Developing Countries: LGBT People

(asked on 15th June 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to promote LGBT rights in developing countries in this Parliament.


Answered by
Desmond Swayne Portrait
Desmond Swayne
This question was answered on 28th June 2016

Through development programmes, DFID aims to support civil society, governments and others to build open economies and open societies in which citizens have freedom, dignity, choice and control over their lives, and institutions are accountable, inclusive and responsive.

DFID’s approach to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights’ was published in February 2016 online.

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