The United Nations Security Council has discussed attacks by the Islamic State militants on sexual minorities, in the first meeting by the organization to be focused on gay rights.

The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power yesterday stated that it's about time that the fate of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender persons who fear for their lives around the world is taking centre.

The US and Chile hosted the meeting which was open to all member states interested in the plight of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people persecuted by the armed group.

All one hundred and ninety-three UN member states were invited. Two of the fifteen Security Council members, Chad and Angola, did not attend the closed meeting.

Jessica Stern, executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Rights Commission told the security council that courts established by ISIL in Iraq and Syria claim to have punished sodomy with stoning, firing squads and beheadings, and by pushing men from tall buildings.