{"id":6174,"date":"2011-12-16T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/u-n-calls-for-protecting-gay-rights-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:22:11","slug":"u-n-calls-for-protecting-gay-rights-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/u-n-calls-for-protecting-gay-rights-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. calls for protecting gay rights worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* First official U.N. report cites killings, abuses<br \/>\nworldwide<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Coincides with end of Anwar sodomy trial in Malaysia<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Death penalty in five countries for consensual conduct<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Stephanie Nebehay<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>GENEVA, Dec 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Homosexuals and transgender<br \/>\npeople in all regions face discrimination and violence,<br \/>\nincluding killings, rape and torture because of their<br \/>\norientation, and risk the death penalty in at least five<br \/>\ncountries, the United Nations said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the first official U.N. report on the issue, it called on<br \/>\ngovernments to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender<br \/>\n(LGBT) people, prosecute all serious violations and repeal<br \/>\ndiscriminatory laws.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Homophobic and transphobic violence has been recorded in<br \/>\nall regions. Such violence may be physical (including murder,<br \/>\nbeatings, kidnappings, rape and sexual assault) or psychological<br \/>\n(including threats, coercion and arbitrary deprivations of<br \/>\nliberty),&#8221; said the report by U.N. High Commissioner for Human<br \/>\nRights Navi Pillay.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.N. Human Rights Council commissioned the report in<br \/>\nJune when it recognised the equal rights of LGBT people and said<br \/>\nthere should be no discrimination or violence based on sexual<br \/>\norientation. Western countries called the vote historic but<br \/>\nIslamic states firmly rejected it.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a speech to the<br \/>\n47-member forum in Geneva on Dec. 6, said &#8220;it should never be a<br \/>\ncrime to be gay&#8221;.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* First official U.N. report cites killings, abuses worldwide * Coincides with end of Anwar sodomy trial in Malaysia * Death penalty in five countries for consensual conduct By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, Dec 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Homosexuals and transgender people in all regions face discrimination and violence, including killings, rape and torture because of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}