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Article: Unholy alliance: the UN stumbles toward rights on sexual orientation.(Currents)
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- New Internationalist
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- August 1, 2003
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Five Muslim nations, in a rare alliance with the Vatican succeeded in thwarting a crucial Nations vote on Sexual Orientation and Human Rights--the first of its kind in the world body's 60-year-old history--at the UN Human Rights Commission 59th session in Geneva in May. However, campaigners felt they had nevertheless made a crucial step forward in getting such issues on the table at the UN.
The resolution proposed by Brazil expressed 'deep concern' at the occurrence of human-rights violations in the world on the grounds of sexual orientation. It called upon all states to 'promote and protect the human rights of all persons regardless of their sexual orientation.' ...