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Líder de Comunidad Gay Sampedrana asesinado / Gay community leader murdered- by Redacción: redaccion@laprensa.hn, on 09/02/10: http://www.laprensa.hn/Ediciones/2010/08/31/Noticias/Lider-de-Comunidad-Gay-Sampedrana-asesinado (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Según estadísticas de la Comunidad Gay Sampedrana al menos unos 24 hondureños han sido asesinados de forma violenta desde el 2009. "Estamos como que acostumbrándonos a lo mismo, duele porque (Gensy) era una persona muy cercana a nosotros. Lo que pasa aquí en el país es que las leyes no se cumplen para nadie y para nuestra comunidad es mucho más complicado todavía el asunto".
(PDF - 591 Kb) Document Date: 2 Sep 2010 (Downloads: 0)
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Moscow activists file Euro court case - Rex Wockner International News # 853- 08/30/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Moscow Pride organizers filed suit against Russia in the European Court of
Human Rights on Aug. 23 alleging violations of their right to freedom of
assembly as guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights." <br><br>
"A year ago, gay activists were denied permission to stage pickets against
Moscow Northern District Prefect Oleg Mitvol after he waged a campaign,
ultimately successful, to close down the city's oldest gay bar, Body and
Soul. Russian courts upheld the bans."
(PDF - 23 Kb) Document Date: 30 Aug 2010 (Downloads: 2)
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Morocco: Odissey to America - By Justin Raimondo-06/21/06-http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2006/06/21/odyssey-to-america/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The judge looked like a reasonable man, stern but not cruel ? but the prosecutor! A more perfect portrait of satanic evil could hardly be imagined. Thin as a rail, with that scraggly beard the Islamists wear, eyes buried in shadow beneath Brezhnevian eyebrows, he demanded the maximum sentence for homosexual acts: three years, and a hefty fine. No lawyer appeared on behalf of the defendants. Omar?s shoulders slumped forward as he heard the prosecutor?s demand, and he looked down at the floor. Adil, on the other hand, did not slump, but stood straighter, and looked directly at the source of this threat to his freedom, projecting, with all his might, his utter disdain.
(PDF - 97 Kb) Document Date: 26 Jun 2006 (Downloads: 2)
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Peru: Denuncian que Ministerio de Educación y UNFPA aún consideran la homosexualidad como una "desviación" en contra de opinión de OMS - The Minsitry of Educaiton and The UN Population Foundation are Denounced Since They Still Consider Homosexuality as an "aberration" Contrary to the Opinion of the World Health Organization (WHO), By Blog de Lima Gay, 08/19/10: http://blogdelimagay.blogspot.com/2010/08/denuncian-que-ministerio-de-educacion-y.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"En los términos de referencia de la convocatoria, llama la atención que , entre los contenidos temáticos para educación sexual, se ubica a la homosexualidad como una 'desviación de la expresividad y del comportamiento sexual.' <br><br> "En cuanto al tema específico de la 'homosexualidad', existen tres maneras de abordarla en el ámbito educativo: sancionarla, invisibilizarla o reconocer su existencia sin prejuicios. Los términos de referencia de la guía la silencian a lo largo de los contenidos para colocarla finalmente como 'desviación' y 'problema', cuando la homosexualidad ya no es considerada una patología (enfermedad o desviación) por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), desde hace veinte años."<br><br>
"In terms of reference for the assembly, it is noted that, among the thematic contents for sexual education, one finds homosexuality as an 'aberration of expressiveness and of sexual behavior.'<br><br>
"Regarding the specific topic of 'homosexuality,' there are three ways of approaching it in the educational scope: to sanction it; to make it invisible; or to recognize its existence without prejudice. The terms of reference of the guide silence it in the long run of the contents to finally place it as an "aberration" and "problem," when homosexuality is no longer considered a pathology (illness or aberration) by the World Health Organization (WHO) since twenty years ago."
