BuzzFeed Asks OutRight To Comment On The Last Decade Of Human Rights
Jessica Stern, Executive Director of OutRight Action International was contacted by BuzzFeed News Reporter, J. Lester Feder, and asked to comment on LGBTIQ human rights over this past decade and her thoughts on the next decade to come.
“Once you have a taste that a better world is possible, you do not want to go back,” said Jessica Stern, executive director of OutRight Action International, which works with activists around the world and advocates for LGBTQ rights at the UN.
“In this environment, there are fewer powerful states that we can count on, and there are more powerful states that are hostile to LGBTIQ rights,” Stern recently told me. “Russia, with its influence across the Middle East, China, and its influence everywhere.” It’s not just that the US is a “shadow of its former self” when it comes to defending human rights, she added — it’s now part of the problem.
“I am very worried about the next decade,” Stern said. “Every time I open my email or turn on my phone, someone I know personally is under attack.”
Published on December 28, 2019 | OutRight Action International an LGBT human rights organization

