00:01The European Commission announced a non-binding recommendation to end conversion practices
00:06targeting LGBTQI plus people. The bloc's Equality Chief Hajj Al-Abib called conversion therapy
00:13torture and said it is up to the EU to react and combat these practices.
00:18It's a torture and it's a physical and psychological harassment that could lead
00:24to a deep depression or suicide and that's why we need really to react and to combat these practices
00:33and these young citizens who gather one million signatures succeed to create awareness.
00:40We've launched a study and we are going to organize to put into a place a forum for discussion
00:47between member states, between the Commission.
00:49The resolution, however, is non-binding and falls short of the EU-wide ban on conversion practices
00:55that advocates have demanded. When asked why the executive had not gone as far,
01:01Labib admitted a lack of unanimity among member states.
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