(PDF - 101 Kb) Document Date: 19 Aug 2010 (Downloads: 2)
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A New Sorrow for Afghanistan: AIDS Joins List - by Carlotta Gall, www.nytimes.com, on 03/19/07: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/world/asia/19afghan.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The few surveys that exist suggest that Afghanistan has a low prevalence of H.I.V. ? only 69 recorded cases, and just three deaths. Yet health officials warn that the incidence is certainly much higher. 'That figure is absolutely unreliable, even dangerous,' said Nilufar Egamberdi, a World Bank consultant on H.I.V./AIDS. The World Health Organization has estimated that 1,000 to 2,000 Afghans are infected, but Ms. Egamberdi said even that was 'not even close to reality.' Dr. Saifur Rehman, director of the National AIDS Control program in the Ministry of Health, agreed. Afghanistan, a deeply religious and conservative country ? sex outside marriage is against the law ? may still be less at risk of the spread of the virus than other places. <br><br>
Stigma is perhaps the most difficult challenge in dealing with H.I.V./AIDS in Afghanistan. The Taliban government, with its stoning and execution of adulterers and homosexuals, may be gone, but sex outside marriage and homosexual sex are still socially unacceptable.
Doctors and health workers here warn that AIDS patients will face ostracism, even death, if their communities learn they are infected. The Ministry of Health closely guards the identity of the few people who have tested H.I.V.-positive. Dr. Muhammad Farid Bazger, H.I.V./AIDS coordinator of the German aid organization ORA International, has seen firsthand the cruelty communities are capable of.
During his work in villages and refugee camps in Pakistan, he came across an unmarried man who had returned from the Arabian Peninsula infected with H.I.V. The man told his father, who, not understanding the consequences, told others. Soon, villagers told the father he should kill his son. The son ended up locked in a brick cell in the family yard, with only a small opening where food was thrown in."
(PDF - 256 Kb) Document Date: 19 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 2)
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Mozambique discovers its gay minority - by www.afrol.com on 11/01/06: http://www.afrol.com/articles/22322 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The issue of homosexuality is being discovered in Mozambique, where the existence of gays is described as 'a reality.' While homosexuality surely is not a matter largely concerning citizens, organisations in defence of the rights of this minority are being established, and politicians do not rule out future legal pro-gay reforms. Still not officially registered, Mozambique new gay rights movement already counts on 15 members from each province. After constituting, the group plans to fight for its grand aim - the end of discrimination against people of a minority sexual orientation in Mozambique. <br><br>
In Mr Silva's view, it is a fact that homosexuals exist in different layers of Mozambican society, although society at large disapproves of homosexual behaviour. This, he believes, is due to conflicts with religious beliefs, masculinity values, reproduction and continuity of family, among others factors. But Mr Silva also holds that Mozambican society is not rejecting so much the sexual orientation of a person as such, but rather the expression of this sexuality, such as sexual act or affection and the establishment of homosexual relationships. Due to pressure from society, he says, most gays live a semi-open or semi-closeted life, keeping their sexual orientation secret."
(PDF - 215 Kb) Document Date: 1 Nov 2006 (Downloads: 2)
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Mozambique: Gay Rights Raised in Mozambican Paper - by www.allafrica.com on 07/04/06: http://allafrica.com/stories/200607040114.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Maputo ? For the first time, a mainstream Mozambican paper has published an article by a prominent Mozambican journalist arguing in favour of gay rights. Previously the question of homosexuality has been largely ignored in the Mozambican media, with the exception of occasional outbursts of homophobic nonsense by christian or moslem clerics."
