Since President Donald Trump's November election, there has been a wave of hate incidents nationwide—and now he's chosen a leader from one group that has itself espoused violence to represent the U.S. on the international stage.

Earlier this week, the State Department announced that representatives from infamous anti-LGBTQ hate group the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) and from the far-right Heritage Foundation will represent the U.S. at a United Nations conference on women's rights later this month:

Trump State Department sent reps from C-FAM - a SPLC-recognized hate group - and Heritage to accompany Haley at UN women's rights conference pic.twitter.com/68swSVnShp — Samuel Oakford (@samueloakford) March 15, 2017

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) noted on Twitter: "Trump is sending hate groups to a U.N. conference on women's rights."

Slate's Christina Cauterucci summarized the groups' views, which not only include denigrating rights for women and LGBTQ people, but also antipathy toward the U.N. itself:

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One delegate, Lisa Correnti, is an executive vice president at the Center for Family & Human Rights (C-FAM), which the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a hate group since 2014. C-FAM was explicitly formed in the '90s to push back against the rights of women in U.N. resolutions and policies. One of C-FAM's core missions is to advance laws that restrict the rights and protections of LGBTQ people; its president recently called contraception and gay rights "devilish gospel." The organization signed on in favor of Russia's anti-gay laws, which have led to arrests, prosecution, and physical assaults from government agents for gay Russians.