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NIJC/ National Asylum Partnership on Sexual Minorities- List of LGBT organizations that provide support for LGBT immigrants-11/15/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 88 Kb) Document Date: 15 Nov 2007 (Downloads: 341)
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Tanzania: IHEU protests New Homophobic Law in Zanzibar-Submitted by Gogineni 8/24/04 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
<br><br>Muslim-majority Zanzibar - an island nation and an important tourist destination on the East African coast - is the latest country to demonstrate homophobia. Zanzibar's President has given his assent to a Bill passed unanimously by the Zanzibar Parliament. The new law imposes a 25 year prison sentence for men indulging in homosexual acts and 7 years for lesbian acts.<br><br>
IHEU regrets the homophobia sweeping the African continent, and calls upon governments and international Human Rights institutions to take note of the serious violation of the individual's right to retain his or her sexual identity and orientation. Homosexual men and women are amongst the most vulnerable groups in Africa. They face immense social prejudice and government harassment.
(PDF - 93 Kb) Document Date: 24 Aug 2004 (Downloads: 337)
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ACCIÓN URGENTE: DEMANDEMOS AL CONGRESO PERUANO QUE RECONOZCA EL DERECHO A LA NO DISCRIMINACIÓN A JOV (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
ASK THE PERUVIAN CONGRESS TO RECOGNIZE THE RIGHT OF YOUNG HOMOSEXUALS TO NON-DISCRIMINATION- IGLHRC 12/13/07<br><br>
RESUMEN<br><br>
El Congreso Peruano esta debatiendo la adhesin a la Convencin Iberoamericana de Derechos de los Jvenes (Espaa, 2005), que busca promover y garantizar los derechos de la juventud y a su vez remediar la situacin de desigualdad que viven miles de jvenes por diversas razones, como tener una orientacin sexual distinta de la heterosexual. Sin embargo la Comisin de Relaciones Exteriores del Congreso de Per plantea reservas en este aspecto, es decir, se opone a los derechos de las personas lesbianas, trans, gays y bisexuales.
(PDF - 89 Kb) Document Date: 13 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 494)
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Chile: Pretenden derogar sanciones por ofensas al pudor y las buenas costumbres-12/11/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual aseguró que proyecto que se presentará mañana cuenta con el respaldo de diversos parlamentarios.
Con el patrocinio de diversos parlamentarios y el respaldo de la Federación Chilena de la Diversidad Sexual (Fedisech), el Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual (Movilh) ingresaré este miércoles 12 de diciembre al Congreso Nacional un proyecto de ley que deroga el artículo 373 del Código Penal, el cual sanciona las ofensas al pudor, la moral y las buenas costumbres.<br><br>
Dicho trabajo, que es parte del proyecto, ?demostró que las policías aplican arbitrariamente la norma para detener, agredir, torturar y hostigar a diversos sectores sociales, como los jóvenes, las minorías sexuales y los inmigrantes?.
(PDF - 44 Kb) Document Date: 11 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 465)
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Chile: protestan contra la homofobia de la Iglesia Católica- AG Magazine.com 12/9/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
There are demonstrations against the Catholic Church's homophobia<br><br>
En el Día Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, el Movilh llamó a las autoridades a implementar políticas públicas y aprobar leyes efectivas para prevenir y combatir la discriminación por orientación sexual e identidad de género.
(PDF - 679 Kb) Document Date: 9 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 441)
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Dubai Court Sentences Two in Rape- The New York Times 12/13/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A Dubai court sentenced two men on Wednesday to 15 years in prison for the rape of a French-Swiss teenager whose case became a rallying point for critics of the way the United Arab Emirates treats victims of sexual assault.<br><br>
When the teenager, Alexandre Robert, 15, first reported that he had been gang-raped by three men in July, the authorities discouraged him from pressing charges and raised the possibility of charging him with criminal homosexual activity, his family said. And Dubai authorities did not tell the victim?s family for more than a month after the attack that one of the assailants had tested positive for H.I.V. while in prison earlier.
(PDF - 69 Kb) Document Date: 13 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 383)
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Edomex: autoridades hostigan a maestro por su preferencia sexual- La Jornada, Alma E. Muñoz 12/11/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Authorities harass teacher for his sexual preference-<br><br>A siete meses de haber participado en la jornada del Día Internacional contra la Homofobia caracterizado de mujer, Agustín Estrada Negrete, director de una escuela para niños discapacitados, enfrenta en la Secretaría de Educación Pública una queja por su tendencia sexual, promovida por una consejera de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del estado de México.<br><br>
La situación lo hace temer por su vida, pues las amenazas y ataques de la funcionaria van en aumento. Su acusadora es María Magdalena Salgado Contreras, quien también se desempeña como jefa del departamento de educación especial en Toluca.
