Four nonprofits are urging the United Nations to pressure the federal government to protect LGBTQ+ residents of Texas.
A coalition of four nonprofit organizations is asking the United Nations to take action to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ Texans.sent from Equality Texas, ACLU of Texas, GLAAD, and Human Rights Campaign to over a dozen independent experts, working groups, and special rapporteurs at the U.N. asks the international body to intercede in what the nonprofits called a “human rights crisis” in our state.
Although legal challenges have already been launched against some of the bills, Gooch said the impetus to file the letter came after getting frustrated while “waiting on the federal government to do something.” The letter asks the U.N.
The letter was crafted with assistance from University of Texas at Austin School of Law’s Human Rights Clinic, a program where law students take up human rights cases both in the United States and abroad. In a press release, Ariel Dulitzky, a clinical professor at law and the clinic’s director, suggested the state was also in violation of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“Many times it’s one additional element that can help move the needle in a positive direction,” Dulitzky concluded.
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