The U.N. Human Rights Council has just voted to adopt a resolution expressing "grave concern" over anti-LGBT violence and discrimination.
"Harry Potter" actress, feminist, and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson delivered an incredible speech on gender equality that is going viral.
Michelle Obama today tweeted support to Malala Yousafzai, the education activist who was the target of an attempted assassination by the Taliban -- because she was...
On Saturday the right wing Tea Party group Texas Eagle Forum achieved its goal: support for so-called “ex-gay†or “reparative†therapy became an official plank of...
In a 2003 New York Times op-ed titled, “Why We Know Iraq Is Lying,” then-National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice wrote: Eleven...
Jimmy Carter is attacking violence against women and blasting the people who use religion to propagate it. Calling the the physical and emotional abuse, subjugation, trafficking,...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; Several members of the Obama Administration today have come out expressing strong disagreement and disappointment that Nigeria has signed into law a...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; Oh, Jim Inhofe, you’ll never change, will you? “My wife and I have been married 47 years. We have 20 kids and...
A law implementing Islam’s sharia penal codes — including stoning to death of gay people — is set to begin in Brunei on Thursday. Brunei is one...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; On Wednesday, the United Nations issued a damning report — “unprecedented,” CNN termed it — that detailed the Vatican’s historical and continued opposition to assessing and addressing...
The president of a country ravaged by poverty and hunger today stood at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly and told the world that...
Queen Elizabeth II Sunday will sign an historic anti-discrimination charter that is said to “signal” the crown’s support of LGBT rights, gender equality, and human rights...
Over 80 Republicans have signed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to find a constitutional right to marriage for same-sex couples. Who are these extraordinarily...
In a masterful stroke in his game of Raumschach — three-dimensional chess — President Barack Obama today announced to the nation and the world he believes...
Greg Ball, a Republican state senator from New York, literally seven minutes after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, was captured last night, sent out a...