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Gender-bending Yogyakarta Principles brought to Council of Europe

By Alliance Alert

C-FAM: "Two recent initiatives out of the Council of Europe (CoE) on sexual orientation and gender identity are seen as the first major step to codify the radical Yogyakarta Principles into the framework of international institutions. The Yogyakarta Principles (Principles) is a 2007 document adopted by a group of human rights 'experts' including several United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteurs and members of UN treaty monitoring bodies . . . Although neither CoE document is binding, Roger Kiska, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, warned the Friday Fax, 'These CoE documents in the future would be likely quoted by the ECHR and influence its interpretations.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 20, 2010 (boomark / email).