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Maldives: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Universal Periodic Review - Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - ARC International 11/03/10: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: decriminalize sexual activity between consenting adults of the same sex.
(PDF - 120 Kb) Document Date: 3 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 93)
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Mauritania: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Universal Periodic Review - Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - ARC International 11/10/10: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: ensure that the death penalty not be applied to same-sex activity between consenting adults, and that the Penal Code not be applied to criminalize such activity.
(PDF - 120 Kb) Document Date: 10 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 94)
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Mongolia: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Universal Periodic Review - Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - ARC International 11/02/10: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: address violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, include these grounds in antidiscrimination legislation and programmes, develop public
education and police sensitivity programmes, extend protections from sexual and domestic violence, and apply the Yogyakarta Principles as a guide to policy-making.
(PDF - 137 Kb) Document Date: 2 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 85)
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Panama: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Universal Periodic Review - Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - ARC International 11/02/10: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: suggest joining the GA joint statement, include sexual orientation and gender identity in antidiscrimination legislation, ensure needs of marginalised groups are addressed in HIV programs, and apply the Yogyakarta Principles.
(PDF - 121 Kb) Document Date: 2 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 99)
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Arrest gays, Kenyan PM orders- BY BERNARD MOMANYI, www.capitalfm.co.ke, 11/28/10: http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/Kenyanews/Arrest-gays,-Kenyan-PM-orders-10670.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 28 - Prime Minister Raila Odinga has ordered a nationwide crackdown on homosexuals in Kenya." <br><br> Mr Odinga on Sunday said that police should arrest anyone found engaging in such behaviours and take appropriate legal action against them. <br><br>
?We will not tolerate such behaviours in the country. The constitution is very clear on this issue and men or women found engaging in homosexuality will not be spared,? Mr Odinga said.
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?Any man found engaging in sexual activities with another man should be arrested. Even women found engaging in sexual activities will be arrested,?
(PDF - 80 Kb) Document Date: 28 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 89)
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El Salvador: LGBT communities face danger in developing countries- By Michelle Conerly, www.su-spectator.com, 11/03/10: http://www.asylumlaw.org/legal_tools/index.cfm?category=385&countryID=233&&CFID=10179284&CFTOKEN=38298638 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Hernández believes that many transgender and homosexual women are targeted by vigilantes and police. Cover-ups and misreported killings of these women are what Hernandez calls "femicide," resembling the same practices of the death squads during the civil war. <br><br>
"This isn't just to kill that person," Hernández said. "It's to make that person disappear."
(PDF - 83 Kb) Document Date: 3 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 90)
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Mexican LGBT activist flees to US, seeking asylum Source: El Universal, http://madikazemi.blogspot.com, on 11/06/10: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2010/11/mexican-lgbt-activist-flees-to-us.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The professor, who claims to suffer persecution by state authorities of Mexico and some people in the community of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, which houses the schools for children with disabilities, only publicly declared homosexual, was violated September 15 by a group of strangers in a house where he hid. <br><br>
Estrada said Negrete increased death threats against him, his mother and sister after he denounced discrimination only the local government embarked on their sexual preference. <br><br> For lack of official support, the mentor left Mexico a few days ago to protect his life because he suffered two bouts of violence in recent weeks.
