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India: HIV boy thrown out of school- The Telegraph, PRASUN BHATTACHARYA 10/12/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
In a glaring, illegal case of discrimination , as a health department officer put it, a primary school on the southern fringes of the city allegedly drove a Class I student out of the institution and humiliated him by segregating him from his classmates. His crime was that he is HIV-infected.<br><br>
The 11-year-old boy, a resident of the Baruipur area, was detected with thalassaemia when he was nine. He receives regular blood transfusions at Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital.
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Letter to Congressional Caucus about US support for Ugandan homophobia-HRW 10/11/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Dear Congressmen:
Human Rights Watch is gravely concerned by an expanding pattern of attacks in Uganda upon the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. In recent weeks, members of President Yoweri Musevenis government have called for enforcement of the countrys draconian sodomy lawwhich punishes consensual same-sex sexual relations with up to life in prisonand have reportedly threatened to pass new laws extending and expanding the reach of punishment. Such threats are part of a long-standing pattern of harassment and state condemnation of people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. <br><br>
The resultant atmosphere threatens health as well as human rights. It also threatens to drive further underground populations affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic and further to thwart and silence prevention efforts directed at them. These attacks, moreover, come in a context where HIV-prevention efforts that condemn both the use of condoms and the fact of homosexual conduct have apparently been funded by the US government. We therefore urge you:
(PDF - 111 Kb) Document Date: 11 Oct 2007 (Downloads: 506)
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Bisexual Issues -1. GENERAL INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS -(2000-2007) Revised October 20 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
1.1. General Information About Bisexual Issues <br>
1.1.1. Bisexual Resource Center, Bisexuality (2000), online: www.biresource.org (accessed: 20 Sept 2007). <br> 1.1.2. K. Labriola, What is Bisexuality? Who is Bisexual? , online: www.babn.org (accessed: 26 Sept 2007). <br>1.1.3. S. Cahill, Bisexuality: Dispelling the Myths (2005), online: www.thetaskforce.org (accessed: 26 Sept 2007). <br> 1.1.4. Biphobia in R. Ochs & S. Rowley (eds.), Getting Bi (Boston: Bisexual Resource Center, 2005) 204-210. <br>1.1.5. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Literature Review in Bisexual Heath (2007), online: www.thetaskforce.org (accessed: 25 Sept 2007) v-vi & 8-37. <br><br>
1.2. Scholarship About Bisexual Issues 1.2.1. N. Mezey, Dismantling the Wall: Bisexuality and the Possibilities of Sexual Identity Classification Based on Acts (1995) 98 Berkley Womens L.J. 98-133.
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Bisexual Issues -2. Legal Documents (2000-2007) IGLHRC, Revised October 2007 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
2. LEGAL DOCUMENTS <br><br>
2.1 Court Cases & Administrative Decisions <br>
2.1.1. IGLHRC, Explanatory Note on Included Cases & Administrative Decisions (October 1, 2007). <br>
Australia <br>
2.1.2. SZJSL v Minister for Immigration Anor, [2007] FMCA 313 (19 February 2007) (Federal Magistrates Court of Australia) affd by SZJSL v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, [2007] FCA 1269 (20 Aug 2007).<br>
2.1.3. 061020474, [2007] RRTA 25 (7 February 2007). <br>
2.1.4. SZAKD v Minister for Immigration, [2004] FMCA 78 (19 March 2004). <br>
2.1.5. RRT Reference: V02/14641 (7 May 2004). <br>
2.1.6. RRT: Reference: N05/50659, [2005] RRTA 207 (17 May 2005). <br>
