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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago, we celebrated for the seventh consecutive year the International Day against Homophobia, but can we honestly now say ‘it’s getting better’? Even if we can congratulate ourselves on the decriminalisation of homosexuality, news stories tell us that we still need to stand firm in our fight against the violence and discrimination that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people face in their everyday lives.
In far too many countries around the world, national and regional governments enact laws that criminalise what is termed by them as propaganda promoting homosexuality. In far too many countries around the world, living as a homosexual or expressing oneself in a gender that differs from the one recognised at birth can be life-threatening. This, in itself, fully justifies the need for those affected by such situations to be granted access to international protection.
Sadly, the path to equality, in our countries, is still a long one, but we should stay on the right path as LGBT people are all too often the target of unacceptable stigmatisation and sometimes violence. Cases of suicide among LGBT teenagers are also signs warning us of the urgent need for action.
To stem the tide of discrimination on a long-term basis, directions must be followed. They could be divided along three lines: firstly, and this forms the foundations, by educating children from a very early age to respect others through school curricula that aim to confront prejudice, representations and sexist and homophobic stereotypes, next by offering gay couples equal rights to marriage and adoption, and I am pleased to see that the new government in France has pledged to carry out this reform, and lastly by legally sanctioning homophobic and transphobic insults in the same way as racist insults."@en1
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