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Obama Administration To Promote And Protect LGBT Rights Through Foreign Aid, Diplomacy
"The Obama administration said Tuesday that it will intensify efforts to fight discrimination against lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people as a major element of its foreign policy," the Washington Post reports (DeYoung/Wilson, 12/6). "In the first U.S. government strategy to deal with human rights abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens abroad," President Obama issued a presidential memorandum on Tuesday "instruct[ing] agencies to use foreign aid to promote such rights," the Guardian writes.
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