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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10999
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) human rights

EU called to defend LGBTI rights

Brussels, 17/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 16 January, MEPs stated in Strasbourg that LGBTI equality is an undeniable element of fundamental human rights. By adopting a resolution, the European Parliament called on the 78 countries that do so “to stop criminalising consensual activities between adults of the same sex, while noting that in seven of them the death penalty is applicable”. The MEPs also call on Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni “to refrain from signing the...

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