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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 01:47 PM
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1. This is my favorite part:
Today, I want to talk about the work we have left to do to protect one group of people whose human rights are still denied in too many parts of the world today. In many ways, they are an invisible minority. They are arrested, beaten, terrorized, even executed. Many are treated with contempt and violence by their fellow citizens while authorities empowered to protect them look the other way or, too often, even join in the abuse. They are denied opportunities to work and learn, driven from their homes and countries, and forced to suppress or deny who they are to protect themselves from harm. I am talking about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, human beings born free and given bestowed equality and dignity,who have a right to claim that, which is now one of the remaining human rights challenges of our time

Read more: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/12/07/hillary-clinton-vows-to-support-global-fight-for-gay-rights/#ixzz1fsNVYHxV
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