The challenge of adopting sexual orientation resolutions at the UN Human Rights Council

Since the mid-1990s, UN special procedures reports have increasingly addressed human rights violations related to sexual orientation. However, it was not until 2011 that the first UN resolution on human rights and sexual orientation was adopted. After considerable difficulty, a follow-up resolution...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-37202020-04-01T08:45:36Z The challenge of adopting sexual orientation resolutions at the UN Human Rights Council JORDAAN, Eduard Since the mid-1990s, UN special procedures reports have increasingly addressed human rights violations related to sexual orientation. However, it was not until 2011 that the first UN resolution on human rights and sexual orientation was adopted. After considerable difficulty, a follow-up resolution was adopted in late 2014. This policy and practice note examines the challenges of adopting sexual orientation resolutions at the UN Human Rights Council. The discussion is organized around six challenges: the need for Southern leadership, the strong counter-reaction that sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) issues generate at the UN, finding a strong leader, divisions within civil society, securing the necessary votes, and the contents of the resolution. The paper concludes with a reflection on the practical and strategic implications of these challenges. 2016-07-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2463 info:doi/10.1093/jhuman/huw009 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3720/viewcontent/SexualOrientationResolutions_UN_2016_afv.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University human rights human rights defenders sexual orientation United Nations UN Human Rights Council International Relations Political Science Public Affairs
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sexual orientation
United Nations
UN Human Rights Council
International Relations
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Public Affairs
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human rights defenders
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UN Human Rights Council
International Relations
Political Science
Public Affairs
JORDAAN, Eduard
The challenge of adopting sexual orientation resolutions at the UN Human Rights Council
description Since the mid-1990s, UN special procedures reports have increasingly addressed human rights violations related to sexual orientation. However, it was not until 2011 that the first UN resolution on human rights and sexual orientation was adopted. After considerable difficulty, a follow-up resolution was adopted in late 2014. This policy and practice note examines the challenges of adopting sexual orientation resolutions at the UN Human Rights Council. The discussion is organized around six challenges: the need for Southern leadership, the strong counter-reaction that sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) issues generate at the UN, finding a strong leader, divisions within civil society, securing the necessary votes, and the contents of the resolution. The paper concludes with a reflection on the practical and strategic implications of these challenges.
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