Editing Right to sexuality (section)

==Acts of violence==
Acts of violence against LGBT people are often especially vicious compared to other [[hate crime|bias-motivated crime]]s<ref>[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/19session/A.HRC.19.41_English.pdf Report on Discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity], UN Human Rights Council, 17 November 2011, at [22].</ref> and include killings, kidnappings, beatings, rape, and psychological violence, including threats, coercion and arbitrary depravations of liberty.<ref>[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/19session/A.HRC.19.41_English.pdf Report on Discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity], UN Human Rights Council, 17 November 2011, at [20].</ref>

Examples of violent acts against people of diverse sexual orientation are too numerous to account here, and they occur in all parts of the world. A particularly distressing example is the sexual assault and murder of fifteen lesbians in [[Thailand]] in March 2012. In that example, two lesbian couples were killed by men who objected to their relationship and who were embarrassed when they were unable to convince the women into heterosexual relationships with themselves.<ref>[http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/pressroom/pressrelease/1506.html Thai police ignore fifteen killings of lesbians and toms] (27 March 2012) International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, press release.</ref>

Often acts of violence against people of diverse sexual orientation are perpetrated by the victim's own family. In a case in [[Zimbabwe]], the multiple rape of a lesbian was organised by her own family in an attempt to "cure" her of homosexuality.<ref>[http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G02/104/28/PDF/G0210428.pdf?OpenElement Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences] Commission on Human Rights, 31 January 2002, E/CN.4/2002/83 at [102].</ref>

In those cases, as in many other cases of violence against people of diverse sexual orientation, State law enforcement authorities are complicit in human rights abuses for failing to persecute violators of rights.