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Addressing the participants of a high-level event to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the UN LGBTI Core Group, Hanke Bruins Slot, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs said, “in far too many places around the world we are seeing a targeted hate campaign against LGBTIQ people simply for being who they are and loving who they love.” UNIFEED

Security Council meeting 9347. Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2686 (2023), Security Council Urges International Community to Prevent Incitement, Condemn Hate Speech, Racism, Acts of Extremism

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

A number of UN agencies, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNAIDS have said “they are appalled that the draconian and discriminatory anti-gay bill is now passed into law in Uganda,” a UN spokesperson told reporters in New York. UNIFEED

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the adoption in Uganda of draconian new legislation targeting lesbian, gay and bisexual people was devastating and deeply disturbing, and called on President Yoweri Museveni not to promulgate it into law. OHCHR

Informal comments to the media by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the US to the UN, and Jessica Stern, US Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+, on Integrating the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons into the Work of the Security Council.

UN Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, is calling on Russian legislators to repeal and not expand the anti-LGBTI bill. UNTV CH

The United Nations Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, said that while “enormous progress” has been achieved in the past 50 years, “equality is not yet within reach, and in many cases not within sight of LGBT communities and populations in the United States.” UNIFEED

Press briefing by the Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz.

“We are welcoming the announcement by the Prime Minister of Singapore to repeal Section 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalizes consensual sexual conduct between men,” said a UN Human rights spokesperson. OHCHR