UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivers a speech at the Zambian Parliament on February 24, 2012 in Lusaka.

The United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has urged states to recognise and respect homosexuality.
Mr Ban, who arrived in Zambia on Friday, made the remarks when he met country's first president Kenneth Kaunda in Lusaka Saturday.
He said gays have rights that all nations should respect.
“I understand this is something that is not common here," said Ban. "I think they should be treated as human beings .The United Nations cares about those people,” Mr Ban added.
In response to the UN official's counsel, Mr Kaunda said he appreciated the call for the respect of human rights for it was important globally. In 2010, the former president dismissed calls to tolerate homosexuality terming it ungodly.
In Zambia, like other parts of Africa, the idea of homosexuality as a human right has been met with resistance.