Individuals participates in 2024 Seoul Queer Tradition Pageant in Jung District, Seoul, June 1. Korea Instances file
The nationwide human rights watchdog decided Monday that denying rental areas for a pageant for sexual minorities on the grounds of potential conflicts with opposition teams constitutes a discriminatory act.
The Nationwide Human Rights Fee (NHRC) issued the choice in opposition to the Seoul Museum of Historical past and the Seoul metropolis authorities’s public actions assist heart after they refused to hire their areas for this 12 months’s Seoul Queer Tradition Pageant, the most important native pageant for lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transgender people.
The pageant’s organizing committee had beforehand requested that the 2 establishments hire areas for a lecture by an American human rights activist in April, however each requests have been denied on the grounds that it might trigger social conflicts and disrupt the museum’s operations. The pageant’s aspect subsequently filed a petition with the rights watchdog.
The NHRC decided on Monday that the denial of house rental was a groundless violation of the best to equality, recommending that the establishments revise their operational rules to forestall a recurrence
“If the establishments’ arguments are accepted, sexual minority teams can be unable to make use of the services sooner or later … leading to these establishments, meant to assist residents’ public actions, arbitrarily proscribing numerous civic actions,” the fee stated. (Yonhap)
