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Libya tells UN Rights Council: ‘Gays threaten continuation of human race’
GENEVA — Gays threaten the continuation of the human race, Libya’s delegate told a planning meeting of the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, reported the Geneva-based UN Watch monitoring group.
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UN Secretary General urges African nations to respect gay rights
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, in an unusually outspoken declaration Sunday, told African leaders assembled at the African Union summit that they must respect gay rights, an issue that is controversial in many African states.
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Human rights activists make progress in decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide
Continuing a series of posts on the significant developments in the LGBT community in 2011, we saw an increased impact of the work of the UN Human Rights Council, particularly its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process of interrogating country’s human rights records, and other long term work by activists starting to bear fruit in other parts of the United Nations and other international bodies as well.
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United Nations’ landmark report calls for worldwide decriminalization of same-sex relations
The United Nations has produced its first ever report on LGBT rights, calling for the decriminalization of same-sex relations between consenting adults, and includes a call for protection and recognition of the self-identified gender of transgender persons.
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International Gay and Lesbian Association gains United Nations accreditation
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), meeting in Geneva on Monday, voted to grant UN accreditation to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) — one of the oldest international organizations fighting for LGBT rights.
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UN passes historic resolution calling for universal rights for LGBTQ persons
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday approved a resolution supporting equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation.
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Obama Administration asks United Nations to support LGBT rights
The Obama administration, on Tuesday, introduced a declaration to the United Nations calling for better treatment and protections for LGBT people internationally.
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United Nations restores ‘sexual orientation’ to anti-execution resolution
In a follow-up to a story we covered last month, the United Nations last week voted to restore a reference to killings due to sexual orientation that had been deleted from a resolution condemning unjustified executions.
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United Nations vote will lead to more LGBT murders, activists claim
A vote last week by the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Committee has LGBT and human rights activists outraged over the decision to remove sexual orientation from an anti-execution resolution.