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Nigeria: Gay Man Sentenced to Death - by 365Gay.com on by GayNZ.com on 07/10/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>
A 50 year old man has been sentenced by a Nigerian court to death by stoning for having sex with men. The man was charged with sodomy under Islamic law after neighbours alleged he was gay.<br><br>
Nigeria is home to 140 million people, and culturally split between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south. 12 of the northern states have adopted Sharia codes under Islamic law for their court system, where gay sex in punishable by death. Gay men in Nigeria are routinely arrested, usually as a result of local gossip.
(PDF - 40 Kb) Document Date: 10 Jul 2005 (Downloads: 159)
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Ugandan lesbian wins UK asylum court case, will government still try to deport? and SB (Uganda) - approved judgment and case - note - (LGBT in Uganda)- By Paul Canning on madikazemi.blogspot.com, 02/24/10: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2010/02/ugandan-lesbian-wins-uk-asylum-court.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"A Ugandan lesbian, known at this stage only as 'SB', has won an asylum court case in the High Court against Home Office arguments that she could safely be deported." <br><br> This showed that there is a check on failed asylum seeker returnees by Ugandan police and that, given the current hostile attitude towards homosexuality, it would be more difficult for SB to bribe her way out of detention (as John Bosco, who was returned by the Home Office, was forced to do), and it's likely that any bribe would be for a considerable sum.<br><br>
Amnesty International said that her history of arrest and detention would mean she would be ?at real risk of harm should she be forcibly returned." Evidence presented of the abuse suffered by lesbians in Ugandan police detention ran the gamut from touching of intimate parts to the threat of being put into a male cell with the consequent risk of rape. <br><br> This document also includes the Approved Judgement.
(PDF - 1,992 Kb) Document Date: 24 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 177)
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Venezuela Diversa: Continúan operativos policiales arbitrarios en la ciudad de Caracas- Arbitrary police raids continue in Caracas- By fzaa On, www.derechos.org.ve, on 02/08/10: http://www.derechos.org.ve/derecho-a-la-seguridad-ciudadana/venezuela-diversa-continuan-operativos-policiales-arbitrarios-en-la-ciudad-de-caracas-2159 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Siendo las 09:45 de la noche aproximadamente del 05 de febrero 2010 en la calle Villaflor de la Parroquia El Recreo, se llevo a cabo un operativo en conjunto realizado por funcionarios/as de la Policía de Caracas junto a funcionarios/as del SUMAT en los lugares de encuentro de las personas Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales, Trans de la zona. Nuevamente pudimos evidenciar la forma arbitraria como estas/os funcionarias/os dejaban de lado, como ya es habitual y sistemático, los principios de razonabilidad, proporcionalidad en el uso de la fuerza, humanidad y respeto a los Derechos Humanos en sus actuaciones, aún cuando las personas que se encontraban allí reunidas no han cometido delito alguno."<br><br>
"At approximately 9:45 PM on the 5th of February, 2010 on Villaflor St. in the district of El Recreo, an operation was carried out by members of the Caracas Police along with members of SUMAT, in meeting places of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Trans of the neighborhood. Once again we were able to demonstrate the arbitrary way in which these civil servants ignored, as is customary and systematic, the principles of rationality, commensurate with the use of force, humanity and respect of human rights in their actions, even when the people that were meeting there had not committed any crime."
(PDF - 61 Kb) Document Date: 8 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 183)
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A young Palestinian gay seeks asylum in Israel - by http://ilga.org on 01/13/10: http://ilga.org/ilga/en/article/mf4Y1A81Dy (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"In my home of Palestine, the whole village was persecuting me, they have even chased me just to beat me up. They almost killed me. I prefer to stay in prison here then return there" this young gay Palestinian (aged 20) tells the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz".
(PDF - 1,002 Kb) Document Date: 13 Jan 2010 (Downloads: 189)
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Comunidad gay de Tunja volvió a ser blanco de improperios y amenazas de muerte - Tunja's gay community once again became the target of insults and death threats- by El Tiempo.com on 02/19/10: http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/boyaca/ARTICULO-PRINTER_FRIENDLY-PLANTILLA_PRINTER_FRIENDL-7269421.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
""En las narices' de los detectives del DAS de Tunja, cerca de 50 gays fueron atacados
Recibieron improperios y amenazas por parte de un grupo de jóvenes que portaban armas blancas.