2.1.7. VRAW v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, [2004] FCA 1133 (3 September 2004). <br>
2.1.8. RRT Reference: N01/37929, (20 June 2003). 2.1.9. RRT Reference: N97/19978, (19 May 1998). <br>
2.1.10. RRT Reference: N95/07313, (27 June 1997). <br><br>
Canada<br>
2.1.11. Valoczki v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2004 FC 492. <br>
2.1.12. Christopher v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2004 FC 1128.<br> 2.1.13. RXXXXX v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2004 FC 1279. <br>
2.1.14. RPD TA1-26440 (28 January 2003) (reproduced in 212 REFLEX). <br>
2.1.15. O.O.P. (Re), [2002] R.P.D.D. No. 139 (QL). <br>
2.1.16. CRDD T98-04159 (13 March 2000) (reproduced in 140 REFLEX). <br>
2.1.17. S. Rehaag, Principal Claimant Bisexual Refugee Claims Resulting in Positive Determinations at the Canadian Immigration & Refugee Board (2003-2006) . <br><br>
New Zealand <br> 2.1.18. Refugee Appeal No 75376 (11 Sept 2006). <br>
2.1.19. Refugee Appeal No 74627 (12 May 2004). <br> 2.1.20. Refugee Appeal No 74502 (24 March 2004). <br>
2.1.21. Refugee Appeal No 1856 (25 April 1996). <br><br> 2.2. Legal News Articles <br>
2.2.1 C. Meldrum, Refugee Review Tribunal Homophobic in ABC News Online (18 May 2007), www.abc.net.au (accessed: 28 Sept 2007). <br>
2.2.2 J. Aston, Asylum seeker to stay despite bogus lesbian claim in Press Association Newsfile (May 16, 2006) (Lexis). <br>
2.2.3 T. Godfrey, Bisexual pimp gets boot in The Toronto Sun (12 Feb 1994) 28. <br>
2.2.4 Susan Furlong, Gay seeks asylum due to 1997 fears in The [Hong Kong] South China Morning Post (30 September 1992) <br><br>
2.3. Legal Education Materials <br> 2.3.1 Immigration Equality, Winning Asylum, Withholding and CAT Cases Based on Sexual Orientation, Transgender Identity, and/or HIV-Positive Status (2006), online: www.immigrationequality.org (access: 27 Sept 2007) 48-51. <br>
2.3.2. A. de Jong, LGBT Refugees and Asylum Seekers (2003), online: www.icar.org.uk (accessed: 27 Sept 2007) [Excerpts] <br> 2.3.3. N. LaViolette, Sexual Orientation and the Refugee Determination Process (2004) [Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board Training Materials][Excerpts].
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Bisexual Issues -3. Suppementary Information (2000-2007) IGLHRC, Revised October 2007 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
3.1. Attorney Contact Information <br><br>
3.1.1. IGLHRC, Contact Information for Attorneys Involved in Bisexual Asylum Claims (2000-2007) . <br>
3.2. Further Reading <br>
3.2.1. IGLHRC, List of Further Relevant Materials .
(PDF - 407 Kb) Document Date: 5 Oct 2006 (Downloads: 577)
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China: Judge strikes Hong Kong gay-sex bans Rex Wockner International News #592 08/29/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Hong Kong High Court Judge Michael Hartmann struck down the Chinese region's bans on gay sex.
(PDF - 20 Kb) Document Date: 29 Aug 2005 (Downloads: 595)
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Gays in China live a difficult life under social bias-People's Dailey Online 09/06/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Gu Du was the victim of extortion. He was blackmailed, as well as being chastised by his employer and almost fired.The reason: Gu is gay.....One night about six months ago, he was spotted browsing a gay website by his roommate co-worker. Confronted by him, he initially denied he was gay. But his roommate knew better.
The roommate offered him a choice: Gu could pay him 5,000 yuan (US$616) in hush money or he would tell the boss.
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Gays live a difficult life under social bias - China Daily 09/06/05 (Afghanistan)
The film "Wedding Banquet," directed by Ang Lee portays a gay son who is coerced into marriage. This is the fate of 80-90 per cent of gays in China according to research.
