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Ghana: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 3/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The law criminalizes homosexuality, and lesbians and gays face widespread discrimination, as well as police harassment and extortion attempts. There is a minimum misdemeanor charge for homosexual activity, and homosexual men in prison often were subjected to sexual and other physical abuse.
(PDF - 37 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2006 (Downloads: 506)
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Guinea: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 3/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Discrimination against homosexuals is not prohibited by law, but there are no discriminatory laws based on sexual orientation. Although there were deep social, religious, and cultural taboos against homosexuality, there were no official reports of discrimination against homosexuals.
(PDF - 30 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 567)
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Ivory Coast: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 3/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The law did not provide for the protection of homosexuals or persons living with HIV/AIDS from societal and other forms of discrimination. Societal stigmatization of these groups was widespread, and the government did not act to counter it during the year.
(PDF - 32 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 646)
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Malawi: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 3/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Homosexuality is illegal, although there were no prosecutions for homosexuality during the year.
(PDF - 29 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 663)
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Mauritania: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 3/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
There was no evidence of either societal violence or systematic transitional government discrimination directed at practicing homosexuals. Although Shari'a outlaws homosexuality under certain conditions, secular laws did not.
(PDF - 31 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 629)
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Niger:US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 3/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
There were no reports of violence against homosexuals; however, social discrimination was routinely practiced. Most homosexuals hid their sexual preference to avoid this. The government took no action on discrimination against homosexuals.
(PDF - 47 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 550)
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Barbados Current Update HIV [2001- 2005] (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 336 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2001 (Downloads: 672)
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Barbados Current Update SO [2005] (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 399 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2005 (Downloads: 638)
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Barbados Shadow Report - Global Rights- 3/21/2007 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Barbados shadow report submitted for consideration to the Human Rights Committee, March 21, 2007<br><br>
This shadow report on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in Barbados was coordinated by Global Rights and the International Human Rights Advocacy Seminar at the University of Virginia School of Law. In preparing this report, contributions were provided by:<br>
Global Rights<br>
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
(PDF - 230 Kb) Document Date: 21 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 704)
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Chile: Shadow Report 3/14/2007- Global Rights (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Chile shadow report submitted for consideration to the Human Rights Committee, March 14, 2007<br><br>
This shadow report on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights in Chile was coordinated by Global Rights and the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law. In preparing this report, contributions were provided by:<br>
Global Rights<br>
International Gay and Lesbian
Human Rights Commission<br>
Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual (MOVILH)<br>
Organización de Transexuales Masculinos <br>
(PDF - 349 Kb) Document Date: 14 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 554)
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Honduras: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices/2006 - 3/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
. Representatives of the sexual diversity rights NGOs Violet Collective, the San Pedro Gay Community, Kukulcan, and the Transvestite Sex Workers Collective of San Pedro Sula asserted that their members regularly experienced abuses, beatings, killings (see section 1.a.), and other physical and verbal mistreatment from authorities. In cases where lesbians, gays, and transgenders were found
dead, the prosecutor's office often encountered serious difficulties because the victims were either concealing their identity or sexual orientation or, in many cases, were hiding from their families. Criminal investigations were categorized by female or male gender and not transgenders.
(PDF - 45 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 605)
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Mexico: U.S. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006- 3/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
While homosexuals experienced a growing social acceptance, the National Center to Prevent and Control HIV/AIDS (CONASIDA) stated that discrimination persisted. Homophobic beliefs and practices were common, reflected principally in entertainment media programs and everyday attitudes. Reports of attacks against homosexuals and transsexuals were frequent.
(PDF - 39 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 504)
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Uzbekistan: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 03/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Nearly all of the risk behaviors associated with being HIV positive, including prostitution, injecting drug use, and homosexual activity are crimes. Homosexual activity is punishable by up to three years' imprisonment. Some homosexuals reportedly left the country due to the restrictive environment.
(PDF - 37 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 634)
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Burkina Faso- US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 3/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Societal discrimination against homosexuals and persons with HIV/AIDS were problems. Persons who tested positive for HIV/AIDS were sometimes shunned by their families, and HIV/AIDS positive wives were sometimes evicted from their homes
(PDF - 50 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 561)
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Chile: Valparaiso's goverment and MOVILH agree to move forward plan to erradicate trasphobia 3/8/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Valparaiso's goverment and MOVILH agree to move forward plan to erradicate trasphobia in the 5th region- MOVILH 3/8/07<br>
Gobernacion de Valpaiso y MOVIHL acuerdan avanzar el plan de erradicar transfobia en la quinta region.<br><br>
*Acuerdo tras asesinato de transgénero y en el marco del Día Internacional de la Mujer<br>
*Cita de Movilh con Gobernación fue respaldada por diputado Rodrigo González
(PDF - 54 Kb) Document Date: 8 Mar 2006 (Downloads: 567)
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Jamaica: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2006 3/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Homosexual men were hesitant to report incidents against them because of fear for their physical wellbeing. Human rights NGOs and government entities agreed that brutality against homosexuals, both by police and private citizens, was widespread in the community.<br><br>
No laws protected persons living with HIV/AIDS from discrimination. Human rights NGOs reported severe stigma and discrimination against this group. The ILO worked with the Ministry of Labor on a program to reduce the stigma of HIV/AIDS in the workplace and to assist employers in designing policies for workers with HIV/AIDS. Although health care facilities were prepared to handle patients with HIV/AIDS, health care workers often neglected such patients.