Un nuevo hecho de intolerancia con la comunidad Lgbt (lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transgeneristas) se protagonizó en las calles de Tunja." <br><br>
"El pasado fin de semana, cerca de 50 miembros de la comunidad Lgbt que caminaban por la carrera octava entre calles 18 y 19, a las 2:45 a.m., se encontraron con un grupo de 20 personas (ocho mujeres y 12 hombres) que estaban armadas con puñales; luego de lanzarles improperios, los persiguieron y los amenazaron", aseguró Tatiana Ángel, vocera de la organización Lgbt."<br><br>
"Under the noses" of the detectives of DAS of Tunja, about 50 gays were attacked. They received insults and threats on the part of a group of youth who carried weapons with sharp blades. A new action of intolerance against the LGBT (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders) played out in the streets of Tunja."<br><br>
"Last weekend, about 50 members of the LGBT community which was walking donw 8th St. between 18th and 19th Streets, a 2:45 AM met a group of 20 people (8 women and 12 men) who were armed with daggers; then they threw insults, they followed them and threatened them," assured Tatiana Angel, spokeswoman for the organization Lgbt."
(PDF - 61 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 109)
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Gay life in China is legal but remains hidden - By Chu reported from Hong Kong, USA Today on 02/21/10: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-02-21-gays-China-closeted_N.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Gay festivals are shut down and websites closed, and laws preventing discrimination do not exist." <br><br>"If something's different and you publicly promote it, (the authorities) worry it could get out of control and threaten their harmonious society," says Bin Xu, director of Common Language, a lesbian, gay and transgender support group based in Beijing." <br><br> "China faces a bottleneck as government policies and legislation have not kept up" with social developments, he says. "Other disadvantaged groups like ethnic minorities, the disabled, and women and children, all have protective legal measures, but there is no clear assistance for gays."
(PDF - 159 Kb) Document Date: 21 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 116)
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Iraq rejects call to abolish death penalty - by The Associated Press, The Washington Post, on 02/19/10: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021901989_pf.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The country told the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday that it also wouldn't commit to investigating abuse against gays or decriminalize homosexuality."
(PDF - 178 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 183)
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Religion, politics and Africa's homophobia - By Pumza Fihlani , BBC News, Johannesburg on 02/23/10: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8528409.stm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Since a Ugandan MP proposed the death penalty for some gay people, homophobia has been on the rise in other parts of Africa." <br><br> In a statement last week, US-based Human Rights Watch quoted witnesses as saying Christian and Muslim leaders had joined together to call for communities to "flush out gays".
(PDF - 49 Kb) Document Date: 23 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 120)
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Transgender men seek end to Guyana dress code laws - Reporting by Neil Marks in Georgetown. Writing by Joshua Schneyer; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel and Paul Simao, Reuters on 02/23/10:; http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-46380620100223 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - A group of transgender men in Guyana have asked the country's Supreme Court to strike down laws that leave them open to arrest following a police crackdown on male cross-dressers."
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"Police in the tiny South American country, where both homosexuality and transgender dress have been illegal for decades, detained and briefly held six transgender males in jail last February on charges of "cross-dressing." <br><br>" An effort to overturn the laws has been opposed by Guyana's powerful Christian, Hindu and Muslim clergy and has gained little traction with the government."
(PDF - 59 Kb) Document Date: 23 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 221)
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Discrimination against People with HIV/AIDS in China - Wan Yanhai, Hu Ran, Guo Ran, Linda Arnade, The Equal Rights Review, Volume Four (2009)- 02/22/10: http://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/errissue04.pdf (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The employment experience for people with
HIV is similar to the experience of students in
schools. It is not uncommon for a worker who
has tested positive for HIV to be persuaded to
leave work. In some informal and small-scale
privately-owned companies, people who are
HIV positive are often dismissed outright on
the grounds that they have HIV. "
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"At hospitals patients living with HIV/AIDS
often experience discriminatory treatment
from doctors or nurses if their status is dis-
closed or revealed. Although regulations ex-
ist which require doctors to protect an HIV-
positive person?s privacy and provide them
with the same medical treatment as other
patients, in practice privacy is widely denied.
Furthermore, doctors and surgeons often refuse to treat or operate on patients who are HIV-positive."