(PDF - 480 Kb) Document Date: 6 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 95)
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Mexico: En un año, van 16 travestis asesinados en Chihuahua-Activista señaló que en Cd. Juárez se está pidiendo una cuota de mil pesos a chicas transgénero quienes trabajan y ven coartada su seguridad personal ya que si no hacen la "aportación", son amenazadas de muerte. / In a year, there have been 16 transgender persons murdered in Chihuahua - An activist noted that in the city of Juarez, a fee of a thousand pesos is being asked of the transgender girls, that work and have their personal safety at risk, because if they do not pay the ?fee?, they are threatened to death - by Redacción Anodis, on 11/22/10: http://anodis.com/imprimir.asp?id=17228 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Chihuahua, Chihuahua.- Al alarmante asesinato de dos homosexuales en menos de 24 horas en esta capital, se suman en total 16 muertes violentadas a personas con orientación sexual diferente que se han registrado en Juárez con 4 muertos, un en Cuauhtémoc y 11 en esta ciudad, afirmó Mercedes Fernández, representante de la comunidad Lésbico-Gay en el estado. <br><br> Calificó esta situación de "difícil y lamentable, pero más lamentable la reacción de la autoridad que se mantiene apática de lo que vivimos", comentó que recientemente fue llevado un documento a la Secretaría General de Gobierno que encabeza Graciela Ortiz, para solicitar el desahogo de investigaciones en las muertes de homosexuales, sin embargo, no se ha tenido respuesta.<br><br>
Chihuahua, Chihuahua- An alarming murder of two homosexuals in less than 24 hours in this capital, now a total of 16 violent murders of people with a different sexual orientation which have been registered in Juarez with 4 deaths, one in Cuauhtémoc and 11 in this city, stated Mercedes Fernández, a representative of the Lesbian-Gay community in the state.<br><br>
She described the situation as "difficult and regrettable, but the reaction of the authorities is even more regrettable as they remain apathetic as to what we must put up with" as was recently commented in a document given to the General Secretary of the government which is led by Graciela Ortiz, in order to seek the completion of investigations in the homosexual murders, even though there has been no response.
(PDF - 73 Kb) Document Date: 22 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 84)
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Mexico: Piden cesen los crímenes en contra de personas con preferencias sexuales diferentes- Demand for an end to crimes against people with different sexual preferences- by uniradioinforma.com on 11/15/10: http://uniradioinforma.com/noticias/articulo29843.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Full translation of article included <br><br>La muerte de un transexual en Mexicali y la de unos trabajadores en Ensenada fue motivo para encabezar la manifestación, indicó el Presidente del fondo para la asistencia contra el SIDA Lorenzo Herrera. <br><br> Indicó que en los últimos cuatro meses, en Baja California se han registrado cinco casos de crímenes de odio contra personas de preferencias sexuales diferentes, esto sin tomar en cuenta aquellos que no se denuncian. <br><br> The death of a transgender in Mexicali and that of some workers in Ensenada was the reason to head the demostration, said the President of the Fund for Assistance Against AIDS, Lorenzo Herrera. <br><br> He indicated that in the last four months, in Baja California we have registered five cases of hate crimes against people with different sexual preferences, this without taking into account those which are not reported.
(PDF - 180 Kb) Document Date: 15 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 96)
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Muslims protest for sexual rights in 12 nations - Rex Rockner International News # 864 on 11/15/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Rising conservatism fueled by militarism, increasing inequalities, the
politicization of religion and Islamophobia have strengthened patriarchal
and extremist religious ideologies that use sexuality as a tool of
oppression," organizers said. "This has manifested itself in various forms
over the last year, be it the revocation of the permit for the regional
Asia Conference of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
and Intersex Association by the police in Indonesia, or the harassment of
conference participants by radical Islamic groups, or political pressure
on a women's group promoting women's rights in Islam in Malaysia, or women
like Sakineh Ashtiani being sentenced to death by stoning in Iran, or
killings of hundreds of women and transsexuals in Turkey under the pretext
of honor."
(PDF - 24 Kb) Document Date: 15 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 91)
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Nuevo asesinato de un activista LGTB y opositor al régimen de Honduras / New murder of an LGBT activist and oponent of the Honduras regim - by dosmanzanas.com on 09/28/10: http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2010/09/nuevo-asesinato-de-un-activista-lgtb-y-opositor-al-regimen-de-honduras.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Full translation of article Translation by Jack Siebert, NIJC/SF volunteer<br><br>
"Continúa la sangría en Honduras ante la pasividad internacional. Ahora le ha tocado el turno a Wilmer García Alvarado, joven activista LGTB y voluntario de la organización Foro Nacional de Juventud, que ha sido asesinado en el municipio de San Pedro Sula.
