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Zimbabwe official: We won’t allow gay rights
Zimbabwe’s justice minister told a visiting U.N. human rights chief that his country won’t grant human rights to gays, lesbians, bisexuals or transgender people. Navi Pillay, U.N. high commissioner of...
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UN high commissioner tells Zimbabwe it needs to change
Navi Pillay, U.N. high commissioner for human rights. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia) Zimbabwe came in for harsh criticism from the UN high commissioner for human rights at the end of her recent...
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UN group urges Cameroon to suspend anti-gay law
Human Rights logo (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia) The United Nations human rights office today called on Cameroon to stop arresting and imprisoning people on suspicion of being lesbian or gay. Under...
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U.N. rights office rejects anti-gay laws of Russia, Moldava
Human rights adviser Claude Cahn of the OHCHR (Photo courtesy of ILGA-Europe) The human rights office of the United Nations has urged Russia to repeal its ban on “gay propaganda,” while also asking...
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U.N. campaigns against 76 countries’ anti-gay laws
“You won’t believe what’s illegal in 76 places,” says the U.N. Human Rights Office as part of its Free & Equal campaign seeking recognition of human rights for LGBT people. The campaign notes,...
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UN on anti-gay laws: 2013 hate from 1800s prejudice
A recent appeal from “Free & Equal” campaign of the United Nations Human Rights Office. One of the latest appeals for the repeal of 76+ countries’ anti-gay laws from U.N. Secretary-General Ban...
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U.N. human rights leader to visit anti-gay Nigeria
Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, will visit Nigeria this week to meet with leaders who have imposed a harsh new anti-gay law there. Navi Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for...
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UNHCHR alarmed at LGBT arrests, detentions in Gambia
Today, the Office of the recently appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, issued a Press Release on LGBT in The Gambia. He strongly condemns the harsh new law in The...
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Malaysian project asks trans women to ‘return to normal’
Terengganu executive council member Ghazali Taib faces reporters (Photo courtesy of Malaysiakini) State-level officials in Malaysia are seeking to change trans women into men, a proposal that was met...
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Letter to Uganda: Drop Internet tax so we can learn about Covid-19
Three institutions at the front lines of defending human rights in Uganda have written to the country’s health minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, urging the government to lift restrictions on access to...
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