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Transgender assaulted by hired goons: Family - by ibnlive.in.com on 07/29/11: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/transgender-assaulted-by-hired-goons-family/171158-60-120.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
CHENNAI: A 34-year-old transgender has been admitted in Stanley Hospital with grievous injuries following an assault, allegedly linked with a land grab bid.<br><br>
According to family members, Amul Raj was molested and beaten up by goons hired by a real estate broker. They also claimed that the police, instead of taking action against the offenders, had threatened them saying they would register a case of attempted suicide against the transgender.
(PDF - 367 Kb) Document Date: 29 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 40)
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New threat for Ghana's gay community - By Sophia Jones, by http://blog.foreignpolici.com: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/07/21/politician_in_ghana_threatens_to_round_up_the_gays (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Aidoo is not the first high profile person to go on the attack publicly. Reverend Stephen Wengam, a prominent religious figure in Ghana, recently wrote an op-ed for the Ghana Broadcasting Company where he stated: <br>
"If homosexuality is tolerated, very soon the human race will be extinct." <br><br> Ghana News Agency, a media outlet based in Accra, is claiming that homosexuality can lead to HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. While Ghana has recently cut its AIDS rate in half, the disease remains a constant fear of the small West African nation. The homosexual community has now fallen victim to the AIDS blame game.
(PDF - 90 Kb) Document Date: 21 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 33)
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In Honduras, violent homophobia is 'rampant'- By Alejandro F. Ludeña, - Source: Latinamerica Press, on http://madikazemi.blogspot.com, on 07/27/11: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-honduras-violent-homophobia-is.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Homophobia in Honduras, sadly, is rampant. Attacks against homosexuals were worrying way before the coup. <br><br> But after Zelaya was ousted, the crimes grew in number exponentially. According to data from Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, based on local Honduran sexual defense groups, at least 38 people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities were killed since the coup. Most victims were transgendered prostitutes on the streets of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, the country?s largest cities.
(PDF - 517 Kb) Document Date: 27 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 25)
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Venezuela; Secuestran a transexual y lo matan en avenida de Coche. Es la cuarta víctima atacada a tiros en lo que va de año / Transgender is kidnapped and murdered on Coche Ave. It is the fourth victim shot so far this year.- by EL UNIVERSAL, on -7/24/11: http://tiempolibre.eluniversal.com/2011/07/24/secuestran-a-transexual-y-lo-matan-en-avenida-de-coche.shtml (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Explicó, además, que no era la primera vez que Jesús Nazareth era golpeado. Cuando salía de su trabajo lo atacaban por su condición de transgénero. <br><br> ??La mañana de ayer, conocidos llegaron a la morgue de Bello Monte para gestionar la entrega del cadáver, que sería trasladado al estado Nueva Esparta. Allí, Yonatan Matheus, director de la asociación civil Venezuela Diversa, explicó que en lo que va de año, cuatro transexuales han sido asesinados en Caracas.
(PDF - 59 Kb) Document Date: 24 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 26)
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In the Philippines, LGBT fight religious attacks, arrest threats. - by Baguio Pride Network, on http://madikazemi.blogspot.com, 07/27/11: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-philippines-lgbt-fight-religious.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
5. The circumstances show that the LGBTs in the Philippines badly need the protection of anti-discrimination legislation to protect LGBTs from both private and state-sponsored homophobia, discriminatory acts and other crimes against persons and property.
(PDF - 417 Kb) Document Date: 27 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 32)
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El Salvador: ONG denuncia maltratos de la PNC contra comunidad transexual / NGO denounces mistreatments against the transgender community- by www.laprensagrafica.com, on 07/13/10: http://www.laprensagrafica.com/el-salvador/lodeldia/131684-el-salvador-ong-denuncia-maltratos-de-la-pnc-contra-comunidad-transexual.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Una organización denunció hoy que la PNC y el CAM detuvieron de forma arbitraria y discriminatoria a miembros de la comunidad homosexual salvadoreña, a inicios de julio, en contravención con el Decreto 56 que prohíbe esta práctica en El Salvador. <br> ===============================<br> An organization denounced today that the PNC [National Civil Police] and the CAM [Metropolitan Agents Group] detained in an arbitrary and discriminatory way members of the Salvadorean homosexual community at the beginning of July, going against the Decree 56 which forbids such practice in El Salvador.
(PDF - 247 Kb) Document Date: 13 Jul 2010 (Downloads: 46)
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Gay immigration: What is it like to be gay in El Salvador? Report to the U.N. details the horrors - buy Melanie Asmar, http://blogs.westword.com, on 05/10/11: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/05/gay_immigration_what_is_it_lik.php (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Other instances include reports of lesbian women being raped by police officers, a gay couple being harassed by a neighbor who called them "AIDS carriers" and threatened to kill them, and a nurse imploring a lesbian woman to "repent for her sins."
