human rights
Facebook Removes Picture of Gay Kiss
Posted on April 26, 2011
This week, Facebook removed this picture of two men kissing from an event page for a “kiss-in” at a London pub that had asked a gay couple to leave on account of their “obscene” kissing. The owner of the page received a warning for violating Facebook’s terms of use with the picture of the gay…Read More +
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Tagged apologize, ban, censure, facebook, gay, gay rights, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, kiss, marriage equality, protest
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Obama to Call for Gay Rights at UN
Posted on March 22, 2011
Today, the Obama administration will make a statement at the UN Human Rights Council that calls for increased UN commitment to battling discrimination against gays and lesbians. This is a first for the US, who has refused to ally themselves with previous UN proposals that similarly called for recognition of gay rights as human rights,…Read More +
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Tagged aids, gay rights, HIV, human rights, Human Rights Council, lillian jin, Millenium Development Goals, Obama, UN, UN Human Rights Council
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