Desgraciadamente, y a pesar de su creciente reconocimiento, el Gobierno de Lobo no parece estar muy interesado en aclarar asesinatos como los de Walter Tróchez, que siguen impunes.
A lo largo de las últimas semanas, en dosmanzanas nos habíamos hecho eco de nuevos episodios de violencia, como el asesinato de una mujer transexual también en San Pedro Sula o el de un testigo de un juicio contra un policía acusado del acuchillamiento de otra mujer transexual."
The blood-letting continues in Honduras in the presence of international passivity. Now it has been the turn of Wilmer García Alvarado, an LGBT youth activist and volunteer for the organization National Youth Forum , who was murdered in the town of San Pedro Sula.
Unfortunately, and in spite of its growing recognition, the government of Lobo does not appear to be very interested in solving murders such as that of Walter Tróchez, which go unpunished.
Throughout the past weeks, we have heard rumors of new episodes of violence, such as the murder of a transsexual women also in San Pedro Sula or that of a witness in the case against a policeman accused of the stabbing of another transsexual woman.
New murder of an LGBT activist and opponent of the Honduran regime
(PDF - 163 Kb) Document Date: 28 Sep 2010 (Downloads: 92)
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Pink Life: Trans Remembrance Meeting in Ankara, Turkey - by IGLHRC on 11/17/2010: http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/takeaction/partners/1258.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
We, trans individuals are subjected to hate murders. Hate speech in media continues to exist intensively. Police continues to use transphobic violence against trans individuals. Judicial authorities reward our murderers with sentence decreases. Law-makers and decision-makers ignore us and our democratic demands. Transphobic hatred and discrimination are widespread in areas like education, health, employment and access to services. Our freedom of movement is prevented, our freedom of expression is limited and we are faced by social pressure, social exclusion and violence. In short, we are being "hated" just because of our existence!
(PDF - 184 Kb) Document Date: 17 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 89)
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Transgender Europe's Trans Murder Monitoring project reveals almost 180 killings of trans people in the last 12 months In total, since January 2008 the murders of 487 trans people have been reported- by Dr Carsten Balzer and Dr Jan Simon Hutta -research[at]transrespect-transphobia.org, on 11/19/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The TDOR 2010 update has revealed a total of 179 cases of reported killings of trans people from November 20th 2009 to November 19th 2010. The update shows reports of murdered or killed trans people in 19 countries in the last year, with the majority from Brazil (91), Guatemala (15), Mexico (14), and the USA (14). <br><br>
Cases have been reported from all six major World regions: Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Europe, North America, and Oceania. As in the previous years, most reported cases were from Central and South America, which account for 80 % of the globally reported homicides of trans people since January 2008. In 2008, 97 killings were reported in 13 Central and South American countries, in 2009, 136 killings in 15 Central and South American Countries, and in 2010 so far 122 killings in 12 Central and South American Countries. The starkest increase in reports is also to be found in Central and South America, e.g. in Brazil (2008: 59, 2009: 68, January-November 2010: 74), Guatemala (2008: 1, 2009: 13, January-November 2010: 14) and Mexico (2008: 4, 2009: 11, January-November 2010: 12). The data also show an alarming increase in reported murders in Turkey in the previous years (2008: 2, 2009: 5, January to November 2010: 6).
