Tue Apr 18, 2023 – 4:14 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A recent United Nations document calls for the decriminalization of sex with minors along with prostitution, drug use, and abortion.
“The International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) along with UNAIDS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) officially launched a new set of expert jurist legal principles to guide the application of international human rights law to criminal law,” an introduction on UNAIDS.org reads.
The new “legal principles” document starts with another introduction from Edwin Cameron, a retired South African judge who notes how his experience as a “gay man” helped inform his work on this project.
“From long years in the law, and as a proudly gay man, I know profoundly how criminal law signals which groups are deemed worthy of protection – and which of condemnation and ostracism,” he wrote. “In this way, the criminal law performs an expressive function – and it has dramatic consequences on people’s lives. It sometimes entails a harshly discriminatory impact on groups identified with the disapproved or stigmatised conduct.”
Though the document came out on March 8, International Women’s Day, it only recently started to
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