On Monday 14 June, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, called on Hungarian Parliamentarians to reject the proposal to ban the “portrayal and the promotion of gender identity different from sex at birth, the change of sex and homosexuality”.
“If adopted”, Dunja Mijatović added, “the broadly phrased amendments to the Child Protection Act, the Family Protection Act, the Act on Business Advertising Activity, the Media Act and the Public Education Act would outlaw any depiction or discussion of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations in the public sphere, including in schools and the media”.
This would be “an affront against the rights and identities of LGBTI persons” and “curtails the freedom of expression and education of all Hungarians “.
“The proposed legislative changes run counter to international and European human rights standards”, the Commissioner insisted, concluding by recalling the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (2010) on discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Link to the Statement: https://bit.ly/35lad20 (Original version in French by Véronique Leblanc)