![]() Whitman on March 3 told reporters the $123,124,278.40 (16 billion Kenyan shillings) in aid the U.S. 25 spoke with young people about condoms, contraception and safer sex practices during her visit to the Shujaaz Konnect Festival in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. to promoting LGBTQ and intersex rights abroad as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s overall foreign policy.įirst lady Jill Biden on Feb. President Joe Biden in 2021 signed a memo that committed the U.S. His government last month began to crack down on foreign books with gay content that it feels targets teenagers. President William Ruto last September told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour before he took office that LGBTQ and intersex rights are “not a big issue” in his country. ![]() The country’s groundbreaking intersex rights law took effect last July. 24 ruled the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, an LGBTQ and intersex rights group, must be allowed to register as a non-governmental organization. Kenya is among the countries in which consensual same-sex sexual relations remain criminalized. perspective, in fact I know they do, but we also respect Kenya’s right over this particular issue.” ![]() “We have a very strong working relationship over many years and I think the Kenyan government probably knows the U.S. “Countries have differences,” added Whitman. “In the United States we probably have a different position, which is we view LGBTQ rights as human rights, but we respect every country’s point of view on what position they want to take on this and we will respect that, but of course our democratic values and the way we feel is different and that’s okay.” “Every country has to make their own decisions about LGBTQ rights,” she said on March 3 while speaking to reporters in Kenya’s Kajiado County. Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman earlier this month said every country “has to make their own decisions about” LGBTQ and intersex rights. ![]() (Screen capture via Citizen Kenya TV/YouTube) ![]()
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