The United Nations have joined forces with out actor Zachary Quinto to highlight the true cost of discrimination to mark World Human Rights Day. The UN’s Free & Equal Campaign have released a video with Quinto exploring the actual economic cost of LGBTIQ discrimination. The video explains how society is depriving it’s own economy of resources […]
A new report from the United Nations shows that many countries are applying the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) developed Fast Track Strategy, which facilitates more timely treatments for people living with HIV. The report, entitled ‘Focus on location and population: on the Fast-Track to end AIDS by 2030,’ documents over 50 cities, communities […]
The Harvey Milk Foundation have announced they are recognising United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s contribution to LGBT rights by bestowing him the Harvey Milk Medal. “Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is receiving the Harvey Milk Honors Medal due to his unparalleled and unequivocal support of LGBT inclusive human rights across the globe,” says Stuart Milk, co-founder […]
Former High Court Judge Michael Kirby has been criticized by the North Korean media after he made a presentation on the state of human rights in the communist nation. The Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) referred to Kirby as “disgusting old lecher with a 40-odd-year-long career of homosexuality”. Kirby made a presentation as chairperson of […]
On April 11th 1994 Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group announced that the U.N. Human Rights Committee decreed that Tasmania’s laws criminalising homosexuality were a breach of international human rights standards. The decision allowed the Federal Government the power to override the laws which lead directly to their repeal in 1997. It was also the […]
March 7: Nations from the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation and the African Union walked out of the UN Human Rights Council panel discussion on violence and discrimination against LGBTI people in which a report from the High Commissioner on Human Rights documenting discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their […]
