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Accessing U.S. Embassies: A Guide for LGBT Human Rights Defenders
This guide is a preview copy of a resource manual for LGBT activists and NGOs in other countries to help them understand how U.S. embassies work.
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United States Issues UN Report on Its Own Human Rights Conditions
On December 30, the United States submitted its fourth periodic report to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights concerning the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which is one of the most important human rights treaties that the United States has ratified.
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United Nations releases groundbreaking report
December 15, 2011–The United Nations today released a groundbreaking report, titled simply “Discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity,” by the UN’s leading human rights commissioner.
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Hilary Clinton's landmark Human Rights Day speech
As I listened to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s landmark Human Rights Day speech last week before a United Nations audience in Geneva, I was overwhelmed with emotion.
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Op-Ed: A Changed U.S. State Department
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s December 6 Geneva speech on LGBT rights is another high-water mark in the Obama administration’s integration of the human and civil rights of LGBT people into U.S. foreign policy.
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White House Fact sheet on Presidential LGBT Memorandum
Read the fact sheet put out by the White House on Preseident Obama's presidential memorandum that directs all federal agencies engaged abroad to ensure that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons.
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