Deteriorating Human Rights in The Gambia
May 3, 2016 – The Council for Global Equality joined 15 leading human rights organizations in writing to the State Department and the White House this week to…
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State Department Reports on Bias-Motivated Violence
April 21, 2016 – Last week, the State Department released its accounting of human rights abuses committed in 2015. As usual, this year’s human rights report offers disturbing pictures…
Read moreMichael Guest: Anti-immigrant rhetoric ‘painful to hear’
Repost from the Washington Blade Former U.S. Ambassador to Romania Michael Guest on Monday spoke forcefully against the anti-immigrant rhetoric that many Republican presidential candidates have used on…
Read moreIndia: Supreme Court Revisits “Sodomy” Law
Repost from Human Rights Watch India’s Supreme Court agreed on February 2, 2016, to hear an appeal of its2013 decision that upheld a discriminatory law criminalizing same-sex relations,…
Read moreHHS is First Federal Agency to Prohibit Discrimination in Services in Overseas Contracts
As of February 1, 2016, all foreign entities that enter into contracts with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (which includes the National Institutes of Health…
Read moreLGBT Human Rights and Foreign Policy
The Council for Global Equality posted a series of four blog posts on LGBT human rights issues and foreign policy over the past week. The posts touch on…
Read moreLGBT Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy
A December 20 New York Times story alleged that U.S. attention to discrimination and hate crimes against LGBT people in Nigeria had worsened, in fact, their plight. Others…
Read moreAssistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Tom Malinowski and Ugandan Activist Frank Mugisha Respond to New York Times article “U.S. Support of Gay Rights in Africa May Have Done More Harm Than Good”
To the Editor: “American Support for Gay Rights May Leave Africans Vulnerable” (front page, Dec. 21) does a disservice to Africans and others around the world defending human…
Read moreNigerian activists respond to New York Times article “U.S. Support of Gay Rights in Africa May Have Done More Harm Than Good”
The Coalition for the Defense of Sexual Rights (CDSR) has issued a statement regarding the recent article published by New York Times alleging that US supports for LGBT…
Read moreEngel Statement on Efforts to Advance LGBT Rights in Inter-American Development Bank Projects in the Americas
Press Statement from House Committee on Foreign Affairs Democratic Office WASHINGTON, DC—Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, made the following…
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