A Day of History and Hope
As we celebrate the inauguration today, “a day of history and hope,” in a “winter of peril and significant possibilities,” in the words of President Biden’s inaugural address,…
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Minimum Requirement for Foreign Affairs Posts in the Biden-Harris Administration: LGBTQI+ Competency
January 19, 2021 – Today the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a nomination hearing for our next Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. Given the unprecedented challenges facing…
Read moreFree Nicholas Opiyo
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…
Read moreRejecting Refugees on Human Rights Day
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…
Read moreCouncil for Global Equality Releases Biden-Harris Transition Paper
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…
Read moreThe Congressional Race to Chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee
The Council for Global Equality, together with its leading human rights membership organizations, released a public letter today calling on House Democrats to vote for a new Congressional…
Read morePompeo’s Commission on Unalienable Rights – What Our Country Never Was and What Our Human Rights Policy Should Never Be
July 16, 2020 — The penny drops. Today, Mike Pompeo pompously unveiled a long-awaited report that could sharply limit our country’s advocacy for human rights around the world.…
Read moreCalling for Pride at State Department
The Council for Global Equality joined member organizations today to call on Secretary Pompeo to recognize LGBTI Pride month, despite his failure to do so last year. Pride…
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Read moreA Call to Action for IDAHOBIT
May 17 – We’ve not yet seen whether the State Department will issue, this year, a statement celebrating “IDAHOBIT” — the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and…
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