UN Ambassador Susan E. Rice delivers powerful speech on LGBTQ rights

President Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice delivered a speech on LGBTQ rights around the world at American University’s School of International Service last week, highlighting progress but also stressing the need to continue fighting for equality.

The event, hosted by the school, the Human Rights Campaign and Human Rights First, included a moderated discussion with James Goldgeier, Dean of American University School of International Service.

Rice recalled fighting for the release of members of the LGBTQ community in Uganda after a Pride Week event was raided by police in August. She said that while she is aware not every case of civil rights abuses are within their power to rectify, when cases of abuse from “a far-away country can be heard at the highest levels of the U.S. government, that itself is progress.”

Rice noted, “we still have a great deal of work to do.”

She also made the pragmatic case for increasing the rights of the LGBTQ community around the world:

Full story:

Source: UN Ambassador Susan E. Rice delivers powerful speech on LGBTQ rights