Congressional Black Caucus Urges Obama Administration to Review Aid to Anti-LGBT Countries
Yesterday, the Congressional Black Caucus called on the Obama administration to review all aid to countries with laws criminalizing being gay. The organization represents the African American members of the United States Congress.
“Such laws not only violate human rights, they endanger lives and undermine public health efforts,” wrote the 41-member caucus in a letter addressed to U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
The CBC also stated that they are “especially concerned about the enactment of draconian laws in Uganda and Nigeria in recent weeks and the effect that may have in other countries…”
Additionally, the organization asked that the administration “empower U.S. embassies to protect individuals endangered by anti-LGBT laws” and requests that the White House work with the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations to “support the repeal of discriminatory laws, to dissuade the adoption on anti-LGBT legislation, and to bolster human rights-based policies that support, not persecute, marginalized populations.”
Read the full letter below.
(Letter Source: BuzzFeed)
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It’s a shame that your own father will go above and beyond to harm his child who help bring her into this world. Who cares she lived a life that you did not like or wanted her to live. It was a life that she enjoyed being who she really was, a life that she found her soulmate. She didn’t deserve to die. Britney aunt was right when she said her brother chose the wrong path.
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