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Kassandra suffered similar violence when she lived in El Salvador. But luckily, she won't have to do so again. In early April, a Denver immigration judge granted her asylum.
(PDF - 528 Kb) Document Date: 10 May 2011 (Downloads: 49)
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Palestine Resisting homophobia and occupation - by Alex de Jong , IV Online magazine : IV438 - July 2011: http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=print_article&id_article=2211 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Haneen Maikey from the Palestinian queer group Al Qaws was in Amsterdam in June talking about their struggles for sexual emancipation and against the Israeli occupation. Alex de Jong spoke with her about being queer and Palestinan and the queer contribution to the Palestinian liberation movement for the Dutch newspaper Grenzeloos. <br><br> Of course, Palestinian society has its particularities: it is very patriarchal for instance. Even a younger brother might expect he has the right to tell his older sister what to do. Another particularity is the taboo on talking about sexuality, even straight people will not talk about it. Talking about homosexuality is a way to push for talking about sexuality in general. We are not hiding we are lesbian, gay or whatever, but talking about sexuality is a precondition for a discussion on these subjects. Some Human Rights or women?s groups might not be willing to be associated with us. But when sexuality in general is an issue, they can?t pretend it?s not an issue for them ? sexuality is not limited to gays. Women?s groups, Human Rights groups, LGBT groups, all have a shared responsibility.
(PDF - 73 Kb) Document Date: 13 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 46)
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El 85 por ciento de los homosexuales y transexuales bolivianos padecen discriminación / 85% of Bolivian homosexuals and transgender suffer discrimination- by EFE news agency, http://www.google.com, 7/7/11: http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5gt-EQpJddcMhjbBT9Lkn1ibjBuiQ?docId=1563857 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
La Paz, 6 jul (EFE).- El 85 % de los homosexuales, transexuales y bisexuales de Bolivia dicen que han sido víctimas de discriminación e intolerancia en los centros educativos, un 78 % fueron maltratados por médicos o enfermeros y el 66 % lo sufren en el trabajo, según una encuesta divulgada hoy en La Paz.
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El 69 % denuncia violencia sicológica por preferencias sexuales, el 86 % maltratos físicos o verbales de policías, el 70 % amenazas e insultos y el 66 % arrestos ilegales, agrega el sondeo, que incluyó a 632 gais, lesbianas, transexuales y bisexuales (colectivo GLTB) en las diez principales ciudades del país.
(PDF - 100 Kb) Document Date: 7 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 46)
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Mexico: Atacan con armas de fuego a comunidad transexual de Chihuahua / Transgender community under attack with fire arms.- by Leonardo Bastida Aguilar, www.notiese.org, on 07/06/11: http://www.notiese.org/notiese.php?ctn_id=5057 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
De acuerdo con Mercedes Fernández, miembro de la comunidad de la diversidad sexual de Chihuahua, desde el pasado jueves 30 de junio, un grupo de personas llegó a la zona de tolerancia para hablar con las mujeres transexuales e indicarles que en caso de celebrar la IV Marcha del Orgullo Chihuahua 2011, convocada para el sábado 2 de julio, esta se convertiría en la ?Marcha de la Sangre?. <br><br>Por el momento, aclaró Fernández, sólo se ha realizado la autopsia al cadáver de la víctima, y las autoridades no han abierto una línea de investigación. <br><br>
Fernández comentó que la violencia hacia el colectivo lésbico, gay, bisexual, transexual, travesti, transgénero e intersexual puede no tener como origen al crimen organizado, ya que desde el pasado 17 de mayo, fecha en que se decretó el Día Estatal de la Tolerancia y Respeto a las Preferencias, aprobada de manera unánime en sesión ordinaria del Congreso local, los ataques en su contra se han recrudecido, sobre todo por parte de ?grupos religiosos?.<br><br> Añadió que la comunidad transgénero también es víctima de extorsión por parte de las autoridades municipales y estatales, quienes con el pretexto de detener a una persona ?por parecer homosexual?, les piden ?sexo? para dejarles ir, por lo que en próximos días se presentará una queja ante la Comisión Estatal de Derechos Humanos.
