CNN and Time Magazine's Fareed Zakaria moderated a panel on LGBT rights sponsored by The Huffington Post and Microsoft to kick off the second day of the 2014 Davos Annual Meeting (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/davos-2014_n_4635239.html?1390456204#58_sochi-hatred).
Speakers on the panel included J-FLAG Executive Director Dane Lewis (http://www.glaad.org/blog/watch-j-flag-executive-director-headlines-we-are-jamaicans-video-campaign), Russian and American journalist Masha Gessen (http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/author/masha-gessen/), Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin (http://www.hrc.org/staff/profile/chad-griffin1), Elliott Management Corporation founder Paul Singer (http://www.forbes.com/profile/paul-singer/), Third Point founder Dan Loeb (http://www.forbes.com/profile/daniel-loeb/) and Alice Nkom (http://www.glaad.org/blog/alice-nkom-fighting-rights-lgbt-people-cameroon), a lawyer and LGBT activist from Cameroon.
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Fareed Zakaria speaks with Alice Nkom, a lawyer and LGBT activist from Cameroon; journalist Masha Gessen; and J-FLAG Executive Director Dane Lewis. (Photo: HuffPost Live)
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Fareed Zakaria speaks with panel members Elliott Management Corporation founder Paul Singer, Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin and Third Point founder Dan Loeb. (Photo: HuffPost Live)
"The whole purpose of this morning is to give you a sense of what's going on around the world with this issue," Zakaria said at the start of the panel.
"We still have a huge struggle," Lewis said.
Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, noted that the panel came at a relevant time, after several anti-gay moves have made headlines around the world. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who is attending Davos, signed an anti-gay bill (http://www.voanews.com/content/nigeria-arrests-gays-under-controversial-new-law/1834562.html) into law earlier this month, and India's Supreme Court recently upheld (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/prerna-lal/indias-supreme-court-gay-intercourse_b_4425457.html) a law that criminalizes homointercourseual acts.
Watch a video of the panel above, and see updates from Davos below:
Source: huffingtonpost.com