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Bachelet highlights LGBTQ rights abuses in U.N. Human Rights Council speech

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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday highlighted LGBTQ rights abuses in Poland and Honduras during her speech at the opening of the U.N.

Human Rights Council’s latest session in Geneva. Bachelet expressed concern “about the continuing repression of LGBTI people and activists (in Poland), including restrictions on their freedom of assembly, and the government’s support for towns that have termed themselves — using unacceptable language — ‘LGBTI-free zones.'” A magazine that supports Polish President Andrzej Duda’s government last summer distributed “LGBT-free zone” stickers.

Duda in June said LGBTQ “ideology” is more harmful than communism. Justyna Nakielska of Kampania Przeciw Homofobii, a Polish LGBTQ

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