SOGI Mandate Safeguarded in Face of Hostility
Joint Civil Society Press Statement 21 November 2016 (New York) — The United Nations mandate of the Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) has been…
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Statement by Secretary Kerry: Transgender Day of Remembrance
Repost from U.S. Department of State On Transgender Day of Remembrance, the United States solemnly honors the memory of the many transgender individuals who lost their lives to…
Read moreWhen The U.S. Backs Gay And Lesbian Rights In Africa, Is There A Backlash?
Repost from NPR Everyone knew President Obama would say something about gay rights when he made his visit to Kenya last summer. Many American activists were pressing him…
Read moreHouse LGBT Caucus Remembers Slain Turkish Transgender Activist Hande Kader
Press Statement – Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus Washington, D.C. – The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus mourned the senseless murder of 22-year-old Turkish transgender activist Hande Kader and called on the…
Read moreMark Bromley Testifies Before the U.S. Congress
Council Chair Mark Bromley testified before the U.S. Congress in a hearing focused on “Human Rights Under Siege Worldwide.” The hearing was convened on the one-month anniversary of…
Read moreRemarks by Ambassador Samantha Power at the White House Dialogue on Global LGBT Human Rights
Ambassador Samantha Power U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations U.S. Mission to the United Nations Washington, DC June 29, 2016 AS DELIVERED It’s amazing to be here…
Read moreLGBTQ Organizations Call for Unity in the Wake of Orlando Shooting
Statement in Arabic, Spanish, and French We the undersigned organizations working on the front lines of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) movement share in the…
Read moreState 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…
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…
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