Tag Archives: United Nations

Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin: We Don’t Have Anti-Gay Laws

Yesterday activists confronted the Russian ambassador to the United Nations outside of his home in Manhattan. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin arrived at his residence on New York’s Upper East Side in the late afternoon to find 10 activists from the international gay rights group All Out outside the wrought iron gates holding red placards saying: “340,457 worldwide say stop Russia’s anti-gay …

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Quote Of The Day – Desmond Tutu

Yesterday I reported that the United Nation’s had launched a global campaign for the LGBT rights during a meeting in South Africa.  At the launch announcement was Archbishop Desmond Tutu. South Africa’s Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says he will never worship a “homophobic God” and will rather go to hell. The retired archbishop was speaking at the launch …

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UN Unveils LGBT Rights Campaign

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today unveiled a global LGBT rights campaign at a meeting in South Africa.  The campaign is called Free & Equal. The multi-pronged campaign — announced at a news conference in Cape Town, South Africa — will include videos and public-service announcements distributed through social media, a new website, a …

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Obama To Nominate Activist Samantha Power As Ambassador To United Nations

United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice is set to step down to replace Tom Donilon as National Security Advisor. President Obama will nominate activist Samantha Power to replace Rice. The appointments of Rice and Power not only represent the ascension of women to top roles on Obama’s national security team, but the rise of two officials who have made human rights …

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UN Issues Anti-Homophobia Message

The United Nations has issued the below video message in recognition of the International Day Against Homophobia. Clip recap: 76 countries still criminalize consensual same-sex relationships and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people everywhere continue to suffer violent attacks and discriminatory treatment. In this simple, high-impact video from the UN human rights office, individuals from diverse backgrounds pose questions directly …

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon: Gay And Trans Rights Are Human Rights

Posted to the UN’s official YouTube channel.

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Today Is World Human Rights Day

The White House press office sends us this statement from United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice: Today, we pledge to live up to Eleanor Roosevelt’s inspirational example, for in far too many places human freedoms are still denied. As long as a family anywhere is tormented by a state-sanctioned killer; a peaceful agitator is hounded by a violent brigade; an artist …

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UN Upgrades Status For Palestine

The nine votes against came from: United States, Canada, Israel, Czech Republic, Panama, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau.

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France To Recognize Palestine

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced today that France will support Palestine’s bid for “nonmember observer status” at the United Nations. Presuming that that France follows through, it will become the first major European power to recognize Palestine as a legitimate state. The support of France, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, is the most significant boost …

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UN Condemns Gay Death Penalty

Yesterday the United Nations approved a resolution that condemns the killing of LGBT persons either by governments or via “extrajudicial” means such as hate crimes. Via press release from the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission: An international coalition of organizations dedicated to human rights celebrated yesterday’s historic vote in the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly …

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UNAIDS Report: 50% Drop In New HIV Infections Across 25 Countries

The United Nations’ UNAIDS project today issued their annual report and there’s some promising news: Results, by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), shows that unprecedented acceleration in the AIDS response is producing results for people. The report shows that a more than 50% reduction in the rate of new HIV infections has been achieved across 25 low- …

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Israeli PM Netanyahu Tells UN To Draw Red Line At Stopping Iran’s Nuke Program

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly today and used a magic marker to illustrate his demand for American intervention in Iran’s nuclear program. After ticking off the evidence that he says points to Iran’s support of terrorism around the world, Netanyahu said that “given this record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons, just imagine Iranian …

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French President Calls On UN To Support Decriminalizing Homosexuality

“France will continue to engage in all these struggles: for the abolition of the death penalty, for women’s rights to equality and dignity, for the universal decriminalization of homosexuality, which should not be recognised as a crime but, on the contrary, recognized as a [sexual] orientation. All members countries have the obligation to guarantee the security of their citizens, and …

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Obama Addresses UN General Assembly

CBS recaps the speech: President Barack Obama told world leaders Tuesday that attacks on U.S. citizens in Libya “were attacks on America,” and he called on them to join in confronting the root causes of the rage across the Muslim world. “I do believe that it is the obligation of all leaders, in all countries, to speak out forcefully against …

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LIBERIA: United Nations Condemns Proposed Anti-Gay Legislation

The United Nations Human Rights Office has condemned Liberia’s plan to stiffen the penalties for homosexuality. The new legislation makes homosexual acts, including sodomy and lesbian acts, a second degree felony, the punishment for which includes a fine and up to five years in jail. Such acts, including “voluntary sodomy,” are currently classified as misdemeanors and carry a one-year jail …

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UN Calls For Tax On Billionaires

The United Nations has called for a special tax on the world’s billionaires, saying that such a fund could provide as much as $400B a year for impoverished countries. An annual lump sum payment by the super-rich is one of a host of measures including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, currency exchanges or financial transactions proposed in a UN …

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Facebook Page Of The Day

I imagine we’ll hear a lot about this in the coming week.

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UN Issues World Happiness Report

Shocker! The world’s happiest nations tend to be the most socialist. Who’d think that providing your citizens with health care and adequate housing would make them happy?

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VIDEO: Sec. Hillary Clinton’s Historic United Nations Speech On LGBT Rights

You won’t regret making the time to watch every minute of this historic speech in support of LGBT rights. Our enemies will surely make this the centerpiece of every bit of vitriol they spew for the next eleven months.

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