News and Events => Political and Legal News => Topic started by: Jessica_Rose on September 15, 2025, 05:11:18 PM Return to Full Version
Title: Lawmakers use Marco Rubio’s own words against him...
Post by: Jessica_Rose on September 15, 2025, 05:11:18 PM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on September 15, 2025, 05:11:18 PM
Lawmakers use Marco Rubio's own words against him in demand he release LGBTQ+ human rights data
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/lawmakers-use-marco-rubios-own-words-against-him-in-demand-he-release-lgbtq-human-rights-data/
Molly Sprayregen (15 Sep 2025)
The Congressional Equality Caucus is urging the State Department (DOS) to restore data on LGBTQ+ and intersex people to its human rights report.
In August, DOS released a heavily edited version of its 2024 annual report on human rights around the world. The report did not include any mention of LGBTQ+ rights violations and other abuses.
In March, both NPR and Politico reported on internal documents instructing State Department employees to cut from the report references to gender-based violence, environmental justice, restrictions on political participation, government corruption, sexual violence against children, and violations of the rights of LGBTQ+ and disabled people, among scores of other human rights categories.
"We weren't going to release something compiled and written by the previous administration," State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said during a Tuesday press briefing, according to the Washington Blade, adding that the report "needed to be changed" to fit the "view and vision" of the current president.
"When he was a member of the Senate, he used to stand up and support an American foreign policy based on promoting democracy and human rights," Van Hollen told NPR. "But ever since he was confirmed, he seems to have forgotten all that."
...former Biden administration special U.S. envoy for the promotion of LGBTQ+ and intersex rights and co-founder of the Alliance for Diplomacy and Justice, Jessica Stern, said that while she and her colleagues expected the report to be "bad," they were "shocked and horrified" by what the administration released.
"It is deliberate erasure," she said.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/lawmakers-use-marco-rubios-own-words-against-him-in-demand-he-release-lgbtq-human-rights-data/
Molly Sprayregen (15 Sep 2025)
The Congressional Equality Caucus is urging the State Department (DOS) to restore data on LGBTQ+ and intersex people to its human rights report.
In August, DOS released a heavily edited version of its 2024 annual report on human rights around the world. The report did not include any mention of LGBTQ+ rights violations and other abuses.
In March, both NPR and Politico reported on internal documents instructing State Department employees to cut from the report references to gender-based violence, environmental justice, restrictions on political participation, government corruption, sexual violence against children, and violations of the rights of LGBTQ+ and disabled people, among scores of other human rights categories.
"We weren't going to release something compiled and written by the previous administration," State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said during a Tuesday press briefing, according to the Washington Blade, adding that the report "needed to be changed" to fit the "view and vision" of the current president.
"When he was a member of the Senate, he used to stand up and support an American foreign policy based on promoting democracy and human rights," Van Hollen told NPR. "But ever since he was confirmed, he seems to have forgotten all that."
...former Biden administration special U.S. envoy for the promotion of LGBTQ+ and intersex rights and co-founder of the Alliance for Diplomacy and Justice, Jessica Stern, said that while she and her colleagues expected the report to be "bad," they were "shocked and horrified" by what the administration released.
"It is deliberate erasure," she said.