(PDF - 209 Kb) Document Date: 6 Sep 2005 (Downloads: 655)
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Uganda: International Human Rights Group Demands Accountability from U.S. HIV/AIDS Fund- 10/10/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Is the U.S. Financing Homophobia in Africa?<br?<br>
October 10, 2007<br>
For Immediate Release
Contact: Hossein Alizadeh, <br>
IGLHRC Communications Coordinator, 212-430- 6016 <br><br>
(New York, October 10, 2007) - The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has uncovered evidence that the U.S. government has funded groups in Uganda that actively promote discrimination against lesbians and gay men. In a letter to U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Mark Dybul, IGLHRC has criticized funding the groups and has asked for assurances that U.S. government funds are not being used to support homophobic organizations anywhere in the world. <br><br>
IGLHRC's investigation followed a series of distressing events in Uganda. At an August 16 press conference, Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG), a coalition of LGBT groups, launched Let us Live in Peace Campaign, calling for understanding and respect of sexual minorities. SMUG's campaign was met with an increase in hate speech by religious groups. The primary instigator of the backlash was Pastor Martin Ssempa, leader of the Makerere University Community Church and spokesman for the Interfaith Family Culture Coalition Against Homosexuality in Uganda. Ssempa organized an August 21 rally in Kampala, the country's largest city, at which more than one hundred demonstrators, including several government officials, demanded official action against LGBT people. Ssempa has called homosexual conduct, "a criminal act against the laws of nature," and has said that, "there should be no rights granted to homosexuals in this country."
(PDF - 117 Kb) Document Date: 10 Oct 2006 (Downloads: 516)
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Guatemalan bill targets gay families and single parents- Rex Wockner International News #702 10/8/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Legislation pending in Guatemala's Congress would define "family"
solely
as a father, a mother and their child or children.<br><br>
The Integral Protection for Marriage and Family Act would bar single
parents and same-sex couples from the definition of "family" and punish
any Guatemalan official who publicly contradicts the definition.
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Interview with an Iranian Lesbian in order to convey her Protest to the World 5/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
By Darya and Baran<br>
Translated by Ava<br><br>
To all the lesbian women of Iran:
As of this day we will walk in the path of freedom, hand in hand, with linked arms, firm steps and heads held high. We will break the chains that bind us chains of captivity, chains of fear. With solidarity, strength, and pride we shall stand up for life in freedom. The time of censorship, oppression and isolation has come to an end. The time has come to speak courageously of injustice, tyranny, and violation. If you and I don't air our cries of pain and sorrow to the world, we will die in a prison of terror. With one voice let us convey the problems of a lesbian Iranian woman to the world. If you and I remain silent, not only our rights but those of countless others shall be sacrificed. What are you waiting for? Together, let us cry freedom.
If you are interested in working with us, contact us at: info@irqo.net <br><br>
*For confidentiality reasons, names have been changed in the following interview.<br>
Please introduce yourself, in whatever way you prefer, to our readers.<br>
I am Taraneh, an Iranian lesbian. I'm 48 years old. 17 years ago I became a refugee in Europe.
When did you realize you were a lesbian?<br>
From childhood I preferred to have girlfriends rather than boyfriends.<br>
Why did you become a refugee?
I am a lesbian. For this reason I was arrested countless times. I went to prison and ultimately sentenced to death [by hanging]. I remember the first time I was arrested; I was 21 and a student in Esfahan. I was making love with my girlfriend in a car when I was arrested. I was kicked out of university. I spent 3 months in prison. I was whipped. Eventually I went to India to continue my education. But my family did not want me to stay there so I had to return to Iran. From there began the rest of my problems.
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Iran: IRQO articles- www.irqo.net 10/8/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Links to <br>
Reza Tortured For Being Gay (October 08, 07)<br>
Media Coverage of Iran's President on homosexuality in Iran<br>
Queers Do Exist in Iran and need your support<br>
Flogged for Throwing a Gay Party<br>
Whipped at Backyard<br>
Arsham Parsi's speech in ILGA's Panel inside of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva (October 01, 06)<br>
Arsham Parsi speaks at ARC-International and Egale Canada Gala, (June 13, 06)<br>
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Russian patriarch: Homosexuality is like kleptomania- Rex Wockner- INTERNATIONAL NEWS #702 10/8/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Patriarch Alexy II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church and Russia's
seniormost religious leader, told European MPs on Oct. 1 that
homosexuality is like compulsive thieving.<br>
Speaking to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in
Strasbourg, Alexy said homosexuality is "an illness [and] distortion of
the human personality like kleptomania."<br>
"Why don't we have advertising for kleptomania?" he asked.
