U.S. Aligned With Iran in Anti-Gay Vote

January 30th, 2006 at 15:50 Björn Hallberg

Birds of feather …

HRW - Rice Must Explain Repressive UN Ban on LGBT Rights Groups - (Washington, D.C., January 25, 2006) In a reversal of policy, the United States on Monday backed an Iranian initiative to deny United Nations consultative status to organizations working to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, a coalition of 40 organizations, led by the Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Watch, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, called for an explanation of the vote which aligned the United States with governments that have long repressed the rights of sexual minorities.

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