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Turkmenistan-Country Reports on Human Rights Practices-2007-3/11/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Other Societal Abuses and Discrimination<br><br>
Homosexuality between men is illegal and punishable by up to two years in prison.
(PDF - 92 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 392)
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Ukraine-Country Reports on Human Rights Practices-2007-3/11/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Discrimination, Societal Abuses, and Trafficking in Persons<br><br> The Constitution and the law prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and other grounds; however, the government did not enforce these provisions effectively, in part due to the continuing absence of an effective judicial system. Violence against women and children, gender-based discrimination, trafficking in persons, and harassment and discrimination against ethnic minorities and homosexuals, and a rise in xenophobic violence were problems.
(PDF - 103 Kb) Document Date: 11 Mar 2008 (Downloads: 373)
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United Arab Emirates - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices-2007-3/11//08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Other Societal Abuses and Discrimination<br><br>
Both civil law and Shari'a criminalize homosexual activity, and Islamic religious law holds the death penalty as punishment for individuals who engage in consensual homosexual activities. During the year there were reports that the government deported and sentenced to prison individuals for being openly homosexual. Crossdressing, according to the law, is a punishable offence. On February 3, Dubai police called several men and women to be interrogated for crossdressing in public during a sports celebration parade. On July 14, three citizen men gang-raped a 15-year-old Swiss-French boy. The authorities initially did not disclose that one of the men was hepatitis and HIV-positive and threatened to charge the victim with homosexual acts when he first reported the rape. The victim left the country before any criminal prosecution. Authorities sentenced on December 12 two of the men to 15 years in jail, and the third defendant, a 17-year-old, (prosecuted at Juvenile Court) awaited his sentence at year's end.
(PDF - 103 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 352)
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Brazil- Ataques de gangues homofobicas e outros grupos assustam o Rio-Homophobic gangs and other groups scare Rio - by Aluizio Freire - www.G1.com.br- 11/12/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A formação dessas gangues não tem uma definição clara. Algumas, usam as páginas do site de relacionamentos Orkut na Internet para defender suas déias ou incitar a violência. Pregam o anti-semitismo, patriotismo, e outros que propõem violência contra nordestinos, negros, prostitutas e gays.
(PDF - 219 Kb) Document Date: 12 Nov 2007 (Downloads: 445)
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Brazil: 'Foi uma selvageria', diz casal gay agredido-"It Was Savagery" says gay couple that was attacked. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
?O mais revoltante é que esses jovens agiram de caso pensado. Eram rapazes brancos, de classe média, bem vestidos e que se expressavam bem. Tinham entre 20 e 30 anos, aparentemente e não pareciam ser lutadores. Mas tinham um discurso extremamente homofóbico?, contou o funcionário público, que assustado, disse nunca ter passado por situação semelhante.
(PDF - 97 Kb) Document Date: 28 Aug 2007 (Downloads: 438)
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Brazil: Criminosos invadem Asociacao GLBT de SP e espancam presidente- Criminals invade GLBT Association of Sao Paulo and beat up the presidente- da Folha Online 11/02/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
O presidente da Associação do Orgulho GLBT (Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais e Transgêneros) de São Paulo foi espancado na tarde desta segunda-feira na sede da entidade, na praça da República, região central de São Paulo.<br><r>
De acordo com Dimitri Sales, assessor jurídico da CADS (Coordenadoria de Assuntos de Diversidade Sexual) da prefeitura, Alexandre Peixe dos Santos estava na associação quando o local foi invadido. Ele foi agredido, amordaçado e encapuzado pelos criminosos.
(PDF - 69 Kb) Document Date: 11 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 474)
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Brazil: Jovem espancado em Niteroi faz retrato-falado de agressores- Youth beaten in Niteroi makes spoken portrait of his attackers- www.G1.com.br- 12/11/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
O jovem de 19 anos perseguido e agredido por jovens quando saía de uma boate GLS em Niterói, na Região Metropolitana do Rio, no dia 30 de novembro, fez nesta sexta-feira (7) o retrato-falado de seus agressores.
