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Title: Nobel Laureates, including Desmond Tutu, call for global LGBT equality
Post by: MadelineB on July 06, 2012, 01:04:07 AM
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http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/06/25/nobel-laureates-including-desmond-tutu-call-for-global-lgbt-equality/ (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/06/25/nobel-laureates-including-desmond-tutu-call-for-global-lgbt-equality/)
by Edmund Broch
25 June 2012, 10:25pm

Today, the Robert F Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights released a statement with Sexual Minorities Uganda, undersigned by Archbishop Tutu, Professor Jody Williams, Dr Shirin Ebadi, and Professor Muhammad Yunus, which reads:

QuoteAs a global community of individuals dedicated to a more peaceful and just world, we wish to express our grave concern as to how our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) brothers and sisters are being treated across the globe....

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Note: you can read the full text of the statement, and the original press release, here:
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http://rfkcenter.org/nobel-peace-laureates-raise-their-voices-to-protect-lgbti-rights?lang=en (http://rfkcenter.org/nobel-peace-laureates-raise-their-voices-to-protect-lgbti-rights?lang=en)