LGBT Case Goes to Supreme Court in India
February 17, 2012 – This week, as many of us celebrated Valentine’s Day with our loved ones, an important legal challenge moved forward in India that will impact…
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Scope of Interagency Influence and Authority
Over the past three days, we’ve laid out a number of key issues to be grappled with as the U.S. government meshes its foreign assistance programs with the…
Read moreConditionality in U.S. Foreign Assistance
LGBT hate crimes and other abuses are a clear concern in a number of countries. Our developmental assistance policy-makers inevitably will confront the question of whether – and…
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…
Read moreDeMint wrong on gay rights
Repost from the Post and Courrier Written by Michael Guest, Senior Advisor to The Council for Global Equality The contrast could not be starker. In a Human Rights…
Read moreCommunity Call with Deputy Assistant Secretary Dan Baer
Join the Council for Global Equality on January 26 at 12 PM (EST) for a community briefing call with Deputy Assistant Secretary Dan Baer, who will discuss the…
Read moreHilary Clinton’s landmark Human Rights Day speech
Op Ed by Julie Dorf, Senior Advisor, The Council for Global Equality As I listened to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s landmark Human Rights Day speech last…
Read moreA Changed U.S. State Department
By former U.S. ambassador to Romania and Senior Advisor to The Council for Global Equality, Michael Guest Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s December 6 Geneva speech on…
Read moreLGBT Activists from Around the World React to Secretary Clinton’s Speech
December 9, 2011 – For this historic moment in the LGBT movement, the Council for Global Equality was privileged to bring 14 prominent LGBT activists from around the…
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