It won't be long now before significant changes will be made at the United Nations office to overturn the unpopular provision to give lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT) special privileges over the other segment of the population.
The African countries led a group of nations that will try to use a vote in New York to reverse an earlier decision, which they were unable to defeat at the Geneva-based Human Rights Commission (HRC). The issue at stake: a council decision last June to create the U.N.’s first independent expert focused only on "violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity."
The African countries led a group of nations that will try to use a vote in New York to reverse an earlier decision, which they were unable to defeat at the Geneva-based Human Rights Commission (HRC). The issue at stake: a council decision last June to create the U.N.’s first independent expert focused only on "violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity."