Posted on Advocate.com December 10, 2010
U.S. Vows to Change U.N. Resolution
By Julie Bolcer

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/12/10/US_Vows_to_Change_UN_Resolution/

On Human Rights Day, Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, announced that the U.S. would "fight to restore" the LGBT protections stricken from a draft General Assembly resolution on summary, extrajudicial, or arbitrary executions last month.

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"Here at the United Nations, like many of you, I was incensed by the recent vote in the General Assembly's Third Committee, which eliminated any mention of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals from a resolution condemning extrajudicial killing of vulnerable people around the world," said Rice.

 

Sorry to be pessimistic, but how can we hope to change this in the UN which covers policy around the world, when we can't even pass the ENDA in our own country?

Seems a little hypocritical, IMO.

Quote from: Epigania on December 12, 2010, 10:19:21 PM


Sorry to be pessimistic, but how can we hope to change this in the UN which covers policy around the world, when we can't even pass the ENDA in our own country?

Seems a little hypocritical, IMO.

And why did we not opposite in the first place?  Because it is America, where the politicians talk out of both sides of their mouths and that other part of their anatomy.