Tag: LGBT rights
With Endorsement from Target, Corporate Support for Equality Act Continues to Grow
Fortune 500 company makes clear that it supports explicit protections from discrimination in federal law.
Parliament demands EU action on LGBTI rights
Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted a new comprehensive report on fundamental rights in the EU. Defying an attempt by the EPP group to adopt an alternative report which would have deleted nearly all content on LGBTI rights and other relevant Rainbow Europe human rights issues, the final report includes an extensive section of the situation for LGBTI people (par. 85 – 92).
Supreme Court Declines Emergency Stay Request from Anti-LGBT Rowan County Clerk
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined a petition from Kentucky’s Rowan County clerk Kim Davis for an emergency stay on a court order requiring her to immediately start issuing marriage licenses to all eligible applicants, including same-sex couples. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, welcomed the news as affirmation that personal religious opinions of public officials should not trump the fundamental rights of LGBT Americans.
In A Historic First, U.N. Security Council Convenes to Discuss LGBT Rights
HRC hailed the leadership of U.S Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power and her Chilean counterpart Ambassador Cristian Barros Melet for holding the first ever U.N. Security Council meeting on LGBT rights later today. Open to all U.N. member states, the gathering will focus on the appalling abuse and violence being perpetrated against LGBT people in areas in which ISIS exerts control.
Iran: Tatchell in gay, spy & terror smear
Iran’s Rahyab News has made bizarre, fabricated claims that LGBT and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is linked to Britain’s spy agency MI6 and to Arab terrorist organisations.
HRC Stands with Kenyan LGBT Activists Who Suffer Violence and Discrimination in Their Country
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, commended President Obama for his comments about the need to respect human rights for all people. At a press conference yesterday in Nairobi, Kenya, President Obama said countries should not discriminate based on sexual orientation, while Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta referred to gay rights as a “non-issue” for Kenyans.