The UN Security Council held its first-ever meeting on the persecution of homosexuals by Islamic State terrorists, Monday. The closed-door session, sponsored by the U.S. and Chile,focused on LGBT rights and issues. According to cnsnews.com The U.N. Security Council heard from two homosexual Arab men, including a Syrian named Subhi Nahas who has been resettled…
The U.S Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power and her Chilean counterpart Ambassador Cristián Barros Melet are holding the first ever U.N. Security Council meeting on LGBT rights later today. Open to all U.N. member states, the gathering will focus on the appalling abuse and violence being perpetrated against LGBT people in areas in…
GENEVA — UN Watch has called on UN chief Ban Ki-moon, rights commissioner Prince Zeid, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and the EU’s Catherine Ashton to condemn yesterday’s UN election of slave-holding Mauritania, misogynistic Pakistan, gay-bashing Uganda and repressive Zimbabwe to its 54-member Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a top U.N. body that regulates human rights groups, shapes the composition of…
