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“The United States will use all the tools of diplomacy . . . to promote gay rights around the world,” ran the opening sentence of Straits Times report on this, 8 December 2011. Based on a syndicated news stories from the New York Times, Washington Post and Agence France-Presse, the local newspaper’s story said that after her speech to the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva, some in the audience gave her a standing ovation. Others sat stony-faced; possibly they were from African and Arab countries that continue to persecute gay people. The Straits Times noted that “Singapore, which deems sex between men illegal, is not a member of the council.”
- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/a-19th-century-state-trying-to-make-it-in-the-21st/
- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/a-19th-century-state-trying-to-make-it-in-the-21st/