{"id":16886,"date":"2016-01-20T09:58:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T07:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=16886"},"modified":"2016-01-20T09:58:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T07:58:56","slug":"us-gay-rights-envoy-sneaks-into-and-outof-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/01\/20\/us-gay-rights-envoy-sneaks-into-and-outof-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"US gay rights envoy sneaks into and outof Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons, Randy Berry, yesterday swiftly came and left Malawi after brief meetings with government officials, civil society leaders and the clergy, The Daily Times has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>By the time The Daily Times made a request for an interview through the US Embassy Tuesday\u00a0morning, Berry was already on his way to the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy\u2019s Public Affairs Officer, Edward Monster, acknowledged the meetings but did not give details as to who met the envoy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 The objective of these meetings was to convey the US government\u2019s continuing commitment to promoting the human rights of all people, the LGBTI community included, in Malawi and globally, and to discuss the current political and social landscape in regards to LGBTI issues,\u201d Monster said in an email response.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the details of the meeting, Director of Information Bright Mollande said he was not in a position to comment because he had not been instructed to do so yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons, Randy Berry, yesterday swiftly came and left Malawi after brief meetings with government officials, civil society leaders and the clergy, The Daily Times has learnt. By the time The Daily Times made a request for an interview through the US Embassy Tuesday\u00a0morning, Berry was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16887,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886\/revisions\/16887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}