(PDF - 142 Kb) Document Date: 4 Jul 2006 (Downloads: 2)
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PAKISTAN: Marginalised male sex workers vulnerable to HIV/AIDS - by www.irinnews.org on 09/21/06: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=61708 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Pervaiz is one of the hundreds of male sex workers (MSWs) in Lahore, the teeming capital of the Punjab province, and with a population of 8 million Pakistan's second largest city after Karachi. Beneath its lush trees, and the domes and minarets of the Mughal buildings scattered across its older parts, scores of MSWs operate. Although the precise number of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Lahore is unknown, according to the Pakistan National AIDS Programme, on the basis of findings by international agencies in 2002, they number around 38,000. This number includes male transsexuals or 'hijras', who live in large family groups and have devised their own, unique system of leadership, inter-marriage and complex rituals, and a significant number of masseurs, like Pervaiz, who can be found in many parts of Lahore and other major cities, congregating at selected spots as dusk falls each evening. <br><br>
While such behaviour is strictly illegal, homosexuality is fairly widespread in Pakistan. Under the country's Islamic laws, sodomy carries a penalty of whipping, imprisonment or even death ? but the fact on the ground is that it is also for the large part silently accepted. This uncomfortable compromise means there are strongly entrenched taboos about talking publicly about sex between men, and the result is that levels of awareness about the risk of HIV infection among male sex workers is extremely low. The social marginalisation of communities such as the hijras and the fact that few male sex workers have access to healthcare or contact with awareness-raising programmes, makes them all the more vulnerable."
(PDF - 232 Kb) Document Date: 21 Sep 2006 (Downloads: 2)
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PAKISTAN: Mazhar Anjum, "It's not easy being a hijra in this society" - by www.irinnews.org on 02/17/09: http://www.irinnews.org/HOVReport.aspx?ReportId=82952 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Mazhar Anjum is an HIV-positive transgender (hijra) sex worker and part of an outreach team at an NGO dealing with HIV-positive people in Karachi, the largest metropolis in Pakistan. He told IRIN/PlusNews about the difficulties faced by the transgender community. 'Its not easy being a hijra is this society, but is it our fault that we are like this?' <br><br>
'When the news of my HIV status got out, my chaylas [apprentices] left me and people from my community [transgenders] shunned me ... Now that I am well and financially stable, the people who had shunned me want to be friends. I tell [other hijra sex workers], "Do whatever you want to, but play safe." Sadly, very few of them listen. Their customers/partners force them not to use condoms as they do not find it pleasurable enough. I meet HIV-positive men, women and transgenders who feel helpless and in an emotionally vulnerable state, and when I tell them that I am an HIV-positive person and give them my example, initially they are surprised but eventually they do open up to me.'"
(PDF - 176 Kb) Document Date: 17 Feb 2009 (Downloads: 2)
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UAE: Two accused of using the internet to offer sex - by Awad Mustafa, www.thenational.ae, on 01/13/10: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100114/NATIONAL/701139855 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Two men who allegedly used the internet to offer sexual services appeared separately before the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance yesterday. The first man, MN, is charged with prostitution, consensual homosexual sex, producing pornographic material, cross-dressing and insulting religion. The second, MF, an 18-year-old student, is charged with prostitution.
Homosexuality is illegal in the UAE. Both defendants face a minimum of three years imprisonment and a maximum sentence of 15 years if found guilty."
(PDF - 141 Kb) Document Date: 13 Jan 2010 (Downloads: 2)
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Coming out as a political act in LGBT movement in Turkey- A thesis submitted to the Graduate School of Social Sciences of Middle East Technical University- by Ilay Erterik, 06/30/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"This thesis analyzes the coming out action of individuals through perception of
political identity. Instead of considering coming out as an individual experience, it
is discussed as a political action that effects the others around the individual. This
political action is examined from the Queer Theory?s perspective of subverting the
gender norms. The coming out experience of lesbians, gays and bisexuals not only
has an impact of their personal environment, but also effects their relation to the
LGBT movement." <br.<br>
"The importance of coming out in LGBT movement is explained through the
interviews with lesbians, gays and bisexuals. Where they place themselves
politically in their socialization process is analyzed. LGBT movement?s historical
background is introduced and compared with the movement in Turkey. The issues
originate from Turkish society?s social structure is indicated through interviews."
(PDF - 714 Kb) Document Date: 30 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 3)
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EurasiaNet, Armenia: Gays live with threats of violence, abuse, 30 March 2010, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4bfd3b698b4e.html [accessed 25 August 2010] (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"But gay Armenians are still often the targets of discrimination. Aside from the risk of losing work, homosexuals face becoming social outcasts ? a heavy burden in Armenia's communal, family-centric culture. Some families have been known to emigrate to escape the stigma of having a gay family member. Similar social prejudices prevail in neighboring Georgia and Azerbaijan as well."
