United Nations restores ‘sexual orientation’ to anti-execution resolution (LGBTQNation)
In a follow-up to a story we covered last month, the United Nations last week voted to restore a reference to killings due to sexual orientation that had been deleted from a resolution condemning unjustified executions.
The United States led a successful effort on Tuesday to return LGBT people to the list of those whose extrajudicial executions the U.N. condemns.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. reintroduced the language to send an unequivocal message that “No one should be killed for who they are.”
In November, the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Committee approved a proposal by several Arab and African nations to remove “sexual orientation” from a resolution condemning extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions.
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Complete article at LGBTQ Nation : http://bit.ly/fsHq8z
