American
support by the Obama administration since 2009 for LGBT rights at the
UN has given Ban Ki Moon the political space he needed to push the
envelope, even when faced with opposition from culturally conservative
countries. In 2012 he created the UN Free and Equal Campaign, which has
helped mainstream LGBT rights throughout the entire UN system. It also
gave him the space to be able to lead by example and change personnel
policy to be more expansively welcoming to same sex partners.
This simply would not have been possible without the support of the USA. And today’s vote is a good example why that is. The USA used its influence and compel countries on the fence to abstain from today’s vote, thereby ensuring its failure.
This simply would not have been possible without the support of the USA. And today’s vote is a good example why that is. The USA used its influence and compel countries on the fence to abstain from today’s vote, thereby ensuring its failure.
LGBT
rights secured a major bureaucratic victory at the United Nations today
when member states overwhelmingly voted down a Russian-backed proposal
to curtail benefits afforded to the same-sex spouses of UN staff. The
vote failed by a...
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