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# Update: Human Rights Watch condemn anti-LGBTQ+ bill in Hungary
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/update-human-rights-watch-condemn-anti-lgbtq-bill-in-hungary/
- Published: 2020-11-18T13:13:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-18T10:44:23.000Z
- Description: Non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Watch, has condemned the proposal of a new bill in Hungary which would prevent same-sex couples from adopting.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, Eu, Human Rights Watch, Hungary, LGBTQ, same-sex adoption, Zsolt Semjen

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Non-governmental organisation, **Human Rights Watch**, has [condemned](https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/11/18/hungary-intensified-attack-lgbt-people?ref=scenemag.co.uk) the proposal of a new bill in **Hungary** which would prevent same-sex couples from adopting. The new [regulations](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/hungary-proposes-ban-on-same-sex-couples-adopting/) would allow only married couples to adopt, and same-sex marriage is still criminalised in the country. It was backed by deputy prime minister, **Zsolt Semjen**, who said: *“They* \[same-sex couples\] *should not adopt children, because children’s right to healthy development is stronger than homosexual couples’ need for a child.”*

The Human Rights Watch described the bill as an ‘attack’ on the LGBTQ+ community, which the *“Hungarian parliament should reject resoundingly”*. It also highlighted the bill was at odds with new EU [regulations](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/eu-creates-greater-protections-for-lgbtq-people/) aimed at protecting the LGBTQ+ community in countries where there was growing discrimination. EU commission vice-president **Vera Jourova** said: *“We will defend the rights of LGBTQ+ people against those who now have more and more appetite to attack them from this ideological point of view”.*

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Prime minister Viktor Orban

[**Lydia Gall**](https://www.hrw.org/about/people/lydia-gall?ref=scenemag.co.uk), a researcher at Human Rights Watch, said: *“It seems nothing will derail this government from cruelly and pointlessly targeting one of the most marginalized groups in Hungarian society…Under the pretext of combatting a misguided conception of ‘gender ideology,’ the government further restricts rights and stigmatizes thousands of Hungarian citizens.”* The organisation also said the new legislation *“follows increasingly hostile anti-LGBTQ+ statements by high-ranking public officials,”* including the prime minister, **Viktor Orban**.