Since he took office, Mr. Obama has been quietly undoing many of the more unpleasant policies of his predecessor. There’s still doubtless a long way to go, but here’s one change that has made me happy. According to Associated Press (reported here on Yahoo) the US will now sign a UN resolution calling for an end to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The resolution was put before the UN in December last year, and the USA was the only Western nation to refuse to sign it.

70 UN member countries still outlaw homosexuality, and in several it is punishable by death.