The Council for Global Equality is a coalition of prominent U.S.-based human rights and LGBTI advocacy organizations that together encourage a clear U.S. voice for the human rights for LGBTI communities around the world. Read our 2020 Transition Papers: Centering the Rights of LGBTI Individuals in U.S. Foreign Policy.
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On Tuesday, Ugandan officials unjustly arrested celebrated human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo. In violation of Ugandan law as well as both international and African human rights law, the LGBTI+ rights and civil liberties advocate is now being dangerously and unjustifiably detained along with several other human rights lawyers including a member of the Ugandan opposition […]
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December 10, 2020—Today is International Human Rights Day, marking the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the birth of the modern human rights movement at the United Nations. To our national shame, the Trump Administration today also released new asylum regulations that gut asylum protections in the United States, tragically turning […]
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The Council today released a new transition policy paper to encourage the incoming Biden-Harris Administration to adopt detailed proposals for each foreign affairs agency to center the rights of LGBTI individuals in U.S. Foreign Policy. Read our proposal for Centering the Rights of LGBTI Individuals in U.S. Foreign Policy: A Pathway to Effective Global Leadership. […]
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