“Governments, including the United States, must work to ensure that all individuals can freely enjoy the human rights and fundamental freedoms to which they are entitled.” The spokesperson of the US State Department comments on Italy’s failure to sign, together with other countries such as Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, the ‘Declaration on the continuous progress of the human rights of LGBTIQ people in Europe’. A clear choice of side by the Meloni government and its majority in support of the conservative line of the countries governed by the sovereignist right and polemical towards the rights policy promoted by the European Union.
LGBT+ rights, Italy bringing up the rear in Europe and Asia, also surpassed by Orban’s Hungary. “This is what happens with far-right governments”
by Eugenia Nicolosi
May 15, 2024
“Although we continue to see great progress for LGBTQI+ equality in Europe, including Liechtenstein, which has just legalized same-sex marriage – continues the official responding to a question from LaPresse – we remain concerned by the proliferation of anti-democratic rhetoric that defames LGBTQI+ people and their families when they push for respect for their human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
The official also emphasizes that “the United States proudly leads efforts around the world to protect LGBTQI+ people from violence and abuse, criminalization, discrimination and stigma. We stand in solidarity with LGBTQI+ people around the world. world, who act, often at great risk, in defense of their human rights”, concludes the State Department spokesperson.
