Out of Harm’s Way
Repost from The Advocate NEARLY SIX MONTHS AGO, the White House unveiled a global blueprint for promoting and protecting the rights of LGBT individuals, countless numbers of whom…
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Remarks on Anti-Semitism and Human Rights for LGBT People for the Cream City Foundation
Repost from State.gov By Hannah Rosenthal Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Milwaukee, Wisconsin May 30, 2012 As a child of a Holocaust survivor, anti-Semitism is something very personal…
Read moreWidespread Pattern of Abuses Against LGBT People Worldwide
Washington, DC – May 25, 2012 – The Department of State’s 2011 Human Rights Report, released yesterday, catalogues an ongoing range of abuses and discriminatory treatment directed at…
Read moreSecretary Clinton To Release Annual Human Rights Reports
On May 24, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Michael Posner will release the 2011 Country Reports on Human…
Read moreU.S. Embassy and Blue Diamond Society Partner to Make Disaster Risk Reduction LGBTI-Inclusive
April 27, 2012– The U.S. Embassy partnered with the Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) rights organization at a workshop this morning to discuss…
Read morePride March Support Statement by Ambassador John F. Tefft
March 2012- As Ambassador of the United States of America in Kyiv, I would like to express my support and the support of my country to all those who…
Read moreU.S. Amb. Ian Kelly Statement On LGBT Rights In Russian Federation And Moldova
Geneva, Switzerland Ambassador Ian Kelly March 22, 2012 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We take this moment to subscribe to the joint statement of Canada, Iceland, Switzerland, and Norway…
Read moreLGBTs 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…
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…
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