Samantha Power on the global struggle for LGBT rights
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power speaks at a Human Rights Campaign conference in D.C. on March 12, 2016. (Washington Blade photo by...
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U.N. job for former Peru first lady held up by inquiry back home
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