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PostSubject: Rights violation: Obuma to issue gay rights executive order   Rights violation: Obuma to issue gay rights executive order Icon_minitimeMon Jun 16, 2014 11:52 pm

President Barack Obama will sign an order banning federal government contractors from discriminating against gay and transgender workers, officials have said.

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The executive order follows years of pressure from gay rights groups.

Mr Obama cannot extend the protection to all American workers, however.

The order comes after far broader anti-discrimination legislation stalled in the Republican-led House of Representatives.

The executive order will apply only to federal contractors, which employ nearly one-quarter of the US workforce.

"This is a major step forward in the struggle for freedom and justice for [lesbian, gay, transgender and "queer"] workers and their families," Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said in a statement. "Now millions of people will have the economic security they need to provide for their families."

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