(PDF - 58 Kb) Document Date: 11 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 523)
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Morocco: Overturn Verdicts for Homosexual Conduct- HRW 12/12/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(New York, December 12, 2007) ? The criminal verdicts in Morocco against six men sentenced to prison for homosexual conduct should be set aside and the men released, Human Rights Watch said today.<br><br>
The court of first instance in Ksar el-Kbir, a small city about 120 kilometers south of Tangiers, convicted the men on December 10 of violating article 489 of Morocco?s penal code, which criminalizes ?lewd or unnatural acts with an individual of the same sex.? According to lawyers for the defendants, the prosecution failed to present any evidence that the men actually had engaged in the prohibited conduct in the first place. <br><br>
?These men are behind bars for private acts between consenting adults that no government has any business criminalizing in the first place,? said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. ?The men?s rights to privacy and freedom of expression have been violated, and the court has convicted them without apparent evidence; they should be set free.?
(PDF - 73 Kb) Document Date: 12 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 417)
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Se casa la primera pareja gay en Colombia-First gay couple gets married in Colombia- Anodis.com - Marisela Rafael de la Cruz 12/11/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
En una ceremonia íntima, Manuel José y John Alejandro se unieron por lo civil. El hecho se dio después de que legisladores reconocieran por primera vez en la historia del país la existencia jurídica de parejas conformadas por personas homosexuales.<br><br>Una de tantas parejas gays que ya goza de los mismos derechos que un matrimonio heterosexual, es la conformada por Manuel José y John Alejandro, quienes después de siete años de noviazgo decidierón ir más alla y contraer nupcias en Medellín el pasado viernes siete de diciembre.<br><br>A pesar de que la ley reconoce las uniones entre personas del mismo sexo, aún persisten dudas respecto a la figura jurídica, tal como hace unos días publicó el diario El País: ?Ni siquiera el secretario del Senado, Emilio Otero Dajud, se atreve a certificar la aprobación del proyecto, aunque hay congresistas que aseveran que la iniciativa debe pasar a su tercer debate en la Cámara de Representantes?<br><br>
In an intimate ceremony, Manuel José and John Alejandro were married in a civil ceremony. The event took place after legislators recognized for the first time in the history of the country the legal existence of couples made up of homosexual people.<br><br>
One of many gay couples which now enjoys the same rights as a heterosexual couple, is the one made up of Manuel José and John Alejandro, who after seven years of engagement decided to go further and to get married in Medellin last Friday, December 7th.
(PDF - 150 Kb) Document Date: 11 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 436)
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URGENT ACTION: ASK THE PERUVIAN CONGRESS TO RECOGNIZE THE RIGHT OF YOUNG HOMOSEXUALS TO NON-DISCRIMINATION-IGLHRC 12/13/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
SUMMARY<br><br>
The Peruvian Congress is debating joining the Ibero-American Convention on the Rights of Youth (Spain, 2005) that seeks to promote and safeguard the rights of young people. The Convention also seeks to remedy the inequality that thousands of young people confront for a variety of reasons, including for having a sexual orientation different from heterosexuality. But the Foreign Relations Committee of the Congress of Peru has raised concerns in this respect, and opposes the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
(PDF - 70 Kb) Document Date: 13 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 432)
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Challenging Stigma and Discrimination in Mexico HIV/AIDS Alliance.org 1/16/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
HIV/AIDS Alliance-Supporting community action on AIDS in developing countries.
Men who have sex with men are frequently discriminated against in the family, with male family members often finding them more difficult to accept. So these men are often supported emotionally by friends rather than family. This points to the relevance of working on family and social networks linked to these populations. Many people living with HIV/AIDS testify to violations of their human rights in terms of unfair dismissal from work and mistreatment by health service providers. Most lose their jobs when employers learn of their status. And public hospitals offer an appalling level of service, partly out of ignorance but also because of a lack of specialized medical personnel. It is also common for health workers to violate clients? confidentiality.
(PDF - 118 Kb) Document Date: 16 Jan 2006 (Downloads: 491)
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Croatia sees first openly gay candidate- Rex Wockner International News #711 12/10/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"I came out of the closet exclusively as rebellion and [in] solidarity
with those who were discriminated against and humiliated, and I state that with pride everywhere I go," he told Javno. "My goal in politics is to, by coming out of the closet, have the sexual orientation of people become a completely irrelevant issue."
