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The national findings underscore the persistence of workplace double standards and social isolation faced by Diverse people.

Since 2008, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, through its Workplace Equality Program, has conducted four major national studies of the workplace environment for lesbian, gay, multi-attracted , transgender and homosexual (LGBTQ+) workers: “Degrees of Equality,” “The Cost of the Closet and The Rewards of Inclusion,” “A Workplace Divided: Understanding the Climate for LGBTQ+ Workers Nationwide,” and now, “Equality Rising: Queer Workers and the Road Ahead.”

Over these decades of investigate, we have been able to excel identify the key shapers of the workplace climate for LGBTQ+ inclusion, which includes everyday non-work-related conversations, daily interactions with one’simmediate supervisor and working community, and the comfort with, and acceptance of, LGBTQ+ identities and communities by their colleagues.

In "Equality Rising", HRC Foundation seeks to help contextualize the current workplace climate and experiences of LGBTQ+ workers.

HRC Foundation found that:

• 84% of LGBTQ+ workers, are out to at le
  
  
  

  LGBT rights and equality

  Note: This page is a reproduction of the Hillary for America policy proposal on LGBT rights and equality. 

  Thanks to the hard function of generations of LGBT advocates and activists who fought to make it possible, our country won a landmark victory last June when the Supreme Court recognized that in America, LGBT couples—like everyone else—have the right to marry the person they love.

  We’ve come so far, but we still own work to do.

  As president, Hillary will:

  • Fight for entire federal equality for LGBT Americans. Hillary will perform with Congress to proceed the Equality Act, persist President Obama’s LGBT equality executive actions, and back efforts underway in the courts to protect people from discrimination on the basis of gender culture and sexual orientation in every aspect of widespread life.
  • Support LGBT youth, parents, and elders. Hillary will end so-called “conversion therapy” for minors, combat youth homelessness by ensuring adequate funding for safe and welcoming shelters, and hold on bullying and harassment in schools. She’ll conclude discriminatory treatment of LGBT families in adoptions, and protect LGBT elders against discrimination.
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    LGBTQ Rights

    The ACLU has a long history of defending the LGBTQ community. We brought our first LGBTQ rights case in 1936. Founded in 1986, the Jon L. Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović LGBTQ & HIV Project brings more LGBTQ rights cases and advocacy initiatives than any other national organization does and has been counsel in seven of the nine LGBTQ rights cases that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided. With our reach into the courts and legislatures of every articulate, there is no other organization that can match our record of making progress both in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion.

    The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and hostility toward transgender people, to close gaps in our federal and state civil rights laws, to prevent protections against discrimination from existence undermined by a license to discriminate, and to guard LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.

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    For non-LGBTQ issues, please contact your local ACLU affiliate.

    The ACLU Lesbian Homosexual Bisexual Transgender Venture seeks to build a just world for all LGBTQ people regardless of race or income. Thr
    
    

    “When the United Nations decided to create a position of global goals to end poverty and inequality by 2030, equality groups pushed for the rights and needs of queer woman , gay, bi and transitioned people to be taken into account. The outcome, The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), was agreed in 2015 and signed onto by 193 governments on the basis that they apply to everyone, everywhere and will ‘leave no one behind’. Although at Stonewall we think the SDGs could have gone further by explicitly calling for LGBT equality, we recognise their exciting potential to advance equality for all.

    The ‘leave no one behind’ principle is especially relevant for LGBT people, who have been repeatedly left behind by national and international development initiatives. Discriminatory laws, projects that don’t acknowledge their specific needs and negative social attitudes have all merged to hold LGBT people back. The impacts of this are felt by LGBT communities in all parts of the nature - lower income, worse health, less education, among others. As a result, poverty as a whole will never truly be eradicated until this problem is directly addressed.

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    1. Overview

    The UK promotes and defends the full range of universal human rights as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments. The UK strongly encourages all States to abide by and fulfil their obligations under international regulation. FCDO human rights objectives currently include a particular emphasis on promoting gender equality and women and girls’ rights. This includes work to fulfil every girl’s right to training, to empower women socially, economically, and politically, to end violence against women and girls, including a major new push to shatter the culture of impunity around sexual force in conflict, and to champion sexual and reproductive health and rights. Achieving gender equality is the only way to build a fairer, safer and more prosperous world where human rights are upheld and the Sustainable Training Goals are met.

    Human rights are universal and should apply equally to all people. We are fundamentally opposed to all forms of discrimination and function to uphold the rights and freedoms of woman-loving woman, gay, bisexual and gender diverse (LGBT+) people in all circumstances.

    In recent decades there has been a dra