Kate Sheill, Amnesty International’s Identity-based Discrimination Team Coordinator, blogging from the UN in New York
I’m in New York for the delivery at the UN General Assembly of a joint statement on human rights and sexual orientation and gender identity. It doesn’t sound very important does it, a statement? It’s not a resolution or even a declaration – the usual focus of our work at the UN. But nonetheless, this is a huge step forward for LGBT rights.
Over 60 countries, from all geographic regions, have now endorsed the joint statement addressing human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Checking my email on arrival in the Big Apple, I saw that another state had endorsed the statement.
Dani Valls, Amnesty International campaigner, blogging about international action on DRC
I read that a journalist from UN-sponsored Radio Okapi was killed by unknown assailants in the Democratic Republic of Congo last Friday. He was my age, 34. He left a wife and three children.
And I hear the stories of children, forced to leave their homes to join some of the rebel armed groups, the silence from women and girls raped during the looting. More killings. Many which will never make it to the news.
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