Laws against gay sex are "like apartheid" says UN human rights chief

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Laws against gay sex are "like apartheid" says UN human rights chief

By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk • January 5, 2009 - 12:09

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10233.html

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the continued criminalisation of homosexual sex across the world.

Mrs Navanethem Pillay, a South African, was addressing at a high level meeting on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity at the UN in New York last month.

"Those who are lesbian, gay or bisexual, those who are transgender, transsexual or intersex, are full and equal members of the human family, and are entitled to be treated as such."