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In the 1980s, early United Nations reports on the [[HIV/AIDS pandemic]] made some reference to homosexuality.
In its 1994 decision in ''[[Toonen v. Australia]]'', the UN Human Rights Committee—which is responsible for the [[International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]] (ICCPR)—declared that laws criminalizing consensual same-sex relations between adults are in violation of international human rights law.<ref name="ai-usa">{{cite press release |title=United Nations: General assembly to address sexual orientation and gender identity - Statement affirms promise of Universal Declaration of Human Rights |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |date=12 December 2008 |url=
In September 1995, sexual orientation became a topic of debate in the negotiations on the Draft of the 1995 [[Beijing Platform for Action]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Women's Sexual Autonomy Universality, Sexual Rights, and Sexual Orientation at |url=https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/viewFile/12095/11178 |access-date=2021-06-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Vol 16, No 3 (1996) |url=https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/issue/view/538/showToc |access-date=2021-06-17 |website=cws.journals.yorku.ca |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=SexPolitics - Front Lines |url=http://www.sxpolitics.org/frontlines/book/index.php |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=www.sxpolitics.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Girard |first=Françoise |title=Negotiating Sexual Rights and Sexual Orientation at the UN |url=http://www.sxpolitics.org/frontlines/book/pdf/capitulo9_united_nations.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=2021-12-07}}</ref> at the 4th [[World Conference on Women, 1995|World Conference on Women]]. While the proposed language on "sexual orientation" was eventually dropped from the text, it was the first time governments took a public and explicit stance for or against the inclusion and recognition of sexual orientation as part of women's right to control their sexuality. At this conference, [[Beverley Palesa Ditsie]] became the first openly lesbian person to address the United Nations regarding LGBT issues, calling for States to adopt resolutions that recognized sexual diversity.
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