mrmacq

not to worry
heres the intro
The UN has a remarkable track record of doing virtually nothing when presented with mass killings or genocide. "Never again!" was the cry after the holocaust. Since then, the world has witnessed a dozen more never agains with strong condemnation from the UN coming after the corpses pile up. A resolution of the sort that was voted on in the General Assembly is significant for its clarity of message: "It's okay to kill the gays."

but obviously thats under a different heading than genocide
as this poster quoted blog would have you think

the "gay thing"
was only thrown up for vote recently
"Signatories to the UN declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity

The proposed United Nations declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity is a Dutch/French-initiated, European Union-backed statement presented to the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 2008."

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Nations on four continents are coordinating the statement, including: Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, France, Gabon, Japan, the Netherlands, and Norway. The reading of the statement will be the first time the General Assembly has formally addressed rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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"In 1948 the world's nations set forth the promise of human rights, but six decades later, the promise is unfulfilled for many," said Linda Baumann of Namibia, a board member of Pan Africa ILGA, a coalition of over 60 African lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) groups. "The unprecedented African support for this statement sends a message that abuses against LGBT people are unacceptable anywhere, ever."
United Nations: General assembly to address sexual orientation and gender identity - Statement affirms promise of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
oops
sorta throws a wrench into the ops statement
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"Today, dozens of countries still criminalize consensual homosexual conduct, laws that are often relics of colonial rule,"
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oh my

The statement also builds on a long record of UN action to defend the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. In its 1994 decision in Toonen v. Australia, the UN Human Rights Committee -- the body that interprets the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), one of the UN's core human rights treaties -- held that human rights law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation.

damn eh?

but lets let them blather on
on how its the UNs fault
instead of looking inward

(dont make me post it)

So far, 55 countries have signed onto the General Assembly statement. Others include: Andorra, Armenia, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chile, Ecuador, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Montenegro, New Zealand, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Uruguay, and Venezuela. All 27 member states of the European Union are also signatories.
United Nations: General assembly to address sexual orientation and gender identity - Statement affirms promise of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

so whos suspiciously absent?

try as i might
cant find their name as a signatory
please someone help me out
tell me its not so

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