An LGBT Response to the State Department’s UPR Report
By Julie Dorf, Senior Advisor The best part of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s livid reaction to the U.S. report to the United Nations on our country’s human rights…
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Human Rights Defenders Combating Discrimination to Receive 2010 Honors
Press Release from Human Rights First CONTACT: Brenda Bowser Soder bowsersoderb@humanrightsfirst.org C: 301-906-4460, W: 202-370-3323 New York City – Human Rights First will present its 2010 Human Rights…
Read moreThe United States Government Submits Its Report to the UN for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
August 23, 2010 – Today the United States released its self-evaluating Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report to the United Nation’s Human Rights Council outlining human rights conditions in…
Read moreEditor’s Letter: Working toward making international human rights a bigger priority.
From The Advocate September 2010 By Jon Barrett When news of Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill broke last year, there was a sense of—in my head at least—There…
Read moreMarriage Rights Are Spreading Across the Americas: Will the U.S. Supreme Court Take Notice?
by Mark Bromley, Council for Global Equality Earlier this month, a federal District Court judge in California, in the now-famous case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, ruled that California’s…
Read moreMexican States Ordered to Honor Gay Marriages
repost from the New York Times | By DAVID AGREN | published on August 10, 2010 MEXICO CITY — The Mexican Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that each of…
Read moreStatement by the President on UN Accreditation of the ILGHRC
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release July 19, 2010 Statement by the President on UN Accreditation of the ILGHRC I welcome this…
Read moreRemarks by Ambassador Rosemary A. DiCarlo, U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, during an Economic and Social Council Debate on the Accreditation of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Rosemary A. DiCarlo Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations U.S. Mission to the United Nations New York, NY July 19, 2010 AS DELIVERED Mr. President, for over 20…
Read moreUnited Nations Grants Official Status to U.S.-based International LGBT Rights Group
repost from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) A victory against homophobic silencing of civil society 07/19/2010 For Immediate Release Press Contacts: Sara Perle, New…
Read moreLGBT, Immigration, Civil Rights and Faith Groups Praise Congress for United Effort to End Discrimination Against Lesbian & Gay Binational Families
July 15, 2010 For Immediate Release Contact: Steve Ralls (202) 347-7007 / sralls (at) imeqactionfund.org WASHINGTON, DC – A coalition of organizations and leaders from the lesbian, gay,…
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