(PDF - 224 Kb) Document Date: 30 Mar 2010 (Downloads: 3)
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Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Panama: The situation of homosexuals, including societal attitudes, police treatment and state protection, 14 May 2009, PAN103158.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a7040af23.html [accessed 25 August 2010] (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Information on police treatment of homosexuals was scarce among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate. However, a 2008 Global Rights report on LGBT persons in Panama states that the AHMNP received reports that the Panamanian police had assaulted an LGBT person (ibid., 6). Moreover, the Global Rights report notes that LGBT persons are not inclined to inform police of abuse (ibid., 6, 7). Global Rights states that the AHMNP also reports that transgender individuals have been targeted by police, physically abused and have been arrested because they "have altered their appearance in violation of the law" (ibid., 7)."
(PDF - 254 Kb) Document Date: 14 May 2009 (Downloads: 3)
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Mauritania 2009 Human Rights Report: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/af/135965.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Under Shari'a homosexual acts between males are punishable by death if witnessed by four individuals; however, there was no evidence of either societal violence or systematic government discrimination based on sexual orientation, and there were no criminal prosecutions during the year. There were no organizations advocating for sexual orientation or gender-identity rights, but there were no legal impediments to the operation of such groups."
(PDF - 228 Kb) Document Date: 11 Mar 2010 (Downloads: 3)
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JAMAICA: Dispatches from Kingston, Jamaica. Three Days in One of the Most Homophobic Places on Earth - by Matt Mills on www.xtra.ca on 05/12/08: http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=1&STORY_ID=4763&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=9 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY
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In this class-stratified city, Kingston's various rough neighbourhoods are the childhood homes of dancehall musicians, heroes of the ghettos, some of whose lyrics call for and glorify the murder of batty men (Jamaican patois for "bottom men").
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We pass an intersection where, with no cover from the midday sun, a handsome young black man hawks newspapers to passersby. He makes me think of Brian Williamson. Williamson was a co founder of the Jamaica Forum for All-sexuals and Gays (JFLAG). He was Jamaican, a well-heeled white man and an outspoken activist for gay rights in a city that some have dubbed the most homophobic place on earth. Buggery - sex between men - is still punishable by up to 10 years in a Jamaican prison. And what happened to Williamson is just one of countless horror stories involving gay men in Jamaica.
(PDF - 156 Kb) Document Date: 12 May 2008 (Downloads: 3)
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MALAYSIA: Last Refugee Bid Refused to Gay Malaysian - www.cbc.ca on 03/05/08: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/03/05/qc-malay0305.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>
A Malaysian man who is to be deported Thursday after being refused refugee status is pleading with the federal government to intervene and let him stay in Canada. <br><br>
Kulenthiran Amirthalingan made a last-ditch appeal to Immigration Minister Diane Finley, asking her to stay the March 6 deportation order to his native Malaysia. He fears persecution because he is gay.
(PDF - 90 Kb) Document Date: 5 Mar 2008 (Downloads: 3)
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Malaysia: Treatment of Sexual Minorities - by Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada on www.unhcr.org on 08/30/05: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,IRBC,,MYS,45f148012,0.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br>
Sex between men is illegal in Malaysia. While not explicitly making reference to
homosexuality, Section 377 of the Malaysian Penal Code punishes "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" by whipping and imprisonment for a maximum of 20 years. Article 377A of the Malaysian Penal Code considers male-receptive oral sex and anal intercourse to fall under the category of "carnal intercourse against the order of nature."
