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Egypt police 'widen HIV arrests'-BBC News 2/15/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Egyptian police have arrested four men suspected of being HIV positive, bringing the total detained in a recent crackdown to 12, rights groups say.<br><br>
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said last week that HIV-positive Egyptian men had been chained to hospital beds and forced to undergo tests for the virus.<br><br>
The latest arrests took place after police followed up information coerced from men already detained, HRW said.<br><br>
The Egyptian interior ministry has not responded to the allegations.
(PDF - 47 Kb) Document Date: 15 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 384)
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Nepal: 'Being Homosexual Is Not A Crime'-www.thehimalayantimes.com/ 2/7/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
On Saturday night a private Gay party at Thane Yevor was raided by the cops. Should laws pertaining to homosexuality be revised? Shocked, Bollywood reacts.
(PDF - 357 Kb) Document Date: 7 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 394)
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Bahrain: Gays to face new clamp- /www.gulf-daily-news.com By MOHAMMED AL A'ALI 2/14/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A NATIONWIDE crackdown on homosexuals could be launched in Bahrain, including tougher immigration checks to stop foreign gays entering the country. It would include a study to determine how widespread homosexuality is in Bahrain.<br><br>
Parliament's foreign affairs, defence and national security committee has already backed the proposal, which would force the government to carry out the study.
(PDF - 621 Kb) Document Date: 14 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 417)
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Homosexuality: a Challenge to Christianity- AllAfrica.com, The Monitor (Kampala) 1/4/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Homosexuality is an immoral sexual act which should be shunned by all people irrespective of their sex, calibre and tribe. Regarding homosexual acts, the traditional and exclusive teaching of the Church is condemnatory, seeing such acts as morally wrong.<br><br>
In the life of homosexual acts as well as all other expressions of wrongful sexual expression such as fornication, adultery, prostitution, incest, bestiality, masturbation etc.<br><br>
The Orthodox Church teaches that the only proper place for the exercise of sexual function is Church marriage. This therefore implies that the credence from the sources of faith, without exception, considers homosexual acts as evil.
(PDF - 134 Kb) Document Date: 4 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 369)
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Not just a pretty face- New employment opportunities for Nepal?s sexual minorities- www.nepalitimes.com/ By IRENE PERONI 2/8/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Transgender people in Nepal will now have the opportunity to study to become hairdressers and beauticians under a new scheme funded by the Norwegian government.<br><br>Transvestites are a particularly marginalised and vulnerable group with little or no access to the job market, and frequent violence directed against them. Sexual minorities experience regular extortion, exclusion from family and society, verbal and physical abuse, sexual abuse and rape, arbitrary detention, blackmail and even murder.
(PDF - 201 Kb) Document Date: 8 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 452)
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Senegal: Homosexuality must no longer be a crime- ILGA 2/14/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Paris, Dakar, Ouagadougou, Maputo, Brussels, February 8, 2008. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisations in Senegal, the Rencontre africaine pour la défense des droits de l'Homme (RADDHO), the Organisation nationale des droits de l'Homme (ONDH), the Union interafricaine (UIDH), Amnesty International Senegal (AI), the Pan Africa ILGA and its 41 gay and lesbian affiliates, and the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) and its 600 affiliates take note of the release, after 3 days of arbitrary detention, of 10 persons held in Dakar in connection with the investigation of an alleged homosexual marriage.<br><br>
On 5 February , 10 persons were arrested and detained at the Criminal Investigation Division in Dakar, Senegal. These arrests followed the publication in a monthly magazine of a report concerning homosexuality in Senegal, in which photos of individuals celebrating an alleged homosexual marriage were printed. The 10 individuals were interviewed concerning allegations of indecency and unnatural marriage. Others appearing in the photos, fearing reprisals, have reportedly fled the country and are sought by the Senegalese authorities.
