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Deportation to Syria could mean death for women, children and LGBTQ refugees in Turkey

Ed note. This is a guest post from: Deina Abdelkader, University of Massachusetts Lowell Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan isn’t limiting his assault on neighboring Syria to attacking Kurdish troops that run the country’s northern region. He says the 3.6...

Map of the Day: Countries Where LGBTIQ Groups Are Banned

Today’s map comes from Outright International, a global LGBTIQ rights group. It shows countries where the legal registration of community groups that support LGBTIQ rights are curtailed by governments. As you can see, there is great disparity around...

A Typically Routine Resolution Over the “Olympic Truce” Becomes the Latest Battleground for LGBT Rights at the UN

An bi-annual UN General Assembly resolution has become the latest forum for countries seeking to roll back global LGBT rights. Every two years, countries come together to pass a resolution calling for global truce to be respected during the Winter...

Why Did the US Vote Against a UN Resolution Condemning the Execution of Gay People?

On September 29, the United States joined Botswana, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, China, India, Iraq, Japan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in opposing a Human Rights Council resolution that specifically condemned the use of the death penalty as...

A Win for LGBT Rights at the Last Big UN Showdown of the Obama Era

Human rights activists dodged a bullet in the General Assembly yesterday when a majority of countries rejected a cynical ploy to defang a newly established LGBT rights watchdog. Countries voted 84 to 77 to keep in place the mandate of...

For the first time, LGBT rights will be formally institutionalized into the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations

The UN Human Rights Council today voted in a hotly contested decision to create a new “independent expert” to probe human rights violations against LGBT people worldwide. The debate leading up to the vote was intense. Culturally conservative countries opposed...

Just Six Years Ago at the UN, These Five Countries Refused to Even Mention Violence Against LGBT Communities. They Have Evolved.

The Security Council on Monday passed, for the first time, a measure condemning violence against LGBT communities. The measure was unanimously approved in the wake of the Orlando Massacre and was a precedent breaking affirming for many countries that “targeting...

The Orlando Massacre proves that anti-LGBT violence is a threat to international peace and security

Last August, two gay men living under the threat of ISIS testified before a special session of the Security Council, which is the body of the United Nations charged with tackling threats to international peace and security. The United States hosted...

Beyond Bathrooms in North Carolina: UN Issues New Global Report on Transphobia and Homophobia in Schools

The debate over the safety and welfare of transgender and gay school kids is something that is raging well beyond American borders. A new UNESCO report on education bears an ominous message – violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students is endemic in schools....

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