13/12/2025
BORROWED FROM GUSTE KAKEETO
Oral amendment (against "SOGI") to L.44/Rev.1 rejected 70Y-74N-15A
There is an attempt at the UN 3rd Committee in NewYork to include SOGI into the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its optional protocols.
November 20th 2025, the Organization of Islamic Countries sponsored an oral amendment to exclude SOGI language from the treaty. It came to a vote. A YES vote was a vote exclude the language and a NO vote essentially a vote to include the language. African states’ actions in this vote are telling. Of the 70 votes in favor (YES), 31 were African states. Of the 74 votes against, only two were African ie Cape Verde and South Africa. Meanwhile 6 of the 15 abstentions were abstentions were African (Angola, Congo, Eswatini, Ghana, Lesotho and Liberia). There were 34 countries in all who did not show up at all for the voting exercise. Of these, 15 are African.
The African Countries that did not show up for the vote are: Benin, Botswana, Comoros, DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sao Tome-Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone and South Sudan. One would wonder why this number of African states did not show up for the vote. Are they under too much pressure? Are they lacking instructions from their capitals on the issue?
Will this pattern change when the matter comes up for consideration again on Monday 15th December 2025!?!
