A new video from the United Nations – warning countries who fail to protect LGBT people that they are breaking international – law has gone viral on YouTube.

The UN Human Rights office released the video on 14 May, telling LGBT people they are not alone and promising to work for their protection and freedom.

After Gay Star News highlighted the video others started to share it and it went from 368 views on YouTube to 65,000 now.

The video which features UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.

They warn countries that are failing to protect LGBT people from torture, discrimination and violence that they are breaking international law.

And they promise lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens around the world they are not alone and the UN will fight for their rights.

It will put particular pressure on the 76 countries the United Nations highlights as still criminalizing consensual gay sex.

Gay Star News contributor, Omar Kuddus, has been working to bring the video to the public’s attention.

In a Comment article for GSN, he said: ‘This message must be sent out to the world and endorsed by every government in the world. And it must become part of their foreign policy.

‘The video should be compulsory viewing in every school. And its message taught as part of every academic curriculum across the globe. We have to make it clear that discrimination and homophobia will no longer be tolerated.

‘We as LGBT people are not second-class citizens but under international law of human rights entitled to equality, as part of the human race.’

You can watch the video here: