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

• المؤلف الرئيسي: JORDAAN, Eduard
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• الموضوعات: human rights; human rights defenders; sexual orientation; United Nations; UN Human Rights Council; International Relations; Political Science; Public Affairs
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2463; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3720/viewcontent/SexualOrientationResolutions_UN_2016_afv.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

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...