Meeting

A Term Member Discussion on Global LGBTQ+ Rights and Foreign Policy

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

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Speakers

Mira D. Patel

Former Biden-Harris Transition Team; Former CFR Term Member

Kimahli Powell

Executive Director, Rainbow Railroad

Presider

Jenna H. Ben-Yehuda

President and Chief Executive Officer, Truman National Security Project; Former CFR Term Member; CFR Member

Panelists discuss global LGBTQ+ rights, and LGBTQ+ policy as a key component of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy.

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Nigeria

Nigerian and Western Values Collide

Nigerian public opinion is intensely homophobic. In 2014, the Nigerian National Assembly passed—and then President Goodluck Jonathan signed—a law against homosexual activity as draconian as that of U…

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Japan

Japanese Court Puts Same-Sex Marriage on the Nation’s Agenda

Erin Gallagher is a research associate for Japan studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. On March 17, three couples in Hokkaido won a landmark case in the Sapporo District Court. Thousan…

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