| ID | 127588 |
| Title Proper | Human rights and gay rights |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Encarnacion, Omar G |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | When, many years from now, historians undertake to determine the watershed moments in the evolution of the international human rights movement, they likely will single out for attention the June 2011 United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution affirming that "gay rights are human rights." A simple fact underscores the resolution's momentousness: It has become common to think of gay rights and human rights as closely intertwined, yet the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights-which asserted that human rights are inalienable rights that a person is entitled to simply because he or she is a human-made no mention of sexual identity, even as it addressed a wide range of rights, such as the right to work, housing, education, association, religion, and even leisure. So how did this commingling of human rights and gay rights come about, and what does it say about the future of both movements? |
| `In' analytical Note | Current History Vol.113, No.759; January 2014: p.36-39 |
| Journal Source | Current History Vol.113, No.759; January 2014: p.36-39 |
| Key Words | Social Empowerment ; Social Rights ; Human Rights ; Gender System ; United Nations Human Rights Council - UNHRC ; Social Welfare ; Politics ; Western Powers ; Western Europe ; History ; American Psychological Association - APS ; World Health Organization - WHO |