President Barack Obama today announced the designation of Presidential Delegations to the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russian Federation. Presidential Delegation…
Read moreRepost from Time A controversial Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday morning that reinstated an archaic colonial law criminalizing homosexuality incited outrage among activists and gay-rights supporters in India. Hundreds gathered at…
Read moreRepost 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…
Read moreRepost 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 moreAs 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 moreFor 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 moreNational 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 moreWashington 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 moreRepost 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 moreRepost 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…
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