Amnesty calls for marriage
The Australian Government is failing to live up to its UN treaty obligations as long as it continues to deny same-sex marriage, Amnesty International Australia has warned.
Writing to the Senate Marriage Inquiry, Amnesty reminded the Government of the statement they signed last year, along with 66 other countries, to put an end to human rights abuses against the worldwide GLBT community.
“The supporting countries reaffirmed the principle of non-discrimination, which requires that human rights apply equally to every human being regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity,” Amnesty’s government relations advisor Louise Allen stated.
“Amnesty International believes that the removal of discrimination should extend to laws relating to the legal union of couples, otherwise known as marriage.
“To continue to prevent same-sex couples from entering into a legally binding union on the basis of sexual orientation is discriminatory and goes against the internationally recognised principle outlined.”
Amnesty pointed out that the right of adults to enter into consensual marriage is enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
If the United Nations have the Australians governments signature on agreement to remove discrimination in this area and the government has been warned that are not keeping to there agreement. How does the United Nations hold any government that does not hold to an agreement with them accountable? It is good to know that the Australian government signed this agreement but waht about keeping the agreement that was signed, as it is about Human Rights and allowing all the choice to marry or not to which in the 21st century all people shouldl have the right to choice who they want to marry because of the love they have for the person they love.
some one should \shoot rudd he is a parasite with small teeth.
This will fall on deaf ears believe me- all Kevin07 will hear & remember from this year will be the roar of cheers from the Australian Christian Lobby Hillsong conference that he is Key Note Speaker at in November this year.
You can bet part of his speech will involve the quote they will all be salivating to hear- “Labor policy is that marriage is between one man and one woman”, to which the crowd will cheer & go wild, boosting up the ego of ChristianKevin into thinking these loonies will get him over the line at the next election, as important swinging voters that he needs to constantly woo. (While gays are just taken for granted that they’ll always just vote Labor no matter what, as a taken-for-granted wasted vote)
Something that the Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade can boast about to their counterparts in China and Myanmar.