(PDF - 92 Kb) Document Date: 7 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 35)
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Otra vez de luto comunidad gay de Guerrero / Guerrero gay community mourning once more. - By NotieSe, on 07/05/11: http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/otravezdelutocomunidadgaydeguerrero-1039139.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
El cuerpo de Sánchez Juárez, quien tenía 21 años de edad, fue hallado la mañana de ayer debajo de un puente peatonal, con varios golpes, informó José Lavoisiere Luquin, presidente del Ceprodehi. <br><br> El activista subrayó que los golpes recibidos por Sánchez Juárez y que finalmente terminaron con su vida, son similares a los que le causaron la muerte a Quetzalcóatl Leija Herrera, entonces presidente del Ceprodehi, el pasado 4 de mayo, y que hasta el momento no ha sido esclarecida por la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado de Guerrero.? <br><br>?Lavoisiere Luquin agregó que con la muerte de Javier Sánchez, suman ya 22 los crímenes cometidos en contra de la comunidad de la diversidad sexual de Guerrero en lo que va de este año. La región centro de la entidad es la que registra el mayor número con cuatro asesinatos de personas no heterosexuales.
(PDF - 66 Kb) Document Date: 5 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 33)
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The Gulf's gender anxiety Moral panic over transgender men and women is symptomatic of the Gulf's problem with shifting gender roles Rasha Moumneh guardian.co.uk, 07/06/11: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/06/gulf-gender-anxiety-transgender/print (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
As women in the Gulf become more visible, both socially and politically, and as migrants bring with them different ways of living, the region's governments are stepping up their gender policing. To allay fears among conservative elements, they are regulating more tightly what is deemed acceptable behaviour for men and women.
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The direct targets of this backlash are those who visibly challenge gender norms ? in particular, boyat (an Arabisation of the English word "boy", generally referring to women with a masculine appearance) together with transgender men and women. <br><br> In 2007, Kuwait criminalised "imitating members of the opposite sex", leading to the arbitrary arrest and detention of hundreds of transgender women. In research in Kuwait this year, Human Rights Watch found that most of those targeted by the police had suffered abuse, torture, sexual assault and harassment at their hands. <br><br> The crossing of gender norms is far more salient in public discourse about boyat and other gender-transgressive individuals. For example, an Emirati psychologist publicly advocated treatment for female masculinity early on, so that it does not lead to homosexuality. Psychologists, social scientists and social commentators treat what they understand as a rejection of women's natural place as a pathology that needs to be contained.
(PDF - 80 Kb) Document Date: 6 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 33)
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Mexico: Gay´s denuncian acosos / Gays denounce harassments - by Sandra Romero CHETUMAL, www.laverdaddiario.com, on 07/07/11: http://www.laverdaddiario.com/index.php/municipios/chetumal/1397-Gays-denuncian-acosos.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
La comunidad lésbico gay de Chetumal se dicen acosados por los elementos policiacos y, en muchos casos, discriminados en sus centros de trabajo; sin embargo, refirió su líder Luis Garibay Acosta, debido al miedo no presentan las denuncias correspondientes. <br><br>
De esa forma, dijo, la autoridad reprime a la comunidad lésbico gay, por lo cual es necesario hacer conciencia de aceptar todo tipo de preferencias sexuales.
(PDF - 75 Kb) Document Date: 11 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 39)
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Ocho de cada 10 gays son rechazados en escuelas de Bolivia: encuesta / Eight out of every 10 gays are rejected in Bolivian schools; accoriding to poll- by Gloria Carrasco,mexico.cnn.com on 07/07/11: http://mexico.cnn.com/mundo/2011/07/07/ocho-de-cada-10-homosexuales-son-rechazados-en-escuelas-de-bolivia-sondeo (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Los resultados de la encuesta establecen cinco formas de discriminación: Expulsión de una institución educativa (10.9 %), se le negó acceso a una institución educativa (11.9 %), fue discriminado por otros padres de familia (48.1 %), fue discriminado por los alumnos (84.6 %), y fue discriminado por profesores (53.2%). <br><br>
"Las diversidades sexuales en el país siguen estando sin reconocimiento por parte del Estado boliviano y de la sociedad en general", asegura el escritor Hurtado.
(PDF - 110 Kb) Document Date: 7 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 40)
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India-Pakistan: Bad Week for Gay Rights on the Subcontinent- By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS and ROBERT MACKEY, thelede.blogs.nytimes.com, on 07/07/11: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/bad-week-for-gay-rights-on-the-subcontinent/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
In a poll conducted by the Indian television channel CNN-IBN shortly after the Delhi law was changed, 73 percent of Indians said that homosexuality should be illegal and 83 percent agreed that being gay was ?against Indian culture.? <br><br> Another NDTV video report, broadcast this week, began with a news anchor saying that Mr. Azad?s comments prove, ?how little things have actually changed,? in India despite the ruling two years ago. <br><br> A recent gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender pride event in Islamabad, hosted by U.S. Ambassador Richard Hoagland, led to expressions of outrage from religious leaders. One group, which included the leader of Pakistan?s largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, issued a statement, saying the American ambassador?s actions constituted ?cultural terrorism.?