(PDF - 77 Kb) Document Date: 14 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 411)
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Sodomy Rampant in Zimbabwe Prisons- www.zimbabwegazette.com, By Lee Shungu, 2/13/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Homosexuality is rife in Zimbabwe?s prisons and is treated as part of everyday life, contrary to life out of prison where sodomy is a crime, The Zimbabwe Gazette has established.<br><br>
Sources say in most cases, prisoners are raped by fellow inmates whilst other males ?fall in love?. However, prison authorities are aware of this but take no action and seem to ?appreciate it.?<br><br>
Investigating one male, a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Constable at a Harare Police Station cites it is no good for one, especially a man, to go to prison since one is most likely to be sodomised.<br><br>
Laws passed in 2006 make any actions perceived as homosexual a criminal offense. The Zimbabwean government has made it a criminal offense for two people of the same sex to hold hands, hug, or kiss. The "sexual deviancy" law is one of 15 additions to Zimbabwe's criminal code quietly passed in Parliament. The sections involving gays and lesbians are part of an overhaul of the sodomy laws. Before then, laws against sodomy were limited to sexual activity. The revised law states that sodomy is any "act involving contact between two males that would be regarded by a reasonable person as an indecent act."
(PDF - 123 Kb) Document Date: 13 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 440)
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Chile: Iglesia Católica encabeza ranking de homofobia- Catholic Church heads the ranking in homophobia-www.lanacion.cl-Por Rosalía López / La Nación 2/8/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Movilh dice que mayor tolerancia social no se refleja en instituciones ni políticos
Iglesia Católica encabeza ranking de homofobia<br><br>
El Informe Anual de DDHH de las Minorías Sexuales habla de un alza de los casos de discriminación de un 16%. De allí que el Movilh lanzara duras críticas a la clase política por no dar la debida importancia al proyecto que regula la materia.
(PDF - 440 Kb) Document Date: 8 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 366)
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Colombia: En una sola notaría de Bogotá han legalizado 100 uniones gay- In just one notary's office in Bogota 100 gay unions have been registered- www.eltiempo.com 2/11/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Se trata de la 76, escondida en un laberinto de locales de un centro comercial de Chapinero (Bogotá), en donde unas 3 veces por semana lleguen parejas del mismo sexo para sellar su unión ante la ley.<br><br>
Para Germán Rincón, abogado y activista, ha habido obstáculos en algunos centros de conciliación para liquidar esas uniones, debido a que rechazan hacerlas por ser parejas del mismo sexo. El jurista ya ganó una tutela en contra de uno de estos centros.<br><br>
It's about #76, hidden in a labyrinth of premises of a commercial center in Chapinero (Bogotá), where three times a week couples of the same sex arrive to seal their union before the law.<br><br>
For Germán Rincón, lawyer and activist, there have been obstacles in some centers of reconciliation in order to liquidate these unions, given that they refuse to do them for couples of the same sex. The lawyer has already gotten an injunction against one of these centers.
(PDF - 61 Kb) Document Date: 11 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 321)
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Homosexuality; a Challenge to Christianity- AllAfrica.com, The Monitor (Kampala) 1/4/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Homosexuality is an immoral sexual act which should be shunned by all people irrespective of their sex, calibre and tribe. Regarding homosexual acts, the traditional and exclusive teaching of the Church is condemnatory, seeing such acts as morally wrong.<br><br>
In the life of homosexual acts as well as all other expressions of wrongful sexual expression such as fornication, adultery, prostitution, incest, bestiality, masturbation etc.<br><br>
The Orthodox Church teaches that the only proper place for the exercise of sexual function is Church marriage. This therefore implies that the credence from the sources of faith, without exception, considers homosexual acts as evil.
(PDF - 134 Kb) Document Date: 4 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 383)
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Human Rights, Homosexuality and the Anglican Communion: Reflections in Light of Nigeria. by Ephraim Radner 12/30/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
At this point, we are not asking if homosexual sex is in fact "evil", only how such a conviction informs and ought to inform the Church's support of "anti-gay" civil legislation. It should be said that such a conviction and conclusion is also made by the Roman Catholic Church, as in this 2003 statement regarding the push for legalizing same-sex unions:
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The imposition of sanctions upon practices viewed as "evil" by Christians is therefore not in itself illogical. Or is it? Some Christians might argue, for instance, that punitive sanctions themselves, and the Church's support of them within a secular society, contradict basic elements of Jesus' own example, teaching, and sacrificial death, in which "mercy" predominates (Hosea 6:6, as quoted by Jesus in Matthew 9:13 and 12:7; Matthew 5:7). The Levitical penalty for homosexual actions is death (Leviticus 20:13), but few Christians would consider this kind of sanction applicable today (if really ever). Does not Jesus himself alter the very character of "sanction" in this regard, as he demonstrates in the case of the woman caught in adultery (Jn. 8:2-11)? "Neither do I condemn you." If the full penalty of the law's transgression is actually borne by Jesus himself, what parameters are left for the Church's formulation of punishment for crimes? Even the medieval Church understood its own evangelical order as prohibiting such sanctions, which is why criminals, even those guilty of more strictly religious offences, were handed over to the temporal powers for punishment.
