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

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

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 to the resolution tried furiously to scuttle the measure, or at the very least water ...

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