“This marks a significant milestone in the long struggle for equality, and the beginning of a universal recognition that (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) persons are endowed with the same inalienable rights — and entitled to the same protections — as all human beings.”
To respond to the growing concern of human right violations especially for those of lesbians, gays, and transgender, for the first time, the United Nations had took their stand as they endorsed gay rights in the forum as they set at Geneva, Switzerland.
Stated on the endorsement was the expression of UN’s “grave concern” to the increasing number of abuse cases globally.
Supporting the endorsement were countries like United States of America, European Union and Latin America to name a few. However, opposing the endorsement were Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and some other African countries.
Many countries had listed concerns related to discrimination to gay rights from various levels in the society.
Despite the positive purpose of this new endorsement, critics had said that this latest development is just a tactic to divert attention of the people to the real concern of the people worldwide.
The quest of developing an equal treatment to people for all races and gender is the core basis of this endorsement. In relation to this, U.S Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that this moved is one that represents a historic moment giving a higher view and treatment to human right abuses hitting that of those gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender.
Turn outs of the vote showed 23 votes favouring the declaration put forward by South Africa while there were 19 votes rising against it.
The deliberation took place at the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council.
A week ago, an event was held in Vatican in order to express and to celebrate the gay rights which was attended by the very popular Lady Gaga.