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Libya’s UN Delegate: Gays Affect Humanity’s Survival | Libya’s Deputy Envoy to the United Nations told the UN’s Human Rights Council that LGBT issues “affect religion and the continuation and reproduction of the human race.” Ibrahim Dabbashi also said that Libya, which was reinstated to the Council last November after the ouster and death of Muammar Gaddafi, would have voted against a resolution on human rights for gay and transgender people which passed the Council last June. The Executive Director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, criticized the statement, saying that it “underscores the serious questions we have about whether the new regime is genuinely committed to improving on the dark record of its predecessor, or to pandering to some of the hardline Islamists amidst its ranks.”
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