Some good news for once, the US resolution to put sexual orientation on the protected rights list is back:
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The British Humanist Association has welcomed the vote late last night by the United Nations General Assembly in favour of adding victims’ sexual orientation back to the list of highlighted groups in a resolution condemning extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
The UN passes the resolution every two years, which urges states to protect the right to life of all people, including by calling on states to investigate killings based on discriminatory grounds. For the past 10 years, the resolution has included sexual orientation in the list of discriminatory grounds on which killings are often based. However one month ago the General Assembly’s Third Committee narrowly voted to take out “sexual orientation” from this year’s resolution, which the BHA believes constituted the removal of the recognition of the particular vulnerability of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people around the world.
The vote in the General Assembly proper was on a US amendment that reintroduced this explicit protection; the vote was passed by 93 in favour to 55 against, with 27 abstentions.
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http://www.humanism.org.uk/news/view/721
The votes by countries:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/45768816/U...-Killings-Vote
