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<p>Work to combat violence and discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
(LGBT) people forms an important part of our wider international human rights work.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office works through our Embassies and High Commissions,
and through international organisations, including the Commonwealth, the EU and the
UN, to promote tolerance and non-discrimination against LGBT people and to address
discriminatory laws, in particular those that criminalise homosexuality. <br> <br>The
UK has been a member of the LGBT core group in Geneva since 2011, playing a key role
in passing the UN’s first ever resolution on LGBT rights and recently joined its counterpart
group in New York.</p><p>Within the Commonwealth we continue to encourage the Secretariat
and the Secretary-General to do more to promote the rights of its LGBT people. The
former Foreign Secretary, my Rt hon friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (William
Hague), wrote to the Commonwealth Secretary-General in March urging him to take concrete
action to address this issue within the Commonwealth.</p>
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