[ UN & Gay Rights ]

"Even today, not a single international human rights convention explicitly acknowledges the human rights of LGBT people. The right to physically love the person of one's choice is nowhere enshrined in any global humanitarian law. No convention recognizes sexual rights as human rights. None offer explicit protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity..."

And so the UN is going to vote on a declaration of gay rights, but...

The US government is one of the only western democratic nations that has declined to support a United Nations Declaration calling for the global decriminalization of homosexuality. The Declaration will be put before the UN General Assembly & on 10 December, which is Human Rights Day, and the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights