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Fiji bans antigay march- Rex Wockner-11/14/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 19 Kb) Document Date: 14 Nov 2005 (Downloads: 666)
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Fiji Court Overturns Sodomy Law-Gays Set Free-by Peter Hacker 365Gay.com Asia Bureau Chief-8/26/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(Suva) Fiji's High Court overturned the convictions of two gay men on Friday, ruling that the South Pacific island's sodomy law was unconstitutional.<br>
The court released Thomas McCoskar, a 55-year-old Australian, and Dhirendra Nadan, a 23-year-old native man, telling McCoskar he was free to leave Fiji and return home. <br>
McCoskar, a retired university professor from Victoria state, and Nadan were convicted earlier this year and sentenced to two years in prison.
(PDF - 267 Kb) Document Date: 26 Aug 2005 (Downloads: 588)
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Fiji gay sex convictions overturned- Rex Wockner-9/5/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The convictions of an Australian tourist and a Fijian man for having sex
in private in Fiji last April were overturned Aug. 26.<br>
Lautoka High Court Justice Gerard Winter struck down the convictions on
constitutional grounds, citing rights to privacy and equality.<br>
State prosecutors said they may appeal the decision.<br>
Thomas McCosker, 55, and Dhirendra Nandan, 23, had been convicted of
"unnatural offence" and "indecent practice between males" by a judge who
called their crimes "something so disgusting that it would make any
person vomit."
(PDF - 20 Kb) Document Date: 5 Sep 2005 (Downloads: 662)
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Iran hangs two young homosexuals Sun. 13 Nov 2005 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Iran Focus<br>
Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 - Two young men were hanged in a public square in the northern city of Gorgan after being found guilty of lavat, or homosexual relationship, a semi-official daily reported on Sunday.<br>
The two men, identified as Mokhtar N. and Ali A., were aged 24 and 25 years old respectively. They were hanged in public in Shahid Bahonar Square in Gorgan, the daily Kayhan wrote.<br>
The newspaper said the "criminal past" of the two young men included kidnapping and rape, but the report made it clear that the "crime" for which they were hanged was lavat, which means homosexual relationship between two men or sodomy.<br>
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4404
(PDF - 108 Kb) Document Date: 13 Nov 2005 (Downloads: 620)
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Iran Reportedly Executes Two More Gay Men - by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Posted: November 14, 2005 12:01 am ET <br>
(Tehran) Two men have been hanged in a public square in northern Iran after being found guilty of homosexuality a semi-official newspaper reported on Sunday.<br>
The daily newspaper Kayhan said that the execution was carried out in the northern city of Gorgan. The paper reported the men had been found guilty under Islamic law of lavat, or homosexual sex.<br>
The report identified the men, identified as Mokhtar N., 24, and Ali A., 25. The account claimed the men had "criminal past" that included kidnapping and rape.
(PDF - 351 Kb) Document Date: 14 Nov 2005 (Downloads: 629)
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Iran-Executions: 4 Youths aged 22 to 27 years hanged in public in one week-Foreign Affairs Committee (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Foreign Affairs Committee Of the National Council of Resistance of Iran<br>
92 executions and death sentences in the last four and a half months<br>
State-run media reported that in the past few days the anti-human mullahs? regime in Iran has hanged 4 prisoners in public and handed down 8 death sentences including to one woman prisoner.<br>
Keyhan reported on November 13 the hanging of two youths named Mokhtar (24 years-old) and Ali (25 years-old) on charges of homosexuality in the Bahonar Square of the city of Gorgan. It also reported on November 8 the hanging of another youth named Ahmad Norouzian (22 years-old) in the Khazar Square of Sari city. The state-run daily Iran reported on November 12 that another prisoner named Majid (27 years-old) was hanged.<br>
That brings the number of hangings and death sentences in the last four and a half months ? precisely after Ahmadinejad?s instatement - to at least 92 which show an increase of more than 100 percent compared to the first six months of the year.
(PDF - 919 Kb) Document Date: 14 Nov 2005 (Downloads: 645)
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Algeria 2 SO [90-99] (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Table of contents:<br>
Status of Sexual Minorities<br>
*Articles (Asylum and the Law; "Algerian GIA Killing Gays" from PlanetOut) <br>
*WorldWatch from GayTimes<br>
*"Tchador" from Gaipied<br>
*Opinion from Emile George Howard Joffe<br>
*Encyclopedia of Homosexuality (excerpt) <br>
*ILGA World Legal Survey<br>
(PDF - 2,145 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 1999 (Downloads: 676)
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Argentina: Primera adopcion homoparental en Argentina - 10/20/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
SentidosG Viviana Gianinetto <br> <br> First gay adoption in Argentina
(PDF - 48 Kb) Document Date: 20 Oct 2005 (Downloads: 625)
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Argentina: The 'Final Battle' for Gay and Lesbian Rights - 8/26/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Inter Press Service- Marcela Valente <br> <br> BUENOS AIRES, Aug 26 (IPS) - By drawing the media spotlight to five-year-old twins Lucas and Julia and their two "daddies", the Argentine gay and lesbian community is gearing up to fight for the passage of a bill in Congress that would not only legalise same-sex civil unions, but grant these couples the inheritance and adoption rights normally limited to marriage.
(PDF - 27 Kb) Document Date: 26 Aug 2005 (Downloads: 566)
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Argentina: Una travesti violada por 7 guardacárceles- Pagina12.com -6/22/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A travesti is raped by 7 jail guards.
(PDF - 58 Kb) Document Date: 22 Jun 2005 (Downloads: 580)
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Argentine Court orders partner benefits - Rex Wockner- 10/17/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 20 Kb) Document Date: 17 Oct 2005 (Downloads: 684)
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Argentine Senate recognizes gay relationship- Rex Wokner - 7/25/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Argentina's Senate granted spousal rights to one of its employees who
registered his relationship under Buenos Aires' Civil Union Law, local
media reported July 13.
(PDF - 20 Kb) Document Date: 5 Jul 2005 (Downloads: 721)
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Brazil Asylum- Withholding and CAT- Affidavit- granted case at Davis, Polk & Wardell/ NY, NY- 11/21/2000 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 25 Kb) Document Date: 21 Nov 2000 (Downloads: 647)
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Brazil: Matei porque odio gay - Luiz Mott and Marcelo Cerqueira -Editora Grupo Gay da Bahia, 2003 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Coleção Gaia Ciência Editora Grupo Gay da Bahia<br>1. Aidsfobia: Violação dos Direitos Humanos dos Portadores de HIV/Aids no Brasil (1994)<br>2. As Travestis da Bahia e a Aids (1997)<br>3. Aids e Direito (1998)<br>4. As Religiões Afro-Brasileiras e a luta contra a Aids (1998)<br>5. Candomblés da Bahia: Catálogo de 500 Casas de Culto Afro-Brasileiro (1998)<br>6. Transexualidade: O corpo em mutação (1999)<br>7. Homossexuais da Bahia: Dicionário Biográfico (1999)<br>8. Violação dos Direitos Humanos e Assassinato de Homossexuais no Brasil (2000)<br>9. Guia Gay da Bahia (2000)<br>10. A cena gay de Salvador em tempos de Aids (2000)<br>11. Assassinato de Homossexuais: Manual de Coleta de Informações, Sistematização e Mobilização Política contra Crimes Homofóbicos (2000)<br>12. Causa Mortis: Homofobia (2001)<br>13. O Crime Anti-Homossexual no Brasil (2002)<br>14. Homossexualidade: Mitos e Verdades (2002
(PDF - 1,334 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2003 (Downloads: 1531)
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Burundi 1 HIV [93-97] (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 263 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 1997 (Downloads: 662)
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Burundi 1 SO [93-97] (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 91 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 1997 (Downloads: 638)
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Burundi CU HIV (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 187 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 1998 (Downloads: 669)
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Burundi CU SO (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 503 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 1998 (Downloads: 722)
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Colombia: Comunicado de Prensa-Policia Metropolitana busca acercamiento con travestis de Medellín (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Metropolitan Police looking to dialog with transvestites in Medillin.<br>
(PDF - 134 Kb) Document Date: 26 Oct 2005 (Downloads: 630)
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Iran: UN General Assembly- Third Committee 60th Session- Oct 2005- (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Briefing note on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
(PDF - 224 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2005 (Downloads: 712)
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