A group of 51 Muslim nations has blocked 11 gay and transgender rights organizations from attending a United Nations conference on AIDS next month, and now major Western nations are protesting, according to the Associated Press.
A letter from Egypt on behalf of the nations in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to the president of the U.N.’s General Assembly — dated April 26 and obtained Wednesday by the AP — offers “no reason for the objections” to the groups, but officials from Western nations such as Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, felt that the OIC singled the groups out for their advocacy on behalf of gay, lesbian and transgender individuals.
Power wrote in a letter to General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft that since “transgender people are 49 times more likely to be living with HIV than the general population, their exclusion from the high-level meeting will only impede global progress in combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic.”
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