(PDF - 419 Kb) Document Date: 30 Dec 2006 (Downloads: 375)
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Legal situation of homosexuals in Czech Republic and Poland against a background of European law and situation in other countries - Karolina Gujda- 4/30/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
For the course: Cultural Pluralism and Antidiscrimination
in Western Europe and North America
By: Laura Laubeova, Ph.D
<br><br>Homosexuality ? introductory information <br>
European and worldwide background <br>
Countries, which recognise homosexual marriages and grant them equal rights as heterosexual ones. <br>
Countries, which recognize concubinage by homosexuals and grant them some of the rights heterosexual ones possess. <br>
Homosexuals in the Czech Republic <br>
Homosexuals in Poland <br>
Bibliography:
(PDF - 184 Kb) Document Date: 30 Apr 2006 (Downloads: 550)
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Nigeria: RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs)-NGA100486.E-Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa 9/2/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The following information was obtained from a clergyman within the Metropolitan Community Church Lagos, who is also gay (17 Aug. 2005).<br><br>
Sharia Law is not legally practised in the Southern part of Nigeria, [and] the implications for homosexuals who escape the [draconian] ruling of Sharia law, usually or may well fall in to the brutality of the police force. In the south as with most other parts of Nigeria, the evidence mostly relied upon are insecure and unsafe to convict, such as a report of sexual activity between two males which sometimes can be fuelled following disagreement of any kind, sometimes gay people can also be malicious through blackmailing or revenge.
(PDF - 128 Kb) Document Date: 2 Sep 2005 (Downloads: 371)
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Nigeria: RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs)-NGA102511.E-Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa 5/16/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Treatment by society and by authorities<br><br>
Homosexuality is considered "taboo" in Nigeria (BBC 1 Mar. 2007; ibid. 14 Feb. 2007; AP 11 Dec. 2006; US 6 Mar. 2007); very few people are openly gay (ibid.; Denmark Jan. 2005, 23; AP 11 Dec. 2006). Homosexuals are generally treated as outcasts by society (Denmark 2005, 24, 25; This Day 8 Sept. 2006), and are often disowned by their own families (ibid.; AP 11 Dec. 2006; The Wall Street Journal 12 Jan. 2007).<br><br>
According to a 2 September 2006 Reuters article, homosexuals are "fiercely condemned" in both Nigeria's Christian-dominated south as well as in its largely Muslim north (see also This Day 8 Sept. 2006; BBC 14 Feb. 2007). Nigeria's Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola is said to be leading a world-wide revolt against the Anglican Church's perceived acceptance of homosexuality (AP 20 Sept. 2005; This Day 8 Sept. 2006). Akinola is said to have condemned the consecration of a gay bishop in the United States (US) as a "satanic attack on the Church of God" (ibid.; AP 20 Sept. 2005).
(PDF - 161 Kb) Document Date: 16 May 2007 (Downloads: 361)
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Nigeria: RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs)-NGA43276.E- Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa 2/15/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Enforcement of Laws and State Protection<br><br>
Two sources reported that a sharia court in Keffi, Nasarawa State, had issued a bench warrant against Mr. Michael Ifediora Nwokoma for allegedly engaging in homosexual relations with Mallam Abdullahi Ibrahim (Vanguard 28 Nov. 2004; 365Gay.com 20 Nov. 2004). Nwokoma had reportedly escaped arrest, but Ibrahim was detained by authorities (Vanguard 28 Nov. 2004). According to media reports, neighbours accused the two men of "homosexualism," a crime punishable by stoning under sharia, and handed Ibrahim to the authorities who nearly "lynched" him while trying to force a confession (ibid.; 365Gay.com 20 Nov. 2004). The court ruled that since the two must be tried together Ibrahim must remain in jail until Nwokomah is arrested (ibid.).
