{"id":33530,"date":"2018-10-30T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33530"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:46:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:16:07","slug":"obama-highlights-issues-of-tolerance-ngos-lgbt-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/obama-highlights-issues-of-tolerance-ngos-lgbt-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama highlights issues of tolerance, NGOs, LGBT rights\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/former-us-president-barack-obama-highlights-issues-on-tolerance-ngos-lgbt-rights\/article21243784.ece\"><strong>Obama highlights issues of tolerance, NGOs, LGBT rights<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unveiling his new role as a social reformer at a townhall and media event in Delhi, former United States President Barack Obama highlighted issues of religious tolerance,\u00a0 LGBT community rights, and the importance of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did Obama say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking on Friday at a townhall event of 300 youth leaders, activists and social entrepreneurs organised by the Obama Foundation, Mr. Obama spoke out about the importance of \u201cfinding a voice\u201d for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community<\/li>\n<li>Referring to a \u201ccounter-narrative\u201d to tolerance in the US, Europe and India, Mr. Obama also said, &#8220;For a country like India where there is a Muslim population that is successful, integrated and considers itself as Indian \u2014 which is not the case in some other countries, this should be nourished and cultivated.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Here in India the NGOs are necessary to help solve problems. NGO\u2019s should be seen not as a threat, but a partner, and play a role in the solution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama highlights issues of tolerance, NGOs, LGBT rights\u00a0 Context Unveiling his new role as a social reformer at a townhall and media event in Delhi, former United States President Barack Obama highlighted issues of religious tolerance,\u00a0 LGBT community rights, and the importance of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) What did Obama say? Speaking on Friday at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/obama-highlights-issues-of-tolerance-ngos-lgbt-rights\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama highlights issues of tolerance, NGOs, LGBT rights\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704288509},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}