{"id":48832,"date":"2022-05-30T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T17:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48832"},"modified":"2022-05-30T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T17:56:06","slug":"u-s-special-envoy-to-advance-the-human-rights-of-lgbtqi-persons-sterns-travel-to-lithuania-the-netherlands-and-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48832","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Stern\u2019s Travel to Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>05\/30\/2022 12:02 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Special Envoy Jessica Stern will travel to Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Sweden, May 31-June 8.\u00a0 During her visits, Special Envoy Stern will engage with local human rights defenders and civil society representatives regarding the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons globally, with a specific focus on LGBTQI+ refugees from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In the Netherlands and Sweden, Special Envoy Stern will meet with government and civil society counterparts to discuss advancing the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons via multilateral institutions and public-private partnerships such as the Global Equality Fund.<\/p>\n<p>In Lithuania, among her engagements, the Special Envoy will participate in Baltic Pride\u2019s Proud Cities Summit, where she will speak in the first session panel discussion on \u201cEquality, Diversity, Inclusion: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities\u201d and engage with youth at an informal Q&amp;A session.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/30\/2022 12:02 PM EDT Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48833,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48832\/revisions\/48833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}