"Human Rights" march on.Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. -- The discredited UN Commission for Human Rights closed shop earlier this year to be replaced by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC HRC Human Rights Campaign HRC Human Rights Council (UN) HRC Human Rights Commission HRC Hard Rock Cafe HRC Hillary Rodham Clinton (democratic senator/presidential candidate; former first lady) ). However, the same movers and shakers therein remain in place and for them it is business as usual. One person who particularly bears watching is UN Special Rapporteur Paul Hunt, a leading 'rights' advocate. The UN General Assembly in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of had previously, on August 30, agreed that the term "sexual and reproductive health" excludes abortion. However, Hunt and his cohorts, including many NGO's, continue to work to change this. The latest report tabled by this group to the HRC calls for the recognition of sexual rights which goes "beyond issues of identity, violence and discrimination ... to broader sexual freedom and a right to sexual expression and pleasure." All persons, Hunt claims, have "the right ... to express their sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. ." Also, presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. , there is a right in the case of those of "heterosexual expression" to avoid the consequences of sexual freedom by means of abortion (C-Fam, Oct. 6, 2006). |
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