State Department Reports on Bias-Motivated Violence
April 21, 2016 – Last week, the State Department released its accounting of human rights abuses committed in 2015. As usual, this year’s human rights report offers disturbing pictures…
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Nisha Ayub Receives the 2016 Woman of Courage Award
The Council for Global Equality congratulates Nisha Ayub, Director of SEED Malaysia, for receiving the 2016 Woman of Courage award from Secretary of State John Kerry at a…
Read moreMichael Guest: Anti-immigrant rhetoric ‘painful to hear’
Repost from the Washington Blade Former U.S. Ambassador to Romania Michael Guest on Monday spoke forcefully against the anti-immigrant rhetoric that many Republican presidential candidates have used on…
Read moreIndia: Supreme Court Revisits “Sodomy” Law
Repost from Human Rights Watch India’s Supreme Court agreed on February 2, 2016, to hear an appeal of its2013 decision that upheld a discriminatory law criminalizing same-sex relations,…
Read moreHHS is First Federal Agency to Prohibit Discrimination in Services in Overseas Contracts
As of February 1, 2016, all foreign entities that enter into contracts with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (which includes the National Institutes of Health…
Read moreLGBT Human Rights and Foreign Policy
The Council for Global Equality posted a series of four blog posts on LGBT human rights issues and foreign policy over the past week. The posts touch on…
Read moreMatters of the Heart
Our country increasingly has come to terms with the need for fairness toward LGBT Americans – and few have questioned the premise that LGBT human rights abuse, like…
Read moreGovernments and Human Rights
The Council pays particular attention to the role that foreign governments play, or fail to play, in preserving and advancing the rights of their LGBT citizens. In our…
Read moreLGBT Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy
A December 20 New York Times story alleged that U.S. attention to discrimination and hate crimes against LGBT people in Nigeria had worsened, in fact, their plight. Others…
Read moreThe Place of Human Rights
Another new year. Another chance to put things right. For the Council for Global Equality, that means elevating the place of human rights – including those of LGBT,…
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