J. Lester Feder & Kate Nocera: We need to have our actions stand up to our rhetoric, said Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons, who chairs the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, during an appearance on MSNBC earlier this month. We should look seriously at reducing assistance or cutting off assistance thats related to police training, their police have already been involved in LGBT violence. But if the administration is thinking of moving in this direction, they havent given any indication to lawmakers, said a House aide who works on global HIV funding. Key questions remain unanswered, like who is the administrations point person for this review, when decisions on specific programs will be made, and whether the review will extend beyond Uganda to include Nigeria — which also recently passed a law similar to Ugandas — and other nations with criminal sodomy.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:25:38 +0000
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