Ministerial Meeting: LGBT Rights Are Human Rights

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (centre) at the 69th UN General Assembly Ministerial Event ""Free & Equal: LGBT Rights are Human Rights"", with (from left) Patti Londoño, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia; Igor Luksic, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Montenegro; Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, Minister of External Relations of Brazil; John Kerry, Secretary of State of the United States; Amanda Ellis, Special Envoy to the Prime Minister of New Zealand; Héctor Marcos Timerman, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Argentina; Frans Timmermans, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; Stavros Lambrinidis, Special Representative for Human Rights of the European Union; Børge Brende, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway; Annick Girardin, Minister of Development of France; Akira Kono, Ambassador of UN Affairs of Japan; Mark Lyall Grant, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the UN; Vesna Pusic, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Croatia; Rubén Zamora, Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the UN; and Luis Almagro, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uruguay.