It is an “essential” fight, affirms Emmanuel Macron. This is why the President of the Republic announced on Sunday evening that France will host the next World Congress for the Universal Abolition of the Death Penalty in 2026. This practice is still widespread in Saudi Arabia, China and Iran and has not been abolished in a democratic country like the United States.
On December 10, 1948, the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, where this celebration was organized this Sunday. Emmanuel Macron stressed that the principles laid down were neither “cultural” nor “Western” and were “open to all people”.
LGBT+ rights
” It’s necessary […] raise your voice when it is necessary, to defend this precious heritage, to remember that it was built on the refusal of the violence and dehumanization of the Second World War”, underlined the president citing the need to work in in favor of women’s rights which are violated, particularly in Afghanistan and Iran.
In this very broad speech, he also insisted on the fight for the rights of LGBT+ people. “We cannot accept, even today, that anyone can be judged based on their sexual orientation. This fight is very far from being won,” he declared, deploring the penalization of homosexuality “carried by relativist discourses on many continents”, or “carried by religious and traditionalist discourses which are completely falsified “.
We must also “obviously” fight against pedophilia and child pornography, also said the French president, also mentioning the problem of harassment which continues on social networks.