(PDF - 96 Kb) Document Date: 19 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 90)
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Honduras: Reconciling a ?Culture of Non-Violence? and Transphobia - by Gender Across Borders, on02/06/10: http://www.genderacrossborders.com/2009/06/02/honduras-reconciling-a-culture-of-non-violence-and-transphobia/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
While Honduran authorities have been prompt in signing international agreements pledging to curb violence and protect vulnerable groups, attacks on transgender people ? often targeted because their looks and demeanor challenge prevailing sex-role stereotypes ? continue to be commonplace in the country. <br><br>
The Advocate has more:<br>
Trans activist Cynthia Nicole was shot in January, and most recently two unidentified men assaulted Barbara Paola, an outreach worker for an LGBT organization in Tegucigalpa. Joshua, 19, told the organization that police punched her in the face, beat her with a baton, and broke a broomstick against her back before throwing her into jail. Other reports show that police stand by while trans people are attacked in the streets.
<br><br>However, when confronted on such abuses, officers refer to vague language in the Law on Police and Social Affairs to protect morality and guard against ?public scandal? and those ?who go against modesty? to justify their actions or inaction. Similar policies in other Latin American countries like Colombia have been stopped after courts deemed them too broad.
(PDF - 191 Kb) Document Date: 6 Feb 2009 (Downloads: 89)
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Transgender Woman Beaten By Police and Threatened With Murder in Honduras - by CARA , http://www.feministe.us, on 2.10.2009: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/02/10/transgender-woman-beaten-by-police-and-threatened-with-murder-in-honduras/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
From Amnesty International UK comes the story of a woman, transgender sex worker and HIV/AIDS campaigner (unnamed for her own safety) in Honduras, who was assaulted by police officers and threatened with death if she spoke out about the attack: <br><br>
Four police officers in a police car approached the transgender woman, who has asked Amnesty International to withhold her name, at about 12.40am on 20 December 2008 in the Palmira district of the capital, Tegucigalpa. She was working as a sex worker at the time. The police officers tried to rob her but, when she resisted, they grabbed her by the hair and repeatedly smashed her head against a nearby window, breaking the glass. She received numerous cuts to her face and knees.
(PDF - 290 Kb) Document Date: 10 Feb 2009 (Downloads: 84)
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Según Informe: Policías Son Los Principales Agresores De La Comunidad Lésbico-Gay En Honduras / According to report: The main aggressors of the Gay/Leabian community in Honduras is the Police- Written by Eleana Borjas - by www.revistazo.biz, Monday, 15 November 2010:http://www.revistazo.biz/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1564:segun-informe-policias-son-los-principales-agresores-de-la-comunidad-lesbico-gay-en-honduras&catid=19:proyectos&Itemid=19 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Honduras es un país con altos niveles de homofobia y Transfobia. Los principales reproductores de ese odio en el país, según los organismos defensores de gays y lesbianas son la familia, las escuelas, la prensa y la iglesia. <br><br>
Pero ese odio ha traído consecuencias. El Informe Preliminar sobre Crímenes de Odio contra las personas LGTB en Honduras, realizado por el Centro de Promoción de los Derechos Humanos ?CIRPODEH- y el Movimiento Arcoíris de Honduras, revela que entre los años 2005 y 2009 se han registrado 171 crímenes de odio hacia homosexuales a nivel nacional.
El estudio deja ver que los principales autores de los crímenes hacia la comunidad LGTB en Honduras, son la Policía, los clientes de las trabajadoras sexuales y la violencia familiar por no aceptar las orientaciones sexuales de sus parientes. <br><br>
Según el informe, la policía encabeza los crímenes hacia la comunidad LGTB, acosándolos constantemente con detenciones ilegales acompañadas de golpes y otras formas de abuso. Del 2005 al 2009 se registraron 50 detenciones ilegales en las cuales los policías violaron sexualmente a la persona por su orientación sexual. <br><br>
Este tipo de ataques hacia lo comunidad LGTB es más grave en San Pedro Sula ya que la policía de esa ciudad mantiene celdas clandestinas en su vieja sede, dónde cometen los abusos, indicaron.
