UN votes to tolerate execution of gays

[Dark Razor]

The United Nations has removed a plea for lesbians, gays and bisexuals not to be executed in a narrow vote.
The UN resolution urges countries to protect the right to life of all people, calling on them to investigate killings based on discriminatory grounds. Sexual orientation was previously listed as one of these forms of discrimination, alongside ethnicity, religious belief and linguistic minorities.

Others protected by the resolution were human rights defenders (like journalists, lawyers and demonstrators), street children and members of indigenous communities.

But now sexual orientation has been taken out of the list. The amendment was supported by Benin in Africa on behalf of the African Group in the UN General Assembly.

It passed on a narrow vote of 79 for, 70 against , 17 abstentions and 26 absent. (http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2010/11/gay-human-rights-groups-governments-remove-sexual-orientation-from-un-resolution-condemning-executions.html#ixzz161UfHH1z)

Among those, vote with YAY:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Brunei Dar-Sala, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, China, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Voted with NAY:

Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Micronesia (FS), Monaco, Montenegro, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Samoa, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela

Abstained:

Antigua-Barbuda, Barbados, Belarus, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Fiji, Mauritius, Mongolia, Papau New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

Absent:

Albania, Bolivia, Central African Republic, Chad, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Marshall Island, Mauritania, Nauru, Nicaragua, Palau, Sao Tome Principe, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Togo, Tonga, Turkey, Turkmenistan

Very sad, I am especially disappointed with the votes of South Africa, Russia, Cuba and China.

[stuck]

*slow claps humanity*

[starjots]

Plotting the yeas and nays on a map would show an interesting picture, looks like Europe, North and South America NAY vs. Africa and Asia YAY. I wonder why....

[Dark Razor]

Plotting the yeas and nays on a map would show an interesting picture, looks like Europe, North and South America NAY vs. Africa and Asia YAY. I wonder why....

Most of the Caribean voted YAY or abstained too though... I am certainly not going on a cruise there anytime soon..

Also, in some of the countries in Europe who voted NAY people are actually strongly homophobic, such as Serbia, Ukraine and to a lesser degree the Baltic countries and Poland. Bosnia was the only Islamic country to vote NAY, I see Turkey cleverly decided not to attend..

[Fig]

Plotting the yeas and nays on a map would show an interesting picture, looks like Europe, North and South America NAY vs. Africa and Asia YAY. I wonder why....
It probably lines up with this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Inglehart_Values_Map.svg/900px-Inglehart_Values_Map.svg.png

[Works]

I'm not surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised.

[pesquisa]

18 of the Yays were from member countries who occupy the 47 seat United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Human_Rights_Council#Members).

[fduniho]

Plotting the yeas and nays on a map would show an interesting picture, looks like Europe, North and South America NAY vs. Africa and Asia YAY. I wonder why....

A bit simplistic. Japan and South Korea voted NAY. The dividing line is more between free capitalist nations voting NAY and countries with recent histories of repression, whether due to communism, Islam, or apartheid, voting YAY.

[stuck]

A bit simplistic. Japan and South Korea voted NAY. The dividing line is more between free capitalist nations voting NAY and countries with recent histories of repression, whether due to communism, Islam, or apartheid, voting YAY.

Oh yeah, like Belize, Haiti, Grenada, and the Bahamas. I remember when the communists were gonna take over Grenada and we put a quick stop to it.

[Hustler]

A simple consequence of capitalism, but not as a dividing line.