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Today, the U.S. Government released a first of its kind progress report on implementation of President Biden’s Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Around the World. The progress demonstrates the U.S. commitment to promoting and protecting the human rights of LGBTQI+ people around the world through our diplomacy and foreign assistance.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra released the following statement:
“Promoting health equity is at the core of our work at HHS, both in the United States and around the world. That vision requires ensuring that all people – regardless of race, gender, age, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation – have access to quality healthcare services. Today I reaffirm the importance of our work to advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons around the world, and I call on the Department to continue building on existing efforts to demonstrate global leadership on these issues, as well as to support the identification and implementation of best practices in programming around the world.”
HHS Actions to Promote and Protect LGBTQI+ Rights Around the World
The report highlights some of the ways that HHS has taken action to promote and protect the rights of LGBTQI+ persons around the world since the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration, including:
The full report is available to the public at https://www.state.gov/lgbtqi-human-rights/. A White House fact sheet on the report is available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/28/fact-sheet-u-s-agencies-are-advancing-the-human-rights-of-lgbtqi-persons-around-the-world/.
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