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Bolivia: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ? UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: Commend explicit inclusion of sexual orientation in the Constitution, and frank assessment of challenges to realizing these rights. Recommendations include antidiscrimination initiatives, public education programs, fulfillment of State commitment to same-sex relationship recognition and use of the Yogyakarta Principles.
(PDF - 110 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 177)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ? UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: adopt antidiscrimination law, include sexual orientation and gender identity throughout antidiscrimination and equality initiatives, and take steps to combat hate crimes.
(PDF - 107 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 204)
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Egypt: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ? UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: individuals have been arrested, charged with the ?habitual practice of debauchery?, and subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment on the basis of actual or presumed consensual same-sex conduct and/or HIV status. Recommend that these provisions not be interpreted or applied to criminalise same-sex conduct or HIV status, and training programs for relevant authorities.
(PDF - 102 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 137)
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El Salvador: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ? UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: need for legislative and educational measures to address the significant incidence of violence targeting individuals because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
(PDF - 94 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 208)
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Fiji: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ? UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: Welcome prohibition of discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation in the Constitution, and recommend application of the Yogyakarta Principles to help ensure realisation of these rights.
(PDF - 88 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 207)
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Gambia: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: recommend decriminalization of homosexuality, and action to combat violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity (particularly in view of comments by the Gambian President threatening homosexuals with expulsion from the country or beheading).
(PDF - 100 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 184)
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Gender inequality and corrective rape of women who have sex with women - by Alexa Mieses, GMHC on 12/30/09: www.poz.com/pdfs/gmhc_treatmentissues_2009_12.pdf (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"At least 31 lesbians have been murdered in South Africa since 1998." <br><br> "Some WSW are sexually punished by local men for being gay." <br><br> "Globally, MSM are on average 19 times
more likely to be infected with HIV
than the general population."
(PDF - 124 Kb) Document Date: 30 Dec 2009 (Downloads: 156)
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Iran: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: decriminalize sexual activity between consenting adults, and eliminate penalties of flogging and death.
(PDF - 98 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 222)
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Iraq: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: implement measures to address extrajudicial killings of persons on the basis of their actual or presumed sexual orientation.
(PDF - 88 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 158)
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Is Qwelane good for Uganda? There must be a better ambassador for SA, write Liesl Gerntholtz and Dipika Nath - by www.timeslive.co.za on 01/26/10: http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/article278746.ece (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"And even South Africa is now showing worrying signs that the values expressed in its constitution are under threat when it comes to the rights of lesbians and gays." <br><br>
In April, President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi signed legislation criminalising consensual homosexual conduct, despite the Burundian senate's overwhelming rejection of the bill.<br><br>
In August, Senegalese Prime Minister Soulayemane Ndene Ndiaye deplored the "proliferation of homosexuality" in Senegal and invited religious leaders and all believers to fight it.<br><br>
In May 2008, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh threatened to "cut off the head" of any homosexual in his country. <br><br>
None of these leaders seems to understand that homosexuality has always been part of African society, as it has everywhere else. It was just less visible and tolerated in Africa
(PDF - 166 Kb) Document Date: 26 Jan 2010 (Downloads: 199)
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Kazakhstan: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: absence of anti-discrimination legislation on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, and need to ensure that stigma associated with sexual orientation and gender identity be addressed at the levels of both State and society.
(PDF - 98 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 176)
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LGBT rights in Moldova- Wikipedia- This page was last modified on 16 January 2010 at 20:57 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Moldova#Former_laws_against_homosexuality (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Moldova may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, it has become increasingly under the influence of the Orthodox Christian church, also, it has been marred by human rights violations against the freedom of association for homosexuals to have Gay Pride demonstrations."
(PDF - 299 Kb) Document Date: 16 Jan 2010 (Downloads: 199)
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Nicaragua: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ? UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: commend recent decriminalization of homosexuality, and recommend inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity in antidiscrimination legislation and programmes.
(PDF - 98 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 194)
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Qatar: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr,org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: decriminalize sexual activity between consenting adults, and eliminate penalties of flogging and death.
(PDF - 83 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 202)
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Slovenia: Suggested Recommendations on Human Rights Issues Related To Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ? UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review-Seventh Session (8-19 February 2010)-By ARC-02/19/10-http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Documentation.aspx. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Key Issues/Recommendations: Slovenia has made significant progress on the rights of LGBT individuals, but greater consistency required to ensure equal treatment of same-sex relationships. Further steps to address hate speech and promote respect for marginalised groups also required.
