Topic: Rights of LGBT Individuals
Country: Denmark
Delegate Name: Lydia Kugler
School: Williamston High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Denmark position papers GLIMUN 2013 committees
The subject of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons has been in question since the early-1980s. The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted its first resolution in 2011 to address the rights of these people. Ninety-five nations have full or partial gay anti-discrimination laws, nineteen nations fully or partially recognize homosexual unions, and seventy-six nations criminalize consensual homosexual acts. Denmark believes that all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons should be fully accepted into society with equal rights.
The Declaration or Human Rights states, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment or treatment. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.” Denmark fully agrees with these guidelines. Denmark believes that all people have equal rights no matter what sexual orientation they might be. Also, Denmark ensures human diversity can thrive regardless of sexual orientation.
Denmark aims to promote the possibility for people to realize their individual character despite, age, ethnic origin, religion, social and cultural differences, gender, or sexual orientation. The United Nations can guarantee equal human rights in as many countries as possible to ensure rights to internationally traveling citizens. The goal of the United Nations includes: repealing laws that criminalize homosexuality, abolish the death penalty involving homosexuality, standardize age consent for homosexual and heterosexual conduct, ensure that asylum laws recognize sexual orientation as a basis for claiming persecution, and enable LGBT persons feeling persecution to avoid returning to countries or territories where their freedom is threatened. The United Nation’s objective must be to debate the rights of homosexual persons to other discriminating countries without causing sovereignty conflict. Denmark expects support from European countries and other countries with similar beliefs.
