[RIO DE JANEIRO] A majority of judges in Brazil's top court has voted to criminalise homophobia in a move welcomed by campaigners concerned about a rollback in gay rights and the murder of hundreds of LGBT+ people every year.
The court will resume voting in the first week of June, and, after the remaining judges vote, the ruling will go into effect.Felipe Carvalho, president of the Niteroi Diversity Group, a non-profit that focuses on rights for LGBT+ people, said the vote was a"very significant step"."This won't end LGBT-phobia, but it opens a number of possibilities for us," Carvalho told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The court's judges said their ruling addressed a failure by lawmakers to legally protect the LGBT+ community. Human rights campaigners expected that the Supreme Court ruling would put pressure on lawmakers to finally act.
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