BRATISLAVA, May 11, (WEBNOVINY) — Deputy Prime Minister for Human Rights and Ethnic Groups Rudolf Chmel failed to push through a proposal to establish a new committee dedicated to the rights of non-heterosexual individuals. Chmel was supposed to chair the Committee for Rights of Non-Heterosexual Individuals if approved. However, the Cabinet gave it a thumbs down. The proposal missed a single vote to be approved. It was again the KDH that refused to back the committee. However, also all ministers for the SDKU-DS except for Prime Minister Iveta Radicova opposed the concept, too.
Chmel submitted the proposal as part of the suggestion to change the statute of the Cabinet’s Council for Human Rights, Ethnic Groups and Gender Equality. The committee was to serve as Council’s permanent advisory body. The initially proposed name of the body was Committee for Rights of Lesbian Women, Gays, Bisexual and Transgender Individuals. Ministers representing the KDH objected to the committee in the past. The statute of the Cabinet’s Council was approved on March 2. Six of seven proposed committees received the go-ahead. The Committee fore Rights of Lesbian Women, Gays, Bisexual and Transgender Individuals was abandoned as the KDH demanded.
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