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Russia should repeal laws targeting LGBTQ community: UN
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1:27Now PlayingU.N. Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said on Thursday (November 30) that the LGBTQ community's situation in Russia was "just going from bad to worse," with its members fearing arrest and prosecution. Shamdasani's comments come after U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk deplored a Russian Supreme Court ruling that designates LGBTQ activists as extremists, urging Moscow to repeal laws that discriminate against that community.
Shamdasani also added that the lack of clarity around the court's definition of LGBTQ movement left the law open to abuse.
The Russian ruling against what it called "the international LGBT social movement" is part of series of increasing restrictions on expressions of sexual orientation and gender identity in the country.
Russia, whose authorities have promoted an image of the country as a guardian of traditional values in contrast with a decadent West, has already outlawed the promotion of "non-traditional" sexual relations and banned legal or medical changes of gender.
Homosexuality in Russia was a criminal offence until 1993, and classified as a mental illness until 1999.
Since 2013, Russia has criminalized what it calls the "propaganda" of non-traditional sexual orientations to children.
Last year, that law was expanded to criminalize any action considered an attempt to promote homosexuality in public, online or in movies, books or advertising.
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