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?Such people are the curse of society and social garbage,? the statement said, according to the Associated Press. ?They don?t deserve to be Muslim or Pakistani, and the support and protection announced by the U.S. administration for them is the worst social and cultural terrorism against Pakistan.?
(PDF - 99 Kb) Document Date: 7 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 38)
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Colombia: Ataques Van Desde Burlas A Violencia Física El Colegio, Territorio Hostil Para Jóvenes Gays: Estudio- Attacks range from Mocking to Physical Violence at School, Hostile Territory for young Gays: Study- by www.eltiempo.com on 03/06/09 on: http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-3348519 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Partial translation of this article provided by Veronica Beas from the Law Office of Ruby Lieberman, San Francisco, CA<br><br>
"The investigation names "Homophobia and living in a School Setting," took place after it was confirmed that the isolation, discrimination, mocking and physical and emotional violence that many gays as well as lesbians receive int eh confines of class are not an isolated case, but rather represent a constant with serious consequences for this population. <br><br>
La investigación, denominada "Homofobia y convivencia en la escuela", se llevó a cabo después de que se comprobó que el aislamiento, la discriminación, la burla y la violencia física y emocional que reciben tanto gays como lesbianas en las aulas de clase no son casos aislados, sino que representan una constante con graves consecuencias para esta población."
(PDF - 182 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2009 (Downloads: 41)
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Jamaican lesbian can stay in UK, tribunal rules. A Jamaican lesbian has won the right to stay in the UK after immigration judges ruled she risks persecution if she returns to her home country.- - By BBC News, on 07/06/11: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-14047505 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Her case was reconsidered by the Upper Tribunal's Immigration and Asylum Chamber in London where senior immigration judges said she was "entitled to refugee protection". <br><br>
The case was identified by the judges as one of potential "country guidance" on the issue of the risks to lesbians returning to Jamaica. <br><br> Her lawyers said Jamaica is a "deeply homophobic society" and lesbians, as well as women who are "perceived" as being gay, face a risk of violence including "corrective" rape and murder.
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They argued that if the woman returned to Jamaica she would be living as a single woman with no "heterosexual narrative" and would therefore be exposed to such a risk.
(PDF - 74 Kb) Document Date: 6 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 37)
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Is it time for gay rights in Pakistan? -By Rabayl Manzoor, blogs.tribune.com.pk, on 06/25/11: http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/6628/is-it-time-for-gay-rights-in-pakistan/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
?The very term gay rights is an oxymoron here. There is no such thing. We have no rights in Pakistan.? <br><br>
Where does one even begin the debate in Pakistan?
How do you get past the literal interpretation of religious texts that leave no room for such a debate?
Islam if read as a monolith, stuck in time and fixed in space, will not allow equal rights to homosexuals.
(PDF - 274 Kb) Document Date: 25 Jun 2011 (Downloads: 43)
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Pakistani gays flogged in public - by Ashok DEB, http://lgbtbangladesh.wordpress.com, on 12/16/09: http://lgbtbangladesh.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/pakistani-gays-flogged-in-public/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The sexual minorities of Pakistan have witnessed grave human rights violation on the grounds of their gender identity or sexual orientation over the past decade. The sodomy legalisation of Pakistan is empowered to condemn the victim to an imprisonment up to 25 years, which itself amounts to a severe violation of basic human rights. Sex between two consenting adults strictly pertains to their own private lifestyle and personal prefferences and could no way be crminalised by justifying through tenents of religion, norms or so-called morality. <br><br>
This video is a glaring example to what extent persons of non-normative gender identities are victimised and humilated in this puritan islamic nation. This video clearly demonstrates the extra-judicial torture the gays had to face in addition to the ruthless anti-homosexuality legalisations. If you watch the clip carefully you can notice that the gay prisoners are boarded off the blue police van. This clearly implies that the victims were under police custody when this public flogging took place. Nowhere in a civilised world could we imagine that the law enforcers actually meant for protecting the rights and dignity of the citizens could hand them over to a group of unruly mob.
(PDF - 507 Kb) Document Date: 16 Dec 2009 (Downloads: 42)
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Homosexuality a disease that is fast spreading: Health minister- by Press Trust of India, www.indianexpress.com, 07/05/11: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/homosexuality-a-disease-that-is-fast-spreading-health-minister/812840 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today described homosexuality as a ?disease? and regretted that despite being ?unnatural?, it now afflicts a substantial number of people in India. <br><br>
?The disease of ?Men having Sex with Men? (MSM), which was found more in the developed world, has now unfortunately come to our country and there is a substantial number of such people in India,? Azad said, speaking at a convention on HIV/AIDS at Vigyan Bhawan here.
(PDF - 81 Kb) Document Date: 5 Jul 2011 (Downloads: 46)
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