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Top U.N. Official Says Same-Sex Partnership Protections Needed To Safeguard Human Rights
BuzzFeed News ^ | June 1, 2015 | J. Lester Feder, World correspondent

Posted on 06/01/2015 5:24:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The new report issued Monday is the first to tackle LGBT rights since Jordanian Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein was named U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, called for all countries to provide legal protections for same sex couples and their children in a report issued Monday.

Hussein stopped short of recommending countries to call those protections “marriage,” but the report suggested that whatever these partnerships are called, they should make all the same protections available to same-sex couples.

“States should address discrimination by: …. Providing legal recognition to same-sex couples and their children, ensuring that benefits traditionally accorded married partners – including those related to benefits, pensions, and taxation and inheritance – are accorded on a non-discriminatory basis,” the report released by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said.

The recommendation is one of 20 proposals Hussein is putting forward to states to enact to combat violence and discrimination against LGBTI people.

That such a recommendation would be put forward at all shows how rapidly the discussion of LGBTI rights is advancing in diplomatic circles. The high commissioner’s office has only issued a report on LGBT rights once before — in 2011 — and that document was almost exclusively focused on preventing violence, repealing laws criminalizing homosexuality, and ensuring LGBT advocates can exercise basic political rights.

The report was ordered by the United Nations Human Rights Commission shortly after Hussein took office last year following a bitter debate in Geneva. Opposition to the resolution was led by Egypt and other members of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation, which has been a base of opposition to advancing LGBT rights since efforts first began around ten years ago.

But this new report may carry special significance because the OHCHR is now has a leader from a Muslim majority country: Hussein, who took the post in September 2014, is a prince of the royal family of Jordan.

This year’s report did not shy away from making other politically charged recommendations, such as appearing to single out Russia by calling for the repeal of its “so-called ‘anti-propaganda’ and other laws that impose discriminatory restrictions on freedom of expression, association and assembly.”

It also called for states to enact hate-crime laws and urged the adoption of bans on “conversion therapy” intended to end same-sex attraction. And it made several suggests for protections for intersex people — who are born without clearly male or female anatomy — including calling for an end to the kinds of genital surgery now routinely performed on intersex infants.

The report also reiterated recommendations from the 2011 report calling for the repeal of criminal sodomy laws and allowing transgender people to change their documentation.

Read the full report here:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/267322958/A-HRC-29-23-en-1


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: amman; culturewar; egypt; foryourowngood; homosexualagenda; jordan; lgbt; majdaraad; margarethalind; mexico; oic; sarahbutler; sexpositiveagenda; sweden; unitednations; unprofor; unsexscandals; usoutofunnow; waronreligion; yugoslavia; zeidraadalhussein

1 posted on 06/01/2015 5:24:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nonsense! This is why, in part, the UN is for nothing more than to shake down US taxpayers.


2 posted on 06/01/2015 5:27:00 PM PDT by Fungi
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Lets get them written right into the constitutions of obungholes 57 islamic states


3 posted on 06/01/2015 5:30:18 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When is he going to tell that to the Imam and to ISIS??


4 posted on 06/01/2015 5:31:10 PM PDT by dontBSme
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
... called for all countries to provide legal protections for same sex couples and their children...

Then it is only fair that ISIS throws the pitcher, the catcher and their children off the hotel roofs. Fair is fair....

5 posted on 06/01/2015 5:32:27 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What has the UN done to protect the human rights of Christians and Jews in the Middle East?


6 posted on 06/01/2015 5:36:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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About $240 to YELLOW! (90%)
Any takers?


7 posted on 06/01/2015 5:39:58 PM PDT by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

AAAAGGGGHHHHHHH....STOP...STOP...STOP


8 posted on 06/01/2015 6:27:55 PM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: goodnesswins; 2ndDivisionVet
AAAAGGGGHHHHHHH....STOP...STOP...STOP

I agree. He does have an obsession with the gay / lesbian / transgender topics.

9 posted on 06/01/2015 6:33:12 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: dsrtsage

“Lets get them written right into the constitutions of obungholes 57 islamic states”

This will go over big in the Mideast. Africa, too.


10 posted on 06/01/2015 6:51:34 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

US out of the UN, UN off US soil!


11 posted on 06/01/2015 7:08:31 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Zeid_bin_Ra%27ad

Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad... Spouse Sarah Butler... Mother Margaretha Inga Elisabeth Lind... born Amman, Jordan... He is the son of Prince Ra’ad bin Zeid, Lord Chamberlain of Jordan, and his Swedish-born wife Margaretha Inga Elisabeth Lind, subsequently known as Majda Raad. Previously, he was Jordan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. From 2007-2010 he served as Jordan’s Ambassador to the United States and non-resident Ambassador to Mexico. Zeid played a central role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court, and was elected the first president of the Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court in September 2002. He also served as a political affairs officer in UNPROFOR, in the former Yugoslavia, from 1994 to 1996.


12 posted on 06/02/2015 3:48:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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