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Fights Over Women's and LGBTQI+ Rights at the United Nations
The UN Human Rights Council is currently engaged in heated discussions over the formulation of resolutions concerning the protection of women and LGBTQI+ persons. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Austrian, Volker Türk, expressed his deep concern that established rights are increasingly being called into question.
As UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk expressed grave concern that established women's and LGTBQ+ rights are being questioned more and more. / Picture: © UN Geneva / UN photo by Violaine Martin / Flickr Attribution (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 GENERIC DEED, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)
"What we have seen over the years is a sophisticated, very strategic, unholy alliance of different groups. For example, religious fundamentalists of all kinds, populists, and those who stir up fear and division," said the Austrian UN diplomat Türk, as reported by ORF. He also criticized patriarchal and misogynistic attitudes…
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