(PDF - 178 Kb) Document Date: 15 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 99)
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South Africa: "Lesbian Lives Unlimited" - A REPORT FROM THE STUDY "THE PSYCHO-SOCIAL- SEXUAL EXPERIENCES OF LESBIAN WOMEN IN TSHWANE (PRETORIA): A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS" - by Delene van Dyk, 11/12/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Introduction <br><br>
The aim of the research was to understand the lived lives of lesbian identified woman in
Tshwane (Pretoria). The idea was to investigate their psychosocial and sexual histories
through in depth qualitative interviews. Most funded research projects exclude lesbian,
bisexual and transgendered women, since the focus is mainly on MSM. This translates
into a lack of appropriate service provision to lesbian identified woman. The health,
specifically sexual health issues of lesbian women, is often completely ignored,
especially when it comes to HIV issues.
(PDF - 582 Kb) Document Date: 16 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 101)
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Ecuador: Brutal crimen de dos mujeres transexuales en Ecuador, a golpes en la cabeza y navajazos-Brutal crime fo two female transexuals in Ecuador, blows to the head and knife wounds-By Organizacion de Transexuales por la Dignidad de la Diversidad-10/29/10-http://transexualesdechile.org/?p=2811 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Las víctimas pertenecían a la Red transgénero de El Oro, liderada por Karen Paz. Ambas tenían el cráneo destrozado a golpes con un objeto contundente (combo), cortes de arma blanca en el cuerpo y, además, estaban maniatadas.<br><br>Los cadáveres de Débora Durán Correa y Johanna Pinzón, foto superior, fueron encontrados en un domicilio del barrio Abdón Calderón, de Machala.<br>====================================================<br><br>
The victims belonged to the Transgender Network of Gold, led by Karen Paz. Both had their skulls smashed with a blunt object (sledgehammer), cuts from a sharp instrument on the body and, also, they were shackled.<br><br>
The bodies of Débora Durán Correa and Johanna Pinzón, top photo, were found in a home in the Abdón Calderón neighborhood, of Machala.
(PDF - 451 Kb) Document Date: 29 Oct 2010 (Downloads: 100)
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In Post-Earthquake Haiti, Activists Fight Violence Based on Gender and Sexuality - by Nathalie Margi, ,on 11/14/10: http://observers.france24.com/content/20101114-post-earthquake-haiti-activists-fight-violence-based-gender-sexuality (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"On the day of the earthquake, passersby beat a transgender woman who was trapped under the rubble when they discovered her gender identity. In July, police and community members assaulted SEROvie volunteers and staff while they were organizing awareness-raising sessions about sexual orientation. Their tents were burned and two of them were hospitalized. In August, eight men violently attacked and gang raped a young lesbian. ?Now I know not to take that street on my way home,? she said, angry but resigned. " <br><br> Mr. Gédéon, Port-au-Prince Police Commissioner, has started a campaign of arbitrary arrests, detention and harassment to punish sexual behaviors he deems unacceptable in order to ?save Haitian society.? <br><br>
In early September, the police arrested 18 gay and bisexual men and held them in custody for three days for ?disrupting public order? while they were having a party. On September 13th, 40 women were arrested in the Champs de Mars camp for ?practicing ?woman on woman? activities in tents,? according to the local television station Télé Eclair.
(PDF - 258 Kb) Document Date: 14 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 87)
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Nicaragua: Donde todavia la homosexualidad es un delito-Where homosexuality is still a crime-By Amnistia Internacional-07/13/05-http://www.es.amnesty.org/actua/acciones/nicaragua-jun05/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Nicaragua es, tras las reformas llevadas a cabo durante los últimos años en otros países de la región, el único país democrático de América Latina cuya legislación castiga las relaciones homosexuales consentidas entre adultos.<br><br>
Nicaragua is, behind reforms carried out during the last few years in other countries in the region, the only democratic country in Latin America whose legislation punishes homosexual relations between consenting adults.
(PDF - 105 Kb) Document Date: 13 Jul 2005 (Downloads: 88)
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