UK integrates LGBT rights in its foreign policy

UK integrates LGBT rights in its foreign policy
A document has been elaborated by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in order to encourage the promotion of LGBT Rights. This “LGBT Toolkit” has been sent to British embassies and diplomatic instances over the world so that they integrate it in their relations with the host countries.
The FCO wants to express its dedication to “equality in the enjoyment of human rights and the inadmissibility of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation”. It points out that no international Human Rights Treaty, except in Europe, specifically mentions sexual orientation.
However it refers to the increasing number of UN reports on violence and discrimination against LGBT people and also the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The main topics covered in the document are the decriminalization in countries where same sex relations are punished by the death penalty or live imprisonment, support to LGBT activists as to any other Human Rights advocate or encourage non-discriminating HIV/AIDS programs, especially in Europe.
By referencing some NGO’s or media’s websites and information on specific LGBT issues and British statements and views on them, the “LGBT Toolkit” constitutes also a useful source of information for all LGBT people and activists. And not only for English-speaking ones, as the document has been translated in some eastern European languages: