UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Archives

UN Releases Video and Pamphlet to Mark the International Day Against Homophobia

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the highest human rights official in the UN system, released a video and a pamphlet last week decrying violence and discrimination…

Laws criminalizing homosexuality are incompatible with international human rights standards and fuel homophobia

repost from UNHCR website Laws criminalizing same-sex relations between consenting adults remain on the statute books in more than 70 countries. They are an affront to principles of…