#Bocconi4equality/Pride. A World Divided
"The attitude of public authorities of a state towards the Pride Day tends to be a fairly accurate litmus test of the more general level of protection in that society of human rights guaranteed by international law," Roger O'Keefe, professor of international law at the Department of Legal Studies at Bocconi University, explains in the #Bocconi4equality video. "There where everything takes place without problems means that more generally rights are safeguarded and guaranteed - instead in countries where the parade is banned it means that human rights guaranteed by international law are less protected and not observed. Indeed in many of these states being Lgbt is equivalent to a death sentence. We must not forget", continues O'Keefe, "those states in which many brave men and women insist on the observance by the state of those rights.”