Stavros
06-02-2015, 02:58 PM
The UN Commission on Human Rights published a report on the violence and discrimination recorded against LGBT across the world, it was published on May 4 2015. The Report is 21 pages long (I have edited out the notes below to make quoting here easier).
The Report offers evidence of the measures being taken to combat acts of violence and discrimination, yet they are still widespread. It refers, for example to:
Hate-motivated killings of LGBT individuals have been documented in all regions. The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has noted “grotesque homicides” perpetrated with broad impunity, allegedly at times with the “complicity of investigative authorities”Treaty bodies, special procedures and United Nations agencies continue to express alarm at such killings and related patterns of violence, including the murder of transsexual women in Uruguay and of Black lesbian women in South Africa. In an assault in Chile, a gay man was beaten and killed by neo-Nazis, who burned him with cigarettes and carved swastikas into his body.(Page 8 of the report).
It also states
In the United States, recent government figures show that the number of bias-motivated incidents based on sexual orientation ranks second only to racist incidents among single-bias hate crimes. A Europe-wide survey of 93,000 LGBT persons conducted in 2013 for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights found that a quarter of all respondents had been attacked or threatened with violence in the previous five years. A survey conducted in 2012 by the non-governmental organization Stonewall in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland found that one in six LGBT respondents had experienced a hate crime or incident in the previous three years; of those, 75 per cent had not reported the experience to the police. (Page 10 of the Report).
Violence and discrimination come in many forms, and we must admit that Transgendered people are also capable of committing such acts, but the Report is mostly concerned with how LGBT communities are affected by government policy, and by institutions such as police and prison services. It does also point to positive achievements, but a week after the referendum in Ireland, it is clear that we have a long way to go before attitudes and behaviour change, if they ever do.
The full report can be found by following the link here:
A/HRC/29/23
Update of report A/HRC/19/41 (on discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity) - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Here -but will require Microsoft Word or Acrobat to open:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session29/Documents/A_HRC_29_23_en.doc
The Report offers evidence of the measures being taken to combat acts of violence and discrimination, yet they are still widespread. It refers, for example to:
Hate-motivated killings of LGBT individuals have been documented in all regions. The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has noted “grotesque homicides” perpetrated with broad impunity, allegedly at times with the “complicity of investigative authorities”Treaty bodies, special procedures and United Nations agencies continue to express alarm at such killings and related patterns of violence, including the murder of transsexual women in Uruguay and of Black lesbian women in South Africa. In an assault in Chile, a gay man was beaten and killed by neo-Nazis, who burned him with cigarettes and carved swastikas into his body.(Page 8 of the report).
It also states
In the United States, recent government figures show that the number of bias-motivated incidents based on sexual orientation ranks second only to racist incidents among single-bias hate crimes. A Europe-wide survey of 93,000 LGBT persons conducted in 2013 for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights found that a quarter of all respondents had been attacked or threatened with violence in the previous five years. A survey conducted in 2012 by the non-governmental organization Stonewall in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland found that one in six LGBT respondents had experienced a hate crime or incident in the previous three years; of those, 75 per cent had not reported the experience to the police. (Page 10 of the Report).
Violence and discrimination come in many forms, and we must admit that Transgendered people are also capable of committing such acts, but the Report is mostly concerned with how LGBT communities are affected by government policy, and by institutions such as police and prison services. It does also point to positive achievements, but a week after the referendum in Ireland, it is clear that we have a long way to go before attitudes and behaviour change, if they ever do.
The full report can be found by following the link here:
A/HRC/29/23
Update of report A/HRC/19/41 (on discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity) - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Here -but will require Microsoft Word or Acrobat to open:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session29/Documents/A_HRC_29_23_en.doc