(PDF - 22 Kb) Document Date: 10 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 509)
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Mexican Parties Would Nominate Gay Candidates-Newsletter-Issue #87-German Rincon Perfetti 1/16/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The different political parties expressed their intention to open new spaces so members of the GLBT community can have access to public posts and can defend their rights.
(PDF - 52 Kb) Document Date: 16 Jan 2006 (Downloads: 554)
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Brazilian government organizes large LGBT conference- Rex Wockner International News #711 - 12/10/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Brazil's federal government is organizing a groundbreaking 1st National Conference of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals and Transpersons.<br><br>
Subtitled "Human Rights and Public Policies: The Way Forward to Ensuring the Citizenship of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals and Transpersons," the event will be held May 9-11, 2008.
(PDF - 23 Kb) Document Date: 10 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 419)
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LGBT rights in Tunisia- http://en.wikipedia.org 10/13/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Contents<br>
* 1 Penal Code<br>
* 2 Position of the governmen<br>
* 3 Gay life in Tunisia<br>
* 4 External links<br>
(PDF - 41 Kb) Document Date: 13 Oct 2007 (Downloads: 451)
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Man hanged in Iran for 'anal rape' -Rex Wockner International # 711 12/10/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A 21-year-old man was hanged in Iran's Kermanshah Central Prison on"anal rape" (ighab) charges Dec. 5 despite a November order from the nation's chief justice, Ayatollah Syed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, that stayed the execution and sent the case for a retrial.<br><br>
Shahroudi had determined that Makvan Mouloodzadeh's sentence violated Islamic teaching, decrees of senior Shiite clerics and Iranian law, after Mouloodzadeh's lawyer argued that there was no evidence of the alleged crimes and that several elements of the case violated proper procedure.
(PDF - 26 Kb) Document Date: 10 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 438)
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Panama: DECRETO NUMERO 149 [Decree 149] (DE 20 DE MAYO DE 1949) (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Ministerio de Trabajo, Previsión Social y Salud Pública<br><br> Panama's Decree 149, which is still part of the laws of this country, that punishes the practice of sodomy with a month up to a year imprisonment and $50 to $500 fine. Many people believe that it deals with public sex, and it does not. This information is validated by the Defensoría del Pueblo, The National Assembly and the University of Panama, as an actual law of the country that monitors morality in the population. - Ricardo Eloy Beteta Bond, Asociacion Hombres y Mujeres Nuevo de Panama
(PDF - 198 Kb) Document Date: 11 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 385)
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Russian gays arrested at polling place- Rex Wockner International # 711 12/10/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Thirteen gays and lesbians were arrested in Moscow Dec. 1 as they were voting at a polling
place. <br><br>
The activists, including lead Pride organizers Nikolai Alekseev and Nikolai Baev, were later
charged with staging an illegal demonstration. <br><br>
The detentions were an apparent response to a call by activists for gays to write "No to
homophobes!" on their ballots.
(PDF - 22 Kb) Document Date: 10 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 512)
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Status of LGBT in Tunisia Globalgayz.com 12/11/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Legal wise<br><br>
status of homosexuality: illegal<br>
age of consent: 20<br>
laws covering homosexual activity: Article 230 [of the Penal Code of 1913 (largely modified in 1964)] decrees imprisonment of up to three years for sodomy between consenting adults. (Arno Schmitt and Jehoeda Sofer - "Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies") ILGA<br><br>
The Pink Book states that Article 230 covers both women and men.<br><br>
transgender rights
December 22, 1993: The Appeal Court of Tunis dismissed the request of a transsexual to change his civil status.
(PDF - 172 Kb) Document Date: 11 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 541)
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Tunisia: Canada IRB, Country of Origin Research- RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs)- 5/17/04 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
TUN42654.FE <br><br> 17 May 2004<br>
Tunisia: Treatment of lesbians by society and authorities; the protection available to lesbians (2003-2004) <br><br>According to several sources, Article 230 of the Tunisian penal code provides for imprisonment of up to three years for sodomy between consenting adults (ILGA 31 July 2000; Gay Rights Info 1 May 2004; Switzerland 5 July 2000, 6). ILGA and Behind the Mask, a Website on gay and lesbian issues in Africa, cite The Pink Book, which states that Article 230 also applies to women (ILGA 31 July 2000; Behind the Mask n.d.). The Universités d'Eté Euroméditerranéennes des Homosexualités (UEEH), quoting a presentation by Amnesty International, points out that the word "sodomy," as used in Article 230, refers to any homosexual act (UEEH n.d.).
(PDF - 130 Kb) Document Date: 17 May 2004 (Downloads: 506)
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