(PDF - 175 Kb) Document Date: 15 Feb 2005 (Downloads: 456)
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Nigerian lesbian goes into hiding-www.metro.co.uk 4/15/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A Nigerian lesbian has gone into hiding to avoid arrest days after marrying four women in the Islamic city of Kano, is has been reported.<br><br>
An estimated 2,000 guests watched Aunty Maiduguri, 45, wed the four women in a sumptuous ceremony that was followed by two days of feasting and merry-making.
(PDF - 51 Kb) Document Date: 27 Apr 2007 (Downloads: 438)
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Perceptions about Men Having Sex with Men in Southern African Country: Case Study of Print Media in Malawi- www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov-By Adamson S. Muula 6/30/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
In the southern African country of Malawi, homosexuality has almost always been discussed in relation to sexually transmitted infections, criminality, and unsafe prison conditions (6). However, negative perceptions toward homosexuality are not restricted to less developed nations, as similar sentiments have been present in America, Western Europe, and other developed nations (2). In this text, I will present and discuss the perceptions of the Malawian public toward homosexuality as portrayed in three major newspapers.<br><br>The reason for a negative perception of the idea of homosexual rights was that the majority of the people were against it, while only a minority was in its favor. What was not brought to discussion was whether indeed it was a minority asking for a change. It would be safe to suggest that we currently do not have data indicating how widespread homosexuality is in Malawi. Also, in a democracy it is faulty to suggest that nothing should be done about an issue supported by a minority. Moreover, the Malawi constitution, in Section 20 (1) states: ?Discrimination of persons in any form is prohibited and all persons are, under any law, guaranteed equal and effective protection against discrimination on the grounds of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, nationality, ethnic or social origin, disability, property, birth or other status.? This raises the issue as to whether and in what circumstances a minority group can be heard.
(PDF - 265 Kb) Document Date: 30 Jun 2007 (Downloads: 388)
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Politburo member backs gay marriage in Cuba-www.pinknews.co.uk- Staff Writer- 2/11/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A leading Cuban politician has welcomed proposals to allow gay men and lesbian marriage rights, as the country continues to discuss its future direction.<br>
The poor health of Fidel Castro, who has led the country as a one-party state since 1959, has sparked a renewed national debate in the only Communist country in the Caribbean.<br>
The revered leader's brother Raul Castro, who is acting President, invited Cubans to speak out without fear, and among complains about taxes and restrictions on foreign travel and internet access the issue of gay rights has come to the fore.
(PDF - 36 Kb) Document Date: 11 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 358)
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Azerbaijan: RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs) - AZE42772.E- Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa- 6/18/04 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Although lesbians and gays have always existed in Azerbaijan, the government does not acknowledge or engage in discussions on lesbian issues, although there is acknowledgement and acceptance of the situation of gays primarily as a result of pressure exerted by the Council of Europe. As a result, the situation of gays is relatively well known and this has led to both aggressive and tolerant societal attitudes towards them. However, silence on lesbian issues continues, probably because lesbians in Azerbaijan do not advocate for the protection of their rights or initiate attempts to change public opinion. For instance, if a lesbian is terminated from her employment because of her sexual orientation, she would not announce publicly the reason for her dismissal, she probably would not seek recourse and not all human rights organizations would represent her or advocate for her rights in such a case.
(PDF - 134 Kb) Document Date: 18 Jun 2004 (Downloads: 535)
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Azerbaijan: RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs)- AZE42666.E- Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa- 5/21/04 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The [Azeri] society's attitude towards lesbians is one of disdain. There are no visible organizations that deal with society's attitude[s] towards lesbian[s], nor any government programs directed to sexual minorities. Most of Azeri society takes the position that there are no gay or lesbian people in Azerbaijan and that it is a Western import. If a person's sexual orientation is known or they are perceived to be lesbian or gay they will be harassed at work, school, on the streets, and face ostracism from the family.
(PDF - 140 Kb) Document Date: 21 May 2004 (Downloads: 394)
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