(PDF - 277 Kb) Document Date: 22 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 111)
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Panfletos y Limpieza Social. Efectos mortales y no mortales - Pamphlets and Social Cleansing. Mortal and non mortal effects. - by Carlos H. Fernández and Silvia Otero Bahamón- www.cinep.org.co, on 07/31/09: http://www.cinep.org.co/node/722 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Distribuido en las fotocopiadoras, abandonado en los asientos de los buses y dejado en las puertas de las casas de diferentes barrios, los panfletos se han propagado por las principales ciudades del país y decenas de municipios e incluso existe un portal en Internet que los promueve . La versión estándar, dirigida a jóvenes, prostitutas, travestis, prepagos , expendedores y consumidores de droga, ladrones y homosexuales, anuncia que ?Llegó la hora de la limpieza social? y recomienda a la ciudadanía que permanezca más tiempo en casa y a los padres que ?dialoguen? con sus hijos." <br><br> "Al debate sobre los autores y las motivaciones se sumó el de los muertos. Líderes comunitarios y jóvenes han señalado en varios espacios que hay víctimas mortales de las amenazas, pero que nadie se atreve a denunciar ni a reclamar por temor a la retaliación. Ante estas afirmaciones, el pasado mayo la Secretaría de Gobierno de Bogotá respondió que si no había víctimas ni denuncias era muy difícil actuar. Precisamente, ahí radica las limitaciones en la documentación de este fenómeno, pues autoridades y organizaciones sociales coinciden en afirmar que es muy difícil establecer cuándo un homicidio corresponde a una amenaza de ?limpieza social?."<br><br>
"Distributed in photocopiers, left on bus seats and placed in the doorways of homes in different neighborhoods, the pamphlets have spread throughout the main cities of the country and dozens of municipalities and there is even an internet site which promotes them. The standard version, directed to youth, prostitutes, transvestites, sellers and users of drugs, thieves and homosexuals, announce that "The hour of social cleansing has arrived" and recommends to the citizenry that they stay home more and that parents talk with their children."<br><br>
"The debate about the authors and the motivations ends up with the deaths. Community leaders and youth have shown in various spaces that there are mortal victims of the threats, but no one dares to denounce nor complain out of fear of retaliation. Before these statements, last May the Home Secretary of Bogotá. responded that if there were no victims nor complaints, it was very difficult to do anything. Exactly, there lies the limitation in the document of this phenomenon, since both authorities and social organizations agree that it is difficult to establish when a homicide is due to a threat of "social cleansing."
(PDF - 178 Kb) Document Date: 31 Jul 2009 (Downloads: 116)
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Turkey: Stop Violence Against Transgender People - IGLHRC on 02/22/10: http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/pressroom/pressrelease/1096.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"(Ankara, February 22, 2010)?The recent murders of two transgender women in Turkey highlight an ongoing pattern of violence and the urgent need for stronger protection measures by the government, four Turkish and international human rights organizations said today in a letter to Turkish authorities." <br><br>
"The groups called on Turkey to remedy the conditions that place transgender people at risk from acts of violence by enacting anti-discrimination protections, instituting programs to combat prejudice and hatred, and repealing laws that provide an opportunity for police to harass stigmatized groups. The letter was sent by Pembe Hayat "Pink Life," Human Rights Watch, the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe), and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)."
(PDF - 206 Kb) Document Date: 22 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 113)
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RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Where Homophobia Totes a Gun By Mario Osava, ipsnews.net on 12/02/08: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44953 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
BOGOTA, Dec 2 , 2008 (IPS) - Homosexuals can remain in the closet and not be noticed, but that is not an acceptable alternative for transgender people who suffer violence to a greater extent in Colombia, where armed combatants in the conflicts too often turn prejudice into murder.<br><br>
"We are not interested in hiding our sexual preference," and in this country "killing is easier" than in others, said Diana Navarro, the head of Corporación Opción, an organisation that works for the rights of prostitutes and transgender people, a term used in Colombia to refer to transvestites, transsexuals and cross-dressers. <br><br>
"I am attacked for being black, transgender, a prostitute, and for speaking out," the activist told IPS. Her complaints of abuses against her community made an impact at the International Seminar on Human Rights, Sexual Diversity and State Policies, held Nov. 26-27 in Bogotá.
(PDF - 227 Kb) Document Date: 2 Dec 2008 (Downloads: 193)
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Sistani: "Kill Homosexuals in the Worst Possible Way" By Charlotte Baker | Published 08/18/2006: http://www.chronwatch-america.com/blogs/580/Sistani-Kill-Homosexuals-in-the-Worst-Possible-Way.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"That sect of Islam presently dominates Iran, Iraq and Yemen. Dr. Bostom again brings into bright contrast the cultural differences that somehow must be reconciled before peace breaks out in this world. It isn't helpful that Iraq's most powerful Shi'a cleric, al Sistani wants to kill all homosexuals and lesbians in the worst possible way and preaches that to his followers as immutable law."