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Saudi men sentenced to 7,000 lashes- Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS #702 - 10/8/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Two Saudi men convicted of sodomy have received the first set of 7,000
lashes in punishment, the Okaz daily newspaper reported Oct. 4.<br>
The whipping took place in public in the southwestern city of Al Bahah
on Oct. 2, the paper said. The men were not named.
(PDF - 24 Kb) Document Date: 8 Oct 2007 (Downloads: 548)
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South Africa: Lesbians and gays march in Soweto-Rex Wockner INTERNATIONAL NEWS #702 10/8/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
About 150 people, mostly lesbians, staged a gay pride march in
Johannesburg's large, black Soweto district Sept. 29.<br>
Wearing shirts with the slogan "Pissed off woman," the participants
demanded, among other things, protection from homophobic attacks.
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Iran: The Queerest Denial [Column] Wall Street Journal, By Bret Stephens Tuesday 10.02.07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been doing a brisk business in harassing, entrapping, lashing, imprisoning and executing homosexuals since nearly the moment it came to power in 1979, with little notice in the West beyond the occasional human-rights report. so when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the startling claim at Columbia University last week that "we do not have homosexuals in Iran like you do in your country," it offered what could have been a learning opportunity to those who think Iran is just another misunderstood regime with an equally misunderstood president. [Arsham Parsi]
(PDF - 48 Kb) Document Date: 2 Oct 2006 (Downloads: 482)
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Kyrgyzstan: Access to Health Care for LGBT People in Kyrgyzstan- July 2007 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A Sexual Health and Rights Project/Soros FoundationKyrgyzstan Report<br><br>
In the fall of 2006, Soros Foundation Kyrgyzstan and SHARP commissioned qualitative research on the opportunities and barriers to health care access for LGBT persons in Kyrgyzstan. The attached report, "Access to Health Care for LGBT People in Kyrgyzstan," explores possibilities for increasing LGBT access to health services; maps current NGOs working on LGBT health and human rights issues; highlights Kyrgyzstan's obligations to provide health care to LGBT persons in accordance with international standards and laws; and articulates recommendations for the development of non-discriminatory health systems and services to improve LGBT health access. SHARP's 2007-2009 LGBT initiatives in Kyrgyzstan will be guided by the findings and recommendations of this effort.
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Canadian IRB sexual minority cases from Djibouti 2002 to 2005 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
According to information I obtained from the IRB through an Access to Information Request (File # ATIP A-2006-00061):
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Djibouti- Canadian IRB: RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs) 2/26/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Homosexuality is illegal in Djibouti (AI July 2006; Canada 20 Dec. 2006; UK 15 Nov. 2006). In an 18 October 2004 article, Behind the Mask (BTM), "a non-profit media organisation publishing a news website intended for gay and lesbian affairs in Africa" (BTM n.d.), indicates that public attitudes and laws concerning homosexuality in Djibouti are "far from liberal" and that this is perhaps as a result of the influence of Islamic law in the country (ibid. 18 Oct. 2004). Cited in the article, a homosexual man from Djibouti states that although there are many gay and lesbian persons living in Djibouti, they live "undercover, unconfident and in fear" (ibid.). The man also notes that there is no organization in Djibouti to support the rights of gays and lesbians in the country (ibid.)
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Djibouti: illiberal attitudes - Behind the Mask, by Mask Admin on October 18, 2004 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
According to Kasdil (names have been changed) a man from Djibouti, there are many gay and lesbian people living in the country but they have little by way of a social life. "We are living undercover, unconfident and in fear."
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