India Supreme Court Upholds Sodomy Law
Repost from BuzzFeed by J. Lester Feder The top court in the world’s second-largest nation says it’s up to parliament to decide on undoing the law criminalizing same-sex…
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For LGBT Donors, Russia Is The New Marriage
Repost from BuzzFeed, by J. Lester Feder Can the strategies that turned the U.S. LGBT movement into a money machine work when the fight goes abroad? Melissa Etheridge headlined…
Read moreU.S. Mission to the United Nations: Remarks at a Roundtable Strategy Session on International LGBT Rights
As delivered by Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations I’d like to welcome you to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and I’d…
Read moreThe History of LGBT Rights at the United Nations
For Human Rights Day, the OHCHR Free & Equal campaign released a new video that traces the evolution of the LGBT rights debate at the UN. It’s a…
Read moreHuman Rights: Advancing American Interests and Values
National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice addressed the participants of the Human Rights First 2013 Summit in Washington DC yesterday, in her speech Amb. Rice stressed that advancing…
Read moreThe IACHR creates Rapporteurship to address issues of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Body Diversity
Washington D.C. – On November 8, 2013, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) decided to create a Rapporteurship on the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and…
Read moreWhy Inclusion of Sexual Minorities Is Crucial to Gender Equality
Repost from The World Bank by Fabrice Houdart In previous articles we discussed why inclusion of sexual minorities is instrumental to the World Bank’s goal of shared prosperity…
Read moreTransgender Day of Remembrance Reminds Society That Trans Lives Are Valuable
Repost from The Huffington Post Blog – by Eòghann Renfroe Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day for all of us to come together to memorialize and honor…
Read moreOpen Letter to President Putin on Russia’s Discriminatory Anti-LGBT Laws
Washington DC, November 15, 2013 Dear President Putin: Like many of our generation, we have applauded Russia’s 20-year turn toward democracy, confident in the prospect it lays not only…
Read moreMalawi High Court weighs overturning anti-gay law
Repost from Erasing 76 Crimes Malawi’s anti-gay law faced a new challenge this week as the Malawi High Court decided to review the constitutionality of the country’s ban…
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