LGBTs have a voice in foreign affairs
Op-Ed as it appears in the Bay Area Reporter, written by The Council for Global Equality, Senior Advisor, Michael Guest When it comes to the rights of LGBT…
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Liberia’s Senate to Consider Anti-Gay Bill
repost from New York Times Liberia’s Senate will consider a bill Thursday to strengthen the nation’s existing anti-gay laws, a senator said, as another West African nation, Cameroon,…
Read moreLGBT Case Goes to Supreme Court in India
February 17, 2012 – This week, as many of us celebrated Valentine’s Day with our loved ones, an important legal challenge moved forward in India that will impact…
Read moreSexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) Outraged by the Closure of the LGBTI Capacity Development Workshop by the State Minister of Ethics and Integrity Rev. Fr. Simon Lokodo
KAMPALA- February 15, 2012 Exactly one week after the re-tabling of the Anti Homosexuality Bill (2009) by MP David Bahati, a workshop organized by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender…
Read moreVisiting Evangelist Assures Uganda’s LGBTI “Not all American Christian Preachers are Anti-Gay”
A visiting American evangelist, Pastor Joseph Tolton, has criticised Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Bill saying the conservative US evangelicals who backed the legislation “have lost the moral and cultural…
Read moreScope of Interagency Influence and Authority
Over the past three days, we’ve laid out a number of key issues to be grappled with as the U.S. government meshes its foreign assistance programs with the…
Read moreConditionality in U.S. Foreign Assistance
LGBT hate crimes and other abuses are a clear concern in a number of countries. Our developmental assistance policy-makers inevitably will confront the question of whether – and…
Read moreWorking Toward Policy Coherence
U.S. assistance programs must, like overall U.S. foreign policy, be grounded in U.S. principles. We believe it a moral imperative that our assistance programs embrace the rights and…
Read moreOpening up U.S. assistance programs to LGBT populations
A little green dot marks December 6 on our calendar for last year. That’s the day the President issued his Memorandum instructing all USG foreign affairs agencies to…
Read moreForeign Assistance Blog Series
Beginning Monday, February 6, The Council for Global Equality will begin a four-part series of blog postings on foreign assistance. The postings will cover issues impacting foreign assistance…
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