“Today’s action by the United Nations marks a huge turning point in the global effort to end this deadly practice,” said Born Perfect Co-Founder and Chief Strategist Mathew Shurka.
The Human Element: Making Conversion Therapy in the U.S. an International Human Rights Issue
By Sam Ames, #BornPerfect Campaign Coordinator & Staff Attorney There we were. Around the illustrious circular United Nations briefing tables at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, among the 70 human rights advocates from across the United States, the largest delegation in the history of the U.N.’s Committee Against Torture (CAT). Together, as leaders of the National […]
WATCH: #BornPerfect’s Sam Ames and Sam Brinton Testify Before U.N. in Geneva
The leaders of NCLR’s #BornPerfect campaign Sam Ames and Samuel Brinton testify in Geneva, Switzerland, before the U.N. Committee Against Torture and the U.S. Department of State to bring the facts about conversion therapy to help us bring this issue to the international stage.
NCLR Urges U.N. Committee Against Torture to End Conversion Therapy
By Sam Ames, #BornPerfect Campaign Coordinator & Staff Attorney This Tuesday, I will walk into the historic Palais de Nations in Geneva, Switzerland to meet with representatives of the United Nations and the U.S. Department of State as part of the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ #BornPerfect campaign to protect LGBT youth from conversion therapy, the dangerous […]