(PDF - 108 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 435)
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Brazil: Multa contra a homofobia- Fine for homophobia - by Sylvia Maria Mendonça do Amaral-www.juristas.com.br - 03/13/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
O preconceito contra os homossexuais vem sendo tratado como assunto grave e passível de multa pelo Judiciário brasileiro. Em caso recente, a Secretaria da Justiça de São Paulo aplicou multa de R$ 14,8 mil à Associação dos Funcionários Públicos do Estado de São Paulo por suposta conduta homofóbica contra um servidor público, que pretende registrar seu companheiro como dependente na entidade. Essa decisão reflete a necessidade urgente de leis que tratem da concessão de direitos aos casais do mesmo sexo.<br><br>
Prejudice against homosexuals is becoming a serious matter and possibly one of a fine by the Brazilian Judiciary. In a recent case, the Secretary of Justice of Sao Paulo gave a fine of R$ 14.8 thousand to the Association of Public Employees of the State of Sao Paulo for so-called homophobic conduct against a public servant, who tried to register his partner as a dependent in the entity. That decision reflects the urgent necessity of laws which deal with the granting of rights to same sex couples.
(PDF - 75 Kb) Document Date: 19 Mar 2008 (Downloads: 428)
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Brazil: SP: rapaz agredido denuncia seguranças antigays do metrô- Attacked young man denounces antigay subway security guards.- www.gay1.com 04/25/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Um rapaz denunciou seguranças da Companhia Paulista de Trens
Metropolitanos (CPTM) de o terem agredido na noite de
quarta-feira, na plataforma e em um sala na estação de trem
de Francisco Morato, em São Paulo.<br><br>
A young man denounced the security guards of the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Train Company (CPTM) for having attacked him on Wednesday night, on the platform and in a waiting room in the station of the Francisco Morato train, in Sao Paulo.
(PDF - 376 Kb) Document Date: 25 Apr 2008 (Downloads: 353)
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Brazil:Caso Richarlyson e a homofobia- Richarlyson's case and homophobia- by Silvia Maria Mendonca do Amaral - Juristas.com.br- 09/08/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Um caso de homofobia envolvendo o jogador do São Paulo Futebol Clube Richarlyson virou manchete dos principais veículos de comunicação do país. O juiz da 9ª Vara Criminal de São Paulo, Manoel Maximiano Junqueira Filho, mandou arquivar o processo movido pelo jogador contra um dirigente do Palmeiras que, em um programa de televisão, insinuou que o atleta era homossexual. Em seu despacho, entre inúmeras declarações homofóbicas, o juiz afirmou que "não poderia jamais sonhar em vivenciar um homossexual jogando futebol".<br><br>
O "caso Richarlyson" demonstra o grau de homofobia que assola nosso país. Mas o jogador tem demonstrado sua coragem e partiu para lutar pelos direitos constitucionalmente garantidos não só a ele como a todos nós, cidadãos, que são: honra, dignidade, igualdade e privacidade. Richarlyson poderia ter agido de três formas diferentes nesta situação: ter se recolhido e não levar a história adiante, agir por ele mesmo ou, e aí é que está o seu brilhantismo, lutar por todos nós.
(PDF - 59 Kb) Document Date: 8 Sep 2007 (Downloads: 451)
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Eritrea tackles AIDS by UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, www.irinnews.org - 07/10/03 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The HIV/AIDS epidemic is considered to be in its early stages in Eritrea. Compared to other African countries, it has a relatively low HIV prevalence rate or less than 3 percent among adults."
(PDF - 173 Kb) Document Date: 10 Jul 2003 (Downloads: 454)
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Guatemala: Intimidan a Travestis- They intimidate transgenders- El Periodico 12/26/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
La Organización de Apoyo a una Sexualidad Integral frente al Sida (Oasis) denunció que various travestis que se dedican a la prostitución en la zona 1 han sido victimas de amenazas. Son intimidados por hombres que viajan en un automóvil color rojo con vidrios polarizados.
