Tag: UN
Asylum seeker ‘was asked to provide intimate photos to prove she was gay’
Skhumbuzo Khumalo fled Zimbabwe, where homosexuality is illegal, after fearing for her life, only to be subjected to ‘degrading’ treatment on arrival in the UK.
United Nations Enlists OutRight in Effort to Measure LGBTI Inclusion Worldwide
How can we measure the degree to which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people are included – and, as likely, excluded – from the lifeblood of societies around the world?
Human Rights Day at the United Nations to Focus on the Economic Cost of LGBT Exclusion
On Human Rights Day, OutRight Action International is releasing the final video in its “Cost of Exclusion” LGBTIQ Africa series – a theme that will be highlighted on a global basis during a special United Nations Human Rights Day event on Thursday.
OutSummit – State of LGBTIQ Global Rights NYC
OutSummit – 10 global LGBTIQ leaders who are visiting the United States the week of Dec. 7-12 to speak out at the United Nations on serious human rights concerns worldwide.
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.
U.S. national statement to the UN crime congress
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Luis Arreaga, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Special Representative of the U.S. Secretary of State to the 13th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice