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UN Women UK faces backlash over Munroe Bergdorf appointment

Munroe Bergdorf’s appointment as the ‘UK Champion’ for UN Women UK is unsurprisingly being subjected to backlash from a number of gender critical campaigners.  The new role was announced in November of last year, with Bergdorf serving as its first-ever appointee.  However, in an open letter published more than a month later on 28 December, gender critical campaign groups such as Fair Play for Women, Transgender Trend and the Women’s Rights Network – all of which are notorious for their anti-trans stances – shared “dismay and disappointment” over Bergdorf taking…

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UN’s Winnie Byanyima: ‘When countries criminalise LGBTQ+ people, they slow their progress against HIV’

Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, speaks to GAY TIMES about bringing the HIV/AIDS epidemic to an end by 2030. WORDS BY CONOR CLARK Governments all over the world have committed to bringing the HIV/AIDS epidemic to an end by 2030, something that would have seemed impossible mere decades ago. Now, the goal is within reach, but Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), tells GAY TIMES that “work still needs to be done” to make it a reality in the next seven years. “We…

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UN officials demand stay of execution for two LGBTQ+ rights activists in Iran

UN representatives have called for Iran to cancel its planned execution of two women LGBTQ+ rights activists. On 4 September, Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights reported that Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Choubdar were found guilty of “spreading corruption on earth” by a court in Urmia. The horrifying verdict, which was reached in August, stemmed from the Urmia Public Prosecutor’s accusing the two women of “promoting homosexuality and Christianity” and “communicating with the media opposing the Islamic Republic” in January. Sedighi-Hamadani and Choubdaral were also convicted on “trafficking” charges due to…

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Articles LGBTQ Rights LGBTQ+ News Life News United Nations Victor Madrigal-Borloz

UN expert “extremely concerned” over the future of LGBTQ+ rights in the US

A United Nations (UN) expert said they were concerned about the future of LGBTQ+ rights in the US after a recent ten-day visit.  Back in August, the United Nations announced that independent expert Victor Madrigal-Borloz would be visiting the US to assess the human rights of the LGBTQ+ community.  “The visit provides an important opportunity to assess the implementation of human rights standards to combat violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender-diverse (LGBT) people in the country,” he said in a statement. During his trip, which took…

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