Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
UN chastises Finland for rejecting asylum request from lesbian couple’s child fleeing Russia
metroweekly.comSee also: Anti-gay Russian group inspired by “Saw” threatens to hunt LGBTQ people in EuropeThe decision by the committee against Finland is the first asylum-related case involving a child who faces risks to his personal and emotional well-being as a result of discrimination stemming from his mothers’ sexual orientation.
It also marks the first time that the committee has made a decision on sexual orientation, and the first case dealing with the rights that children of same-sex couples are entitled to in countries that have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to LGBTQ advocacy group ILGA World.The committee’s decision was informed by a third-party intervention submitted by ILGA World, its European chapter, the.
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