{"id":1239,"date":"2014-09-11T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T00:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2014-09-11T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T00:03:23","slug":"united-nations-commemorates-anniversary-of-pro-lgbt-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1239","title":{"rendered":"United Nations commemorates anniversary of pro-LGBT campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Via press release<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, Free &amp; Equal, the United Nations Human Rights Office\u2019s global public education campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, releases \u201cUN Free &amp; Equal: One Billion Rising\u201d a video highlighting the campaign\u2019s impact to date. \u201cIn the past year, more than a billion people around the world have been exposed to Free &amp; Equal\u2019s message of equality and acceptance. Millions of them have watched and shared campaign videos and read and posted materials online,\u201d said Charles Radcliffe, Chief of Global Issues at the UN Human Rights Office. \u201cAt a time when the rights of LGBT people being challenged in some countries, the campaign has helped to raise awareness of the stigma, discrimination and violence that continues to affect LGBT communities in all parts of the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"United Nations Free &amp; Equal: One Billion Rising\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lz1TrptKhaU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via press release Today, Free &amp; Equal, the United Nations Human Rights Office\u2019s global public education campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, releases \u201cUN Free &amp; Equal: One Billion Rising\u201d a video highlighting the campaign\u2019s impact to date. \u201cIn the past year, more than a billion people around the world have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}