Global Equality Today: July 2022 Newsletter
It’s been quite the busy few months for the Council for Global Equality, for its 32 member organizations, and indeed for LGBTQI+ human rights advocates around the world.…
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Betraying Our Nation’s Promise of Equal Rights
June 24, 2022 – This morning, in a devastating attack on democracy broadly and on the rights of women and LGBTQI people specifically, the U.S. Supreme Court struck…
Read moreGroundbreaking Executive Order to Protect LBTQI Youth and Families and End Conversion Therapy
June 16, 2022 – CGE enthusiastically welcomes the new Executive Order Advancing LGBTQI+ Equality that introduces new measures to protect LGBTQI+ kids and families, in the United States…
Read moreAbout Pride, Liberation, and Freedom
June 1, 2022 – Happy Pride Month! This June, the Council for Global Equality and its member organizations celebrate 53 years since the Stonewall Inn rebellion. 53 years…
Read moreUrvashi Vaid: Friend, Mentor, and Champion of Global LGBTQI+ Advocacy
By Julie Dorf, Co-Chair, Council for Global Equality, May 19, 2022 — Last Saturday, after rallying for reproductive choice and before the news of the Buffalo shooting reached…
Read moreThe State Department’s Annual Human Rights Reports on LGBTQI Abuses
May 18, 2022 – The State Department recently released its annual human rights reports, the Congressionally mandated catalogue of human rights challenges around the globe. While not focused…
Read moreOur Bodies, Our Lives, Our Rights: IDAHOBIT 2022
May 17, 2022 – Today marks the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), and we welcome President Biden’s statement in which he joins “Americans across…
Read moreHope and Fear for LGBTQI Asylum-Seekers at the U.S.-Mexico Border
May 12, 2022 — Last week the Council for Global Equality hosted five members of Congress on a tour of two shelters for LGBTQI asylum-seekers in Tijuana, Mexico.…
Read moreTitle 42 Must Be Repealed to Protect LGBTQI and Other Vulnerable Refugees
April 21, 2022 – The Council for Global Equality welcomes the Biden Administration’s long overdue decision to end the use of Title 42, the discredited public health provision…
Read morePolicing Fashion and Freedom in Nigeria
April 21, 2022 – These are not easy days in Nigeria. Amid a global pandemic and severe inflation that have forced many Nigerians into untold hardship, there are…
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