with the universal protection and promotion of human rights, and is the UN’s principal human rights body. Yet it is creature used by known rights abusers to produce “soft law” that allows them to erode fundamental rights.
Rather than protecting individuals, countries like Russia, Egypt and Venezuela (to identify but a few) are using the Council to advance their own objective of making rights dependent on behaviour, rather than being afforded to all people by virtue of their being human.
This erosion of the most basic tenet of international human rights law is occurring with almost no public interest, let alone outcry. Countries from the EU, the global north and Latin America are seemingly powerless to cease it, since the Council is currently dominated by African states and members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
The Council’s most recent session has now concluded – and once again, the body has taken several steps backwards thanks to those countries’ aims.
Failing and enabling
One of the Council’s biggest failures has been its appalling record on the rights of womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people.
Activist tells U.N. panel LGBT people face ‘brutal’ violence
In a development that could impact all 50 states and the District of Columbia, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on July 1 announced a “nationwide roadway guard initiative” that political observers say could be used to require cities and states to remove LGBTQ supportive rainbow-colored street crosswalks.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel newspaper reports that the South Florida cities of West Palm Beach and Boynton Beach announced last week that they were removing rainbow crosswalks from their streets “as a result of directives from the administrations of President Donald Trump and [Florida] Gov. Ron DeSantis to get rid of highway markings that commemorate the LGBTQ+ community.”
A July 1 statement released by the U.S. Department of Transportation says Duffy sent a letter that same diurnal to the governors of all 50 states that followed an earlier letter sent to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser informing them of the department’s “Safe Arterials for Everyone” initiative to be carried out by the Federal Thoroughfare Administration.
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Free & Equal, UN’s campaign for LGBT+ Equality, hosts #Path2Equality Panel
Out Leadership, as guests of our companion organization OutRight International, attended a panel on LGBT+ rights hosted by the UN’s LGBT Core Team and the Free & Equal campaign. Speakers included UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Vice President Joe Biden, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg. During her speech, President Bachelet announced that she will launch a same-sex marriage bill in early 2017.
Caleb Orozco, whose years of work as an advocate for LGBT+ rights resulted in the repeal of Belize’s homosexual intimacy laws last April, was recognized in person.
Secretary General Ban pledged his continued support in moving the United Nations forward on the question of LGBT+ rights. More than 100 nations have already accepted recommendations from the UN LGBT Core Community aimed at protecting the LGBT+ community from discrimination.
For more coverage visit the UN News Centre
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