NEW YORK: Jessica Stern, soon became a special diplomatic envoy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Rights of LGBTQ, seeing a promising news mixture and alarming development almost wherever he saw, both at home and abroad.
In the United States, Stern’s admiration for President Joe Biden’s movement supports LGBTQ rights offset by his disappointment in other developments.
These include the violence that survives the color of transgender colors and waves of laws in countries regulated by the Republic who seek to limit sports participation and medical choices for Transfers of Trans.
“I don’t think there are countries or regions that are all good or bad,” he told the Associated Press on Friday.
“When you look around the world, you see progress and danger simultaneously.” Stern, the new post announced by Biden last week, has served since 2012 as New York International Executive Director based in New York International, which works globally to prevent violations of LGBTQ people and strengthen their civil rights.
He hopes to start the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September.
From his point of view in Outright, he has monitored a distant threat to LGBTQ people: recent mass arrests in African countries such as Ghana and Uganda, three murders in a week in Guatemala, and the law in Hungary has been suggested by Many European leaders and human rights activists as degrading LGBTQ people.
Stern was also worried that LGBTQ people in Myanmar suffered disproportionately in the midst of military suppression of demonstrators and military opposition groups.
Regarding the United States, he said, the development of LGBTQ this year has reflected in-depth contradictions.
He praised Biden to move to improve transgender rights, including raising a trump administration ban that blocked trans people from joining the military.
And he welcomed the appointment of LGBTQ people to the important administrative post – including Pete Buttigieg, who was gay, as Secretary of Transportation, and Dr.
Rachel Levine, who is transgender, assistant health secretary.
“At the same time, work at A.S.
For the safety and security of American transgender is far from complete,” Stern said.
He urged the Congress to pass Equality Act, bills that would expand the protection of federal civil rights to LGBTQ people.
The bill stopped in the Senate due to the lack of Republican support.
“There is no right country,” he said.
“We all have jobs to do to ensure we are free from discrimination and violence.
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we are all together.” He did see the reason optimism, even in Africa, where South Africa was the only one of 54 countries that had legalized same-sex marriage.
In Nigeria, for example, he said the polls recently showed 25% of the public against discrimination against LGBTQ people – a substantial increase from a few years ago, “There is no doubt it is a slower journey for conservative rights where Even where play the dominant role, but progress is happening, “he said.
“Every day I get an email from a new organization – maybe start a film festival or art festival,” he said.
“As long as LGBTQI civil society is strong, only time problems before we see changes in attitudes and even in law and policy.”
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