(PDF - 115 Kb) Document Date: 19 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 191)
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El Salvador: Gay Man Denied claim as refugee-By The Star.com-04/14/08-http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/414212 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Joaquin Ramirez is afraid to be sent home to his native El Salvador and face the three police officers that he claims raped him in a sugarcane field two years ago.<br>The 39-year-old HIV-positive man said the accused perpetrators have visited his family and threatened to kill him because he infected them with the virus that causes AIDS.<br>But the story of Ramirez, a closeted gay man, hasn't impressed Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board or a border service removal officer, who asked why he didn't ask authorities back home for protection.<br>"I didn't tell anyone that I was raped because I was too ashamed of myself. I didn't tell the police. I didn't tell the people in the hospital. I didn't tell my own family," explained the soft-spoken man, who took advantage of the 2006 HIV/AIDS conference in Toronto as a way out.
(PDF - 138 Kb) Document Date: 14 Nov 2008 (Downloads: 227)
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Guatemala: Asesinan y Hieren a personal de OASIS: Grupo GLBT Guatemala-/ OASIS personnel is killed and injured: LGBT Guatemala group - 01/25/06-By Victoria Neilson-http://www.aguabuena.org/articulos/guatemala200601.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> El pasado 17 de Diciembre en Guatemala ocurrió un violento hecho en contra de dos profesionales del sexo travestidas: Sulma y Paulina fueron atacadas por cuatro hombres, a quienes testigos identificaron como uniformados de policía. Para Sulma se encuentra actualmente hospitalizada de mucha gravedad pues recibió tres disparos en la cabeza. Paulina, quien recibió dos disparos, murió minutos después del ataque.<br>Este terrible hecho asciende a al menos siete profesionales del sexo que fueron sido asesinadas en Guatemala durante el 2005. Además nos hace recordar el horrible asesinato del activista en VIH/SIDA Steve Harvey en Jamaica en la víspera del pasado 1° de Diciembre, Día Internacional del SIDA.
(PDF - 159 Kb) Document Date: 25 Jan 2006 (Downloads: 202)
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Homosexuality in Lebanon: a short book against prejudjement - By Amélie Rousseau on http://www.iloubnan.info, 11/04/09: http://www.iloubnan.info/socials/actualite/id/39720/titre/Homosexuality-in-Lebanon:-a-short-book-against-prejudjement (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Dr. Maha Rabbat has just published "Homosexuality / Bisexuality: Myths and Facts", a book for the general public fighting against prejudice often experienced by homosexuals in the Lebanese society. <br><br> "These "myths" as she calls them, "maintain homophobia within the Lebanese society at a very high level. They can turn the life of the Lebanese gays and lesbians a living hell.?
(PDF - 396 Kb) Document Date: 4 Nov 2009 (Downloads: 148)
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Malawi unfazed by int'l criticism of gay arrests- Rex Wockner International News # 822- on 01/25/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Malawi's Information Ministry said Jan. 18 that international pressure
will not dissuade the nation from prosecuting a gay couple for having a
public engagement ceremony." <br><br> "The couple remain jailed pending resumption of their trial, which began
Jan. 15 but was quickly adjourned after Chimbalanga, who reportedly has
malaria, vomited and collapsed. He was later forced to get a mop and
bucket and clean up the mess."
(PDF - 35 Kb) Document Date: 25 Jan 2010 (Downloads: 198)
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Malawi: Letter to Hon. Arthur Peter Mutharika Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs re: The arrests and prosecution of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga.- by Martin O. Masiga, Senior Legal Advisor, INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS - on 01/13/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"I am writing to you on behalf of the International Commission of Jurists to
express our serious concern about the arrests of Steven Monjeza and
Tiwonge Chimbalanga on December 28, 2009, at their home in Chirimba
Township outside Blantyre. The two had participated in a traditional
engagement ceremony. They have now been charged with ?unnatural
offences? and ?gross indecency? under Sections 153 and 156 of the Penal
Code and are being held without bail at Chichiri Prison. Section 153
imposes a maximum sentence of fourteen years in prison. Section 156
imposes a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Reports indicate that
both men have been forced to undergo anal exams at Queen Elizabeth
Central Hospital. "
(PDF - 143 Kb) Document Date: 13 Jan 2010 (Downloads: 187)
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