December 21, 2010 – In an important victory for LGBT rights on the floor of the UN General Assembly today, 93 countries supported a human rights resolution condemning…
Read moreListen to Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s report on the anti-gay atmosphere permeating Uganda. The story includes audio from her interview with the “kill the gays” bill author David Bahati…
Read morerepost from The AP By ANITA SNOW| The Associated Press Sunday, December 19, 2010 UNITED NATIONS — A culture war has broken out at the United Nations over…
Read moreU.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice announced on Friday that the U.S. will press for a major UN vote to restore language in a resolution on extrajudicial…
Read morerepost from the Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post | Foreign Service Sunday, December 12, 2010; A12 KAMPALA, UGANDA – Persecution of gays is intensifying across Africa,…
Read moreUN, New York, Dec. 10—In a speech at a UN event to mark International Human Rights Day, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice today announced that the U.S. will press…
Read moreThe Council was pleased to see Rachel Maddow expose the stereotypes and prejudice that animate David Bahati, the parliamentarian who authored the “anti-homosexuality” bill in Uganda, on her…
Read moreRe-posted from The Christian Science Monitor By Scott Baldauf, Staff writer / December 8, 2010 Johannesburg, South Africa Long seen as a fringe societal taboo far from the realm…
Read moreThe Council is pleased to learn that the organizers of the conference that Mr. Bahati is traveling to Washington DC to attend have decided that he will no…
Read moreWe are disappointed to learn that the Ugandan Parliamentarian who introduced the “kill the gays” bill may be in Washington this month for an international conference. We encourage…
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