(PDF - 125 Kb) Document Date: 30 Aug 2005 (Downloads: 3)
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Nicaragua:?Ser homosexual no es fa?cil? Las heridas fi?sicas y psicolo?gicas que Jefferson Ortiz sufrio? al ser mancillado dentro de una celda de la Estacio?n de Polici?a de Altagracia, en la Isla de Ometepe, no han sanado, pero gracias al apoyo que ha recibido de la sociedad civil, recupero? la confianza en el futuro y suen?a con estudiar enfermeri?a- (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Ortiz no sabe si se va a poder liberar algún día de las cicatrices físicas y psicológicas que la violación le dejó, las que le impiden darle la cara a la gente, pero desde el cuarto en el que se encuentra encerrado se animó a contestar algunas preguntas por escrito. <br><br>
Asegura que el trauma que le dejó la violación de la cual fue víctima la madrugada del once de julio lo ha enfrentado con ayuda de Dios y de su familia.<br><br>Apuntó que lo más triste de ese bochornoso capítulo criticado a nivel nacional e internacional, fue pedir auxilio dentro de la misma institución policial, ?que tiene por lema honor, seguridad y respeto, y no encontrarlo, pese a mis gritos?.<br><br>
Ortiz doesn't know if he is going to free himself some day of the physical and psychological scars which the rape has left him with, the very same scars which hinder him from facing people, but from the room in which he is enclosed, he was encouraged to answer written questions.<br><br>
He assures that he has confronted the trauma which the rape of which he was a victim in the early morning of July 11 left him with the help of God and his family.<br><br>
He pointed out that the saddest part of this shameful chapter judged at a national and international level, was to ask for help within the very same police institution, "which has as a motto of honor, security and respect, and to not find it, in spite of my screams?"
(PDF - 69 Kb) Document Date: 21 Aug 2010 (Downloads: 3)
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Turkey: HIV positive people need not hide-By Turkish Daily News-05/11/07/-http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/h.php?news=turkish-press-scanner-2007-05-11 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Cenk, a 32 year old man who is HIV-positive says, ?Horrible things happen at the work place, There are those that have their bags searched, medical reports and medicines examined, and their secrets betrayed. There are those that cannot acquire their medicine because they are civil servants and if the medication is written down end up losing their jobs.?
(PDF - 128 Kb) Document Date: 11 May 2007 (Downloads: 3)
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Cuba 2 articles: Detenido líder de organización gay independiente/ The leader of an independent gay organization is detained 08/18/10 and Confisca la policía carné de identidad a Aliomar Janjaque/ Police confiscates ID card of Aliomar Janjaque 08/19/10, by Mario José Delgado González, on www.cubanet.org: http://cubanet.org/CNews/year2010/agosto2010/18_N_2.html / http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/year2010/agosto2010/19_N_1.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
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Janjaque relató que se encontraba en el municipio Cerro, de esta ciudad, cuando un agente de la policía le pidió que se identificara mostrando el carné de identidad. Inmediatamente, el oficial llamó un auto patrullero en el que llegaron dos oficiales de la policía. Janjaque no fue trasladado a una Estación de Policía, sino que fue llevado en el patrullero directamente a Villa Maristas. <br><br>
Janjaque told how he was in the area of Cerro, in this city, when a police agent asked him to identify himself, showing his ID card. Immediately, the official called for a patrol car in which two police officials arrived. Janjaque wasn't taken to a Police Station, but they took him in the patrol directly to Villa Maristas. (Villa Marista is a prison in Havana, Cuba, notorious for its detention of political prisoners by the Cuban national security agency.)<br><br>
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Al respecto, Janjaque dijo a este reportero: -Uno de ellos me dijo ?contrarrevolucionario de mierda? y otro, ?yegua contrarrevolucionaria? . Me dijeron además que me retiraban el carne para que no pudiera salir más a la calle y que además estaba circulado por la PNR (Policía Nacional Revolucionaria) provincial. También me dijeron que no iban a permitir la realización del concurso Mr. Gay 2010, ?costase lo que costase?.<br><br>
Respectively, Janjaque said to this reporter: One of them called me "counterrevolutionary shit" and another, "counterrevolutionary bitch." They also told me that they were taking my ID away so that I wouldn't be able to go out in the street anymore and that I was surrounded by the provincial PNR (National Revolutionary Police). They also told me that they wouldn't permit the production of the Mr. Gay 2010 Contest, "no matter what the cost."
(PDF - 92 Kb) Document Date: 18 Aug 2010 (Downloads: 3)
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