RSSWe Must Change Terrorism Laws to Protect Gender Equality
Carl Andrews | October 21, 2009
Gays, bisexuals, lesbians, transsexuals, they should all be treated the same.
Especially if one is a gay bisexual transgended terrorist.
In case you weren’t sure, human gender is “changeable over time and contexts,” sex slaves must not be “stigmatized” for their work, and it’s important to recognize the role of “transgender and intersex individuals as stakeholders” in counterterrorism policy.Those are some of the conclusions of a United Nations report on counterterrorism that is intended to promote human rights — but that critics say is designed to redefine gender and hamstring actual counterterror efforts.
Martin Scheinin, a special rapporteur for the U.N.’s Human Rights Council, filed his report in August after six months of studying the “complex relationship between gender equality and countering terrorism.”
Scheinin recommends a radical reworking of counterterrorism policies, insisting that the U.N.’s member nations “abandon the ‘war paradigm’” and “enshrine the principles of gender-equality and non-discrimination in the design and implementation of all counter-terrorism measures.”
Among his proposals:
• “Repeal all counter-terrorism measures” that sanction the ill-treatment…Read the rest of this entry
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