(PDF - 26 KB) Document Date: 26 Dec 2005
(PDF - 26 Kb) Document Date: 26 Dec 2005 (Downloads: 442)
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Guatemala: Struggling to Deliver on Promises and Assess HIV's Spread- by Jon Cohen-www.sciencemag.org/ 07/28/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
One obstacle is that outside Guatemala City, free drugs are available at relatively few centers. "Most everything is centralized in this city," complains Eduardo Arathoon, who runs the Luis Angel García family clinic at Hospital San Juan de Dios in the capital. Arathoon points to an HIV-infected couple with their little girl. "The couple gets up at 3 a.m. and takes three buses to get here," he says. The centralization particularly hurts Mayans, who make up about half the population and often live in remote areas.<br><br>
These problems will soon be compounded: MSF is leaving the country, which has Lucas and many other patients worrying about their futures once again.
(PDF - 257 Kb) Document Date: 28 Jul 2006 (Downloads: 418)
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Guatemalan HIV patients slam new trade rules- by Frank Jack Daniel for Reuters NewMedia- http://www.aegis.com/ 03/30/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
GUATEMALA CITY, March 30 (Reuters) - Dozens of Guatemalan HIV patients, many with paper bags over their heads to protect their identities, protested on Wednesday at new U.S.-backed trade rules they say rob them of access to medicines.
(PDF - 98 Kb) Document Date: 30 Mar 2005 (Downloads: 319)
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Peru: Cada seis días matan a un homosexual- Estudio del Mhol revela que el Perú está muy lejos de desterrar la homofobia.- Every six days a homosexual is killed- MHOL study reveals that Peru is very far from doing away with homophobia- www.peru21.com/ 5/20/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Según el Movimiento Homosexual de Lima (Mhol), cada seis días se produce en el Perú el asesinato de un gay, lesbiana, transexual o bisexual.<br><br>
La estadística es el resultado de una investigación sobre la situación de los derechos humanos de este grupo que presenta una opción sexual diferente.<br><br>
According to the Homosexual Movement of Lima (Mhol), every six days there is a murder of a gay, lesbian, transsexual or bisexual. The statistii is the result of a study about the situation of the human rights of this group which has a different sexual option.
(PDF - 155 Kb) Document Date: 20 May 2008 (Downloads: 392)
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AIDS in India: Police Powers and Public Health by Patralekha Chatterjee, Pukaar in The Journal of Naz International Foundation-4/30/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Clashing priorities between India's police force, which wants to crack down on illegal sexual behaviour, and health workers, who promote safe sex to high-risk groups, are threatening to undermine the country's fight against AIDS."
(PDF - 117 Kb) Document Date: 30 Apr 2006 (Downloads: 443)
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Algeria: Statute: Article 388 of the Penal Code- www.sodomylaws.org 04/21/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
According to Article 388 of the penal code (adopted June 8 1996) sodomy may be punished with imprisonment from two months to 2 years and a fine of 10,000 Algerian dinars.[1] According to Article 333, an "outrage to public decency" increases the penalties in the case of "acts against nature with a member of the same sex" with a prison sentence of between 6 months to 3 years and a fine of between 1,000 and 10,000 dinar
(PDF - 43 Kb) Document Date: 21 Apr 2005 (Downloads: 466)
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Fear and Loathing in Gay India by Soutik Biswas of the BBC, news.bbc.co.uk -5/17/06 (India)
"Throughout South Asia, homosexuality has been a taboo subject. There are signs in some areas gay people are becoming more open in their behaviour."
(PDF - 502 Kb) Document Date: 17 May 2005 (Downloads: 737)
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Human Rights Watch Criticizes India by Rex Wockner of International News #612-1/16/06 (India)
Human Rights Watch denounced India on Jan. 11 over the arrest of four gay men in Lucknow. The men were nabbed at a picnic in a public location Jan. 4 and charged with operating a "gay racket" on the Internet and engaging in "unnatural" sex.
(PDF - 40 Kb) Document Date: 16 Jan 2006 (Downloads: 587)
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India - Eunuchs and gays march in Bangalore by Rex Wockner International News #624 -4/10/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Several hunderd gays and eunuchs marched in Bangalore, India, March 31 demanding equal rights and repeal of the nation's ban on gay sex."
(PDF - 17 Kb) Document Date: 10 Apr 2006 (Downloads: 459)
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