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<p>Humanist Parties throughout the world supporting:</p>
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<li>Abolition of all laws that criminalise those who are LGBT and demand the immediate release of all the thousands of people around the world who have been imprisoned as a result.</li>

<li>Implement and improve anti-discrimination laws to make illegal all forms of discrimination whether on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, beliefs or ideology, disability, place of birth, etc. </li>

<li>Introduction of legislation, where it does not exist, to allow same sex couples to be treated as couples with equal rights and responsibilities to heterosexual couples, including the areas of; civil marriage, personal taxation law, pensions, rights of adoption, inheritance law, access to health services and visitation rights for sick partners in hospitals, child custody, immigration rights for partners who are from different countries, etc. </li>

<li>Introduction of legislation to allow people to alter the gender that appears on their personal documentation and on state records.</li>

<li>Insofar as Humanist Parties propose free, good quality health-care for all, we would add that those people who wish to change their gender through surgery are freely given this option by the state, along with access to good quality medical and psychological support before, during and after the surgery.</li>

<li>In terms of education and especially sex-education at school, we propose legislation to re-design sex education to make sure that children are informed about the different types of sexualities that exist without actively promoting homosexuality or bisexuality or discriminating against them either. Large numbers of children with LGBT issues commit or attempt suicide due to a feeling of inadequacy promoted by an education system that discriminates against them.</li>

<li>We also propose that it is necessary to develop programmes of non-violence and non-discrimination in schools and through this prevent bullying in schools from the authorities, teachers and fellow students against children who are coming to terms with LGBT issues.</li>

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