LGBTQ+ activists and others demonstrated in front of the Hungarian parliament on Monday, as they urged lawmakers to abandon draft laws banning content portraying or promoting homosexuality or sex reassignment to anyone under 18.
Fidesz, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's conservative ruling party, presented the legislation last week and plans to vote on the bills on Tuesday.
They include a measure aimed at fighting paedophilia along with other amendments prohibiting transmitting information about LGBT people or same-sex relationships to youth.
Fidesz describes the legislation as an effort to protect children from paedophilia.
But Lydia Gall, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, said equating sexual and gender diversity with pedophilia attacked the dignity of LGBT people and risked putting them in danger.
Gall called the legislation "a cynical, distasteful and deliberate attempt by the Orban government to trample the rights of LGBT people and essentially make them invisible in Hungarian society".
Dunja Mijatovic, the commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights body, asked Hungarian lawmakers to reject the legislation.
The Hungarian amendments would outlaw any depiction or discussion of different gender identity and sexual orientation in public, including in schools and the media.
Some human rights groups have compared the planned ban to a discriminatory 2013 Russian law banning so-called gay "propaganda," widely viewed as a tool of discrimination.
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