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Contents:
- WATCH HILLARY CLTON'S SPEECH DECLARG 'GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS'
- CLTON TO UNED NATNS: "GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS"
- ‘GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE GAY RIGHTS’: HILLARY CLTON
- CLTON’S GENEVA ACRD: ‘GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS’
- OPN CLTON’S GENEVA ACRD: ‘GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS’
WATCH HILLARY CLTON'S SPEECH DECLARG 'GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS'
's human rights group Geneva, Clton tackled many of the mon stereotyp leveled at gay people and lled on other natns to elimate laws that crimalize or margalize homosexuals. Saturday is the anniversary of the passage of the Universal Declaratn on Human Rights, one of the te landmark achievements of the Uned Natns, which provid the opportuny for Clton to challenge other ernments to fend gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people. She was quick to adm that her own untry do not have the bt rerd on the matters — is worth notg that her speech quiet potedly did not mentn gay marriage — but announced new iativ by the Obama admistratn to bat discrimatn around the world, cludg a "Global Equaly Fund" that will support human rights groups that protect gay people.
And that is why gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.
CLTON TO UNED NATNS: "GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS"
It is a vlatn of human rights when ernments clare illegal to be gay, or allow those who harm gay people to go unpunished. It is a vlatn of human rights when lbian or transgenred women are subjected to so-lled rrective rape, or forcibly subjected to hormone treatments, or when people are murred after public lls for vlence toward gays, or when they are forced to flee their natns and seek asylum other lands to save their liv.
And is a vlatn of human rights when life-savg re is whheld om people bee they are gay, or equal accs to jtice is nied to people bee they are gay, or public spac are out of bounds to people bee they are gay. The fight for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) human rights took not one but two cril steps forward this week wh Print Obama’s release of a Printial Directive on LGBT rights followed closely by Secretary of State Hillary Clton’s ternatnal human rights day speech at the Uned Natns Geneva, Swzerland. As we’ve poted out, too many untri beg gay, or beg spected of beg gay, n get you thrown to jail, tortured, raped or killed.
From the so-lled rrective rape of lbians to proposed legislatn to stute the ath penalty for homosexualy, LGBT people around the world face the daily threat of vlence simply for who they are. The Printial Directive lled, Workg to Advance the Human Rights of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Persons Globally directs U.
‘GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE GAY RIGHTS’: HILLARY CLTON
From people like Jean-Cl Mbe, jailed Cameroon for 3 years on spicn of homosexualy, to the LGBT muny of Uganda, who fear the passage of a dranian new anti-gay law, the actns by the Obama Admistratn uld make all the difference. The speech foced on the rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and trans people around the world.
So I e here before you wh rpect, unrstandg, and though progrs on this ont is not easy, we nnot lay that spir, I want to talk about the difficult and important issu we mt addrs together to reach a global nsens that regniz the human rights of LGBT cizens have suggted that gay rights and human rights are separate and distct; but, fact, they are one and the same. Over the urse of 30 mut, Clton livered a blunt yet spirg speech that took on all the myths and nards about homosexualy and lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred (LGBT) people.
CLTON’S GENEVA ACRD: ‘GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS’
Clton’s speech mt have been rmed by the spate of vlence agast gays and lbians var untri. For stance, she mentns how South Ai’s nstutn was effective at protectg the rights of Gay people post-apartheid. ” she helped the dience to see the challeng that the gay people enunter on a daily basis as they seek to be regnized as equal members of the society.
More so, she ed her speech to exhort those power to create iendly environments where gays and lbians n live whout the fear of beg harmed for who they are. Given that I rpect gays and lbians, I will take every opportuny to te those around me about the rights of the fellow human begs. Her addrs earned her a standg ovatn the Palais s Natns and will enar her and the Obama admistratn to gay people around the outlg the history of the Universal Declaratn of Human Rights and how they apply to all people seekg digny and rpect of who they are, Clton clared, “[G]ay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.
OPN CLTON’S GENEVA ACRD: ‘GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS’
”Clton slapped back the notn prevalent around the world, particularly Ai, that homosexualy is an evil export om the Wtern Hemisphere. She lled for “hont discsn” about the beliefs that “all gay people are pedophil, that homosexualy is a disease that n be ught or cured, or that gays rec others to bee gay.