Sixty-six countries in the United Nations General Assembly support an unprecedented declaration that seeks the universal decriminalization of homosexuality.
The New York Times, "In a First, Gay Rights are Pressed at the UN"
UN News Centre news brief
In her confirmation hearings before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee to become the next US Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr. Susan E. Rice affirmed her support for the UNGA declaration. Dr. Rice mainatined that the declaration “sought to give voice to something that is very fundamental to President-elect Obama’s world view and indeed to all of us in his incoming administration and that is the absolute necessity to prevent discrimination in any and all forms against any person or people on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation or any other basis.” See HRC Back Story