(PDF - 26 Kb) Document Date: 18 Aug 2006 (Downloads: 191)
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Yemeni Jihaddists Murder Three Gay Men - by mypetjawa.mu.nu on 01/17/09: http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/195891.php (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The militants appointed themselves judge, jury and executioner. The murder of the gay men is the same as the murder of the Jewish rabbi last month. In both instances, the militants justify their murder of minorities as a public service. The fanatical intolerance fostered by the neo-Salafis requires the extermination of "enemies" where enemies are defined as anyone who holds a different world view or refuses to submit to their totalitarianism. The jihaddists have growing control over various territory in Yemen that is distinct from the "ungoverned tribal regions" often noted as a security concern. The Talibanizaton of Yemen is more than a territorial expansion, its also a penetration of government structures and social mores."
(PDF - 123 Kb) Document Date: 17 Jan 2009 (Downloads: 187)
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African gays speak out on "state-backed" homophobia- By Gershwin Wanneburg, Reuters on 05/08/07: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL08685953 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"JOHANNESBURG, May 8 (Reuters) - Gay activists are protesting against what they describe as "state-sponsored" homophobia in Africa, saying authorities tacitly condone their persecution across the continent." <br><br> "We're talking with people who cannot even integrate in the society. They've lost their jobs because they found out that they're gay at work, they've lost the roof over their head because their landlord found out they are gay," he said. <br><br>
"There are people who suffer homophobic attacks ... verbal abuse and I think people need assurance they're not mentally ill."
(PDF - 82 Kb) Document Date: 8 May 2007 (Downloads: 92)
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Aligarh Muslim University professor suspended for being gay - by Manjari Mishra, TNN on 0218/10: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Aligarh-Muslim-University-professor-suspended-for-being-gay/articleshow/5585787.cms (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"LUCKNOW: An Aligarh Muslim University professor, on the verge of retirement, was suspended after some students set up cameras to catch him having consensual sex with a rickshaw-puller in his campus home, and sent the video film to university authorities. Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, reader and chairman of Modern Indian Languages at AMU, now says he won't challenge his suspension and would voluntarily leave." <br><br>
(PDF - 119 Kb) Document Date: 18 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 197)
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China's Gays: Still a Long Way to Go - by www.dw-world.de on 01/29/10: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5213484,00.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The interesting thing is: as soon as there is a bit interest in the media about such things, the government gets nervous about it. And then the conservatives say, you see, you stirred up some trouble, let's stop it now before it gets out of our hands and we can't control it any longer. The Chinese government is really very much afraid of losing control of anything which is happening in society." <br><br> Damm says much is anchored in tradition, "Asian values, Chinese values are very much oriented towards family, towards procreation, towards the ancestors. The idea is that the most important thing for a Chinese family is that there are children. The idea that there can be children within gay and lesbian families has not yet arrived in China. So it is a quasi-religious feeling, that this is broken and kind of unnatural."
(PDF - 66 Kb) Document Date: 29 Jan 2010 (Downloads: 167)
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Gay Nigeria Christian Leader Narrowly Escapes Death in Brutal Attack - by UK Gay News on www.ukgaynews.org.uk on 03/21/08: http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/08/Mar/2101.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>
Changing Attitude calls on the Primate and bishops of the Church of Nigeria to condemn attacks on gays.<br><br>
LAGOS, March 21, 2008 ? A shocking story of mob violence has emerged which almost culminated in the death of one of the leaders of the Changing Attitude Nigeria (CAN) group in Port Harcourt.
(PDF - 448 Kb) Document Date: 21 Mar 2008 (Downloads: 157)
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Gay Nigerians Suffer Violent Abuse - by Pat Ashworth on www.churchtimes.co.uk on 04/11/08: http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=54948 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has added his voice to protests about threats made to the leaders of Changing Attitude, a pro-gay campaigning group.<br><br>
The Revd Colin Coward, UK director of Changing Attitude, and his Nigerian counterpart, Davis MacIyalla, have both received death threats because ?they are polluting Nigeria with abomination and immorality?. Over the Easter weekend, serious assaults were made on Changing Attitude supporters in Nigeria.
(PDF - 628 Kb) Document Date: 11 Apr 2008 (Downloads: 194)
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