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05/26/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/26/2021 14:32 ASSISTANT SPEAKER CLARK, MENENDEZ INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO REPORT ON THE STATUS OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD ASSISTANT SPEAKER CLARK, MENENDEZ INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO REPORT ON THE STATUS OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD The Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act would permanently require the State Department to report on the status of reproductive rights in its annual human rights reports. Washington, D...

As medical oxygen turns into a luxury, scientists are working on a cheaper way to produce it By studying different materials that store and separate gases, scientists see potential in some affordable solutions for devices such as oxygen concentrators. Oxygen is mostly obtained from liquefied air. | Adnan Abidi / Reuters People might once have considered oxygen a human right. But the pandemic has revealed that access to oxygen – in a pure form, for medical use – is a luxur...

People might once have considered oxygen a human right. But the pandemic has revealed that access to oxygen – in a pure form, for medical use – is a luxury in most low and middle-income countries. Getting access to pure oxygen for medical treatments is a complicated, expensive and often very dangerous business. The current situation in India is a harsh reminder of this issue. The second wave of COVID-19 has hit the country hard, the total number of deaths has just passed the 200,000 mark. O...

Petra De Sutter said non-binary people have been "overlooked" by Begiums existing gender-recognition laws. (HATIM KAGHAT/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images) Belgium will legally recognise non-binary people as part of reforms to gender recognition laws, deputy prime minister Petra De Sutter has confirmed. De Sutter, a Green politician who was appointed last October, is the most senior transgender politician in Europe and Belgium’s first trans minister. She also serves as the minister for public ad...

President Joe Biden has put his campaign words into action, sending a signal to the world that America is picking up the torch again as a global champion for LGBTQ rights. On February 4, Biden empowered staffers of the departments of state, justice and homeland security, both domestically and abroad, to take meaningful action on behalf of LGBTQ rights. His revised "Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World" stre...

Biden signs foreign policy memo putting U.S. at forefront of global LGBTQ rights Dan Avery © Provided by NBC News President Joe Biden has issued a historic memorandum committing the United States to promoting LGBTQ rights on the international stage. It calls for agencies to combat criminalization of LGBTQ identity or conduct, protect LGBTQ refugees and asylum-seekers, address human rights abuses affecting LGBTQ people and work with like-minded nations and international organiz...

Markey, Lowenthal to re-introduce International Human Rights Defense Act Feb 3, 2021 | Sen. Edward Markey, left and Congressman Alan Lowenthal Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and Congressman Alan Lowenthal, D-Calif., announced Wednesday Feb. 3, that they will re-introduce the International Human Rights Defense Act, a “bicameral effort to reaffirm the United States’ role as a world leader in the promotion of LGBTQI equality.” In a press release announcing their effort, the two lawmakers n...

Pastor Scott Lively Claims God Allowed Trump to Lose Election for Being Pro-LGBT On 1/26/21 at 8:40 PM EST Scott Lively, a longtime anti-LGBTQ pastor, has claimed that God allowed former President Donald Trump to lose the 2020 election because of Trumps alleged support of the LGBTQ agenda. Despite Livelys claim, most national and international LGBTQ rights groups consider Trump to be the most anti-LGBTQ president of all time. In last Sundays installment of the "Swamp Rangers" radio program with...

5 Min Read LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Joe Biden takes office as U.S. president on Wednesday with a long list of LGBT+ policy pledges - from scrapping Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military recruits to passing an anti-discrimination law. The former vice president has promised to appoint a cabinet that “looks like America”, nominating former rival for the Democratic presidential candidacy Pete Buttigieg as the first openly gay cabinet secretary, at the Transportation Departme...

What are US President-Elect Joe Bidens LGBT+ policy plans? SECTIONS Last Updated: Jan 19, 2021, 07:08 PM IST Share Synopsis The former vice president has promised to appoint a cabinet that "looks like America", nominating former rival for the Democratic presidential candidacy Pete Buttigieg as the first openly gay cabinet secretary, at the Transportation Department. Reuters Jamal Brown, a spokesman for Bidens transition team, said the president-elect was "committed to advancing the most pro-equ...