# Deputy Minister for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Mmapaseka Letsike, has welcomed the Human Sciences Research Council report showing growing public support for the inclusion, equality and human dignity of LGBTIQ+ persons in South Africa. She says the findings reflect encouraging progress in advancing the universal principles that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. She adds that the report reaffirms South Africa’s constitutional values of human dignity, equality, freedom and non-discrimination, while affirming the country’s commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Government welcomes growing support for LGBTIQ+ inclusion