Russia asks UN to put recognition of same-sex marriage for 43,000 staff worldwide to a vote this Tuesday Current policy is to recognize same-sex marriages among its staff, Previously UN workers’ personal status was determined by the laws of their country of nationality. Russia wants the general assembly’s fifth committee, which is responsible for the UN budget, to overturn the policy. .
Vladimir Putin has claimed there is no anti-gay discrimination in Russia, which decriminalised homosexuality in 1993. However, in 2013 President Putin signed into law a ban on “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” .