Appeals to the Red Cross organizations on the issue of discrimination by the Secretary General of the Belarusian Red Cross Society
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On October 18, 2022, the Secretary General of the Belarusian Red Cross Society (BORC), doctor Dzmitry Shautsou, spoke on the STV channel about gender identity and sexual orientation. His comment contained discriminatory and stigmatizing theses, in particular, that "non-traditional relationships between the sexes" are a "mental illness" that "needs to be treated."
Experts of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee in collaboration with the Belarusian Medical Solidarity Foundation sent to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights information requested by the High Commissioner from civic society organizations from all over the world.