{"id":2543,"date":"2016-06-12T20:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T01:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2016-06-12T20:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T01:17:45","slug":"russia-leads-effort-to-stop-un-resolution-to-decriminalize-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2543","title":{"rendered":"Russia leads effort to stop UN resolution to decriminalize homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Russia has put its weight behind an effort to remove language from a resolution related to AIDS that would have urged countries to decriminalize homosexuality and drug use. Via<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/russia-leads-effort-un-strip-gay-decriminalization-drug-users-from-aids-resolution-iran-\/27787638.html\"> Radio Free Europe:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russia was joined by Iran, Poland, and several Gulf states in blocking the decriminalization language from being included in a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on June 8 that called for ending the AIDS pandemic by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier draft resolution had called for treating homosexuality and drug use as &#8220;human rights issues.&#8221; Instead, it now stresses the need to help intravenous drug users, gay men, and transgender people who are at high risk of contracting HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Russian health official Dilyara Ravilova-Borovik said that while more must be done to end HIV\/AIDS, governments have a &#8220;sovereign right&#8221; to decide their own public health strategy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Russia has put its weight behind an effort to remove language from a resolution related to AIDS that would have urged countries to decriminalize homosexuality and drug use. Via Radio Free Europe: Russia was joined by Iran, Poland, and several Gulf states in blocking the decriminalization language from being included in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[746,68,109],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-aids","tag-russia","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","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=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}