(PDF - 67 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 595)
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MOVILH expresses total outrage for the new murder of transgender in Chile-Movil 3/6/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
6 de marzo, 2007.-<br>
Declaración pública:<br>
MOVILH EXPRESA TOTAL REPUDIO POR NUEVO ASESINATO DE TRANSGENERO EN CHILE<br>
*Movilh pidió hoy a la FiscalÃa la máxima rigurosidad en las investigaciones<br>
*Movilh anuncia plan para informar a ciudadanÃa sin prejuicios sobre realidad trans.<br>
*Movilh lamenta que la sociedad pierda su capacidad de asombro frente a este tipo de atroces delitos<br>
*A le fecha, suman 10 los asesinatos contra homosexuales y transexuales
El Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual (Movilh) expresó hoy su total y más contundente repudio por el nuevo asesinato de una persona transgénero que afectó esta vez a Moira Donaire González, una persona de 30 años que la madrugada de ayer recibió en Viña del Mar cinco estocadas con una cortapluma de parte de un comerciante identificado como Rubén Gallardo Aranda.
Los hechos tuvieron lugar cuando Moira se acercó al carro de este vendedor de completos, ubicados en las calles ValparaÃso con plaza Sucre (en pleno centro de la Ciudad JardÃn), iniciándose un enfrentamiento cuyos alcances investiga desde ayer la FiscalÃa de Viña del Mar, luego que el homicida fuera apresado por la Primera ComisarÃa de la mencionada ciudad.
(PDF - 55 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 637)
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the challenges to successful lesbian asylum claims- NCLR 2/28/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The challenges to successful lesbian asylum claims <br><br>
Introduction <br>
I. Barriers toLesbian Flight or Migration FromTheir Home Country <br>
A. Cultural and Social Barriers
B. Economic and Financial Burdens
C. Legal Risks and Physical Vulnerabilities <br><br>
II. The Legal Challenges to Lesbian Asylum Claims
Upon coming to the United States, lesbians face myriad challenges to a successful asylum claim. In general,
A. Proof of Membership in the Lesbian Social Group: The Parameters of the Lesbian Social Group Can Be Under-Estimated
i. The Experiences of Lesbian Asylum Applicants May Not Reflect American Notions of Lesbian Life
ii. Not All Lesbian Applicants Will Be Out
iii. Many Lesbian Applicants May Be Married Or May Have Been Married In The Past
v. Final Words on Proof of Membership in the Lesbian Social Group
B. Proof of Past Persecution
i. State-Sponsored Violence Against Lesbians
ii. State Actorâ??s Willful Neglect or Inability to Protect
iii. Final Words on State and Non-State Persecution
C. Fear of Future Persecution
D. Establishing a Nexus Between the Persecution and the Applicantâ??s Sexual Identity
E. Proof of Inability to Relocate
F. Meeting the one-year deadline <br><br>
III. Other bases for Asylum Claims
Homosexuality has become at once a well-established ground for asylum, and, as seen above, a particularly
challenging basis for lesbians to stake a claim. A claim for asylum based on persecution
A. Other classifications under Particular Social Group
i. Gender
ii. Forced Marriage
iii. Family
B. Asylum On Account of Political Opinion
Conclusion
THE CHALLENGES TO SUCCESSFUL LESBIAN ASYLUM CLAIMS
Endnotes
(PDF - 986 Kb) Document Date: 28 Feb 2007 (Downloads: 533)
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Transgender Asylum Seekers and Name Chages- Transgender Law Center [SF]- 3/7/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The Citizenships and Immigration Service will recognize a transgender person's change of name so long as the change is accompanied by a court ourder.
(PDF - 94 Kb) Document Date: 7 Mar 2006 (Downloads: 633)
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Perú: FEROZ AGRESION A TRAVESTI EN LA CIUDAD DE TARAPOTO- Boletin Diversidad- Fierce attack on a transgender in the city of Tarapoto-3/5/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Tarapoto, ciudad ubicada al nororiente peruano en la región San Martín, fue escenario de un hecho de sangre que dejó al borde de la muerte a una persona travesti. En efecto mediante un comunicado de prensa el grupo Diversidad Sanmartinenese informó que una persona travesti cuyo nombre legal es Juan Carlos de la Cruz Mori, fue agredida brutalmente por sus vecinos que usaron machetes y piedras, originándole heridas que han puesto en riesgo la vida de esta persona la cual se encuentra hospitalizada.<br><br>
Tarapoto, a city located in the northeast of Perú in the region of San Martín, was the scene of a bloody act which left a transvestite person on the brink of death. In fact, by means of a press release, the group San Martin Diversity, reported that a transvestite person whose legal name is Juan Carlos de la Cruz Morí, was brutally attacked by his neighbors who used machetes and rocks, causing him wounds which have put in danger the life of this person who is still hospitalized.
(PDF - 55 Kb) Document Date: 5 Mar 2006 (Downloads: 655)
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