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Cuba: Cuba Fights AIDS Its own Way-By Anne-christine d'Adesky-01/30/03-http://www.thebody.com/content/art32967.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> From 1986 to 1993, Santiago de las Vegas epitomized the country's much criticized quarantine that kept people with HIV apart from the general public. Forced quarantine ended in 1993, but the government retains an aggressive public health approach to controlling HIV. The sanatorium model reflects an emphasis on preventive care over acute care and on early diagnosis and quick treatment of infectious diseases like tuberculosis. Cuban officials take pride in the sanatoriums, crediting them with keeping HIV prevalence under 0.1% of adults between 15 and 49 years old. That is one of the lowest incidences in the world and ten to 60 fold below that of Cuba's Caribbean neighbors. By official count, Cuba has about 3,200 cases of HIV, almost entirely in gay and bisexual men.
(PDF - 21 Kb) Document Date: 30 Jan 2003 (Downloads: 145)
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Cuba: Despiden a dos Jovenes por Homosexualidad-Two youths are fired for being homosexuals-By Cubanet.org-01/02/06-http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y06/jan06/03a4.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Dos jóvenes que se encontraban laborando en la fábrica de tabacos Hilda Torres Bacallao fueron expulsados por ser homosexuales.<br>El administrador de la fábrica, Argelio Rojas Salermo, manifestó a uno de los expulsados que aunque mantenía buena conducta y actitud ante el trabajo no podían continuar porque eran homosexuales, y agregó que esta fábrica es visitada por diferentes personalidades que no debían llevarse tal opinión de la entidad.
(PDF - 37 Kb) Document Date: 2 Jan 2006 (Downloads: 239)
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Cuba: The Lost Sheep-30/12/07-By Michael J. Maher-http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2007/2007-13.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> [2] Like most Communist countries, Cuba has actively sought to repress religion. Religious persons have been seen as a type of ?enemy of the state? in Cuba. While this position has lightened in Cuba in recent years, decades of repression still have an effect on the culture. Like religious persons, gay and lesbian people in Cuba have also experienced systematic repression in Cuba for decades, also with some recent lightening of these policies. Do these two groups, which have a similar history of repression in Cuba, have enough in common to support each other in some ways? What is the experience of people who belong to both groups?<br>[3] The focus of this study was a preliminary look at the experiences of religious gay men in Cuba. The researcher sought to describe their experiences with particular attention to how their identities as religious interacted with their identities as gay men. All this was against a backdrop of oppression for both identities in Cuba. These subjects were clearly outside ?the flock? of mainstream Cuban society.
(PDF - 258 Kb) Document Date: 30 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 122)
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Iraq: Wave of Homophobia Sweeps the Muslim World - By Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Daniel Steinvorth on www.spiegel.de, on 09/17/09: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-647913,00.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"In Baghdad a new series of murders began early this year, perpetrated against men suspected of being gay. Often they are raped, their genitals cut off, and their anuses sealed with glue. Their bodies are left at landfills or dumped in the streets. The non-profit organization Human Rights Watch, which has documented many of these crimes, has spoken of a systematic campaign of violence involving hundreds of murders."
(PDF - 111 Kb) Document Date: 17 Sep 2009 (Downloads: 163)
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ONU pide a Ecuador acciones para frenar violencia - The United Nations asks Ecuador for action to stop violence- by El Telegrafo, on www.eltelegrafo.com.ec, 10/30/09: http://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/actualidad/noticia/archive/actualidad/2009/10/30/ONU-pide-a-Ecuador-acciones-para-frenar-violencia-.aspx (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Otro motivo de preocupación los casos de mujeres transexuales internadas en clínicas privadas o centros de rehabilitación para ser sometidas a los denominados tratamientos de reorientación sexual y que "hayan sido víctimas de encierros forzados y malos tratos en clínicas de rehabilitación en la ciudad de Portoviejo en junio de 2009". <br><br>
"El estado ecuatoriano debe adoptar medidas para prevenir, proteger y garantizar que ninguna persona con distinta orientación sexual sea internada en clínicas privadas o centros de rehabilitación para ser sometida a los denominados tratamientos de reorientación sexual, señala el Comité."<br><br>=============================================================<br> <br>
Another cause for concern is that of the cases of transsexual women who are confined in private clinics or rehabilitation centers in order to be subjected to the so-called sexual reorientation assignments and that "they have been victims of forced lock-ups and bad treatment in rehabilitation clinics in the city of Portoviejo in June, 2009."<br><br>
The Ecuatorian state should adopt means for preventing, protecting and guaranteeing that no one with a distinct sexual orientation should be committed to private clinics or rehabilitation centers in order to be subjected to so-called sexual reorientation treatments, indicated the Committee."
(PDF - 67 Kb) Document Date: 30 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 209)
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Pakistan: Mob kills elderly man for being "homosexual"- by www.dailytimes.com.pk on 11/01/09: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/print.asp?page=200911?1story_1-11-2009_pg12_3 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"They said a group of angry people raided his house where he was indulged in an obscene activity with a man and killed him on the spot by hitting him with clubs and rods."
(PDF - 56 Kb) Document Date: 1 Nov 2009 (Downloads: 225)
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Protesta en Colombia por asesinato de trans trabajadoras sexuales.- Protest in Colombia for murder of Trans sex workers- by Manuel Velandia, www.agmagazine.info on 11/06/09: http://www.agmagazine.info/2009/11/06/protesta-en-colombia-por-asesinato-de-trans-trabajadoras-sexuales/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"La Relatora Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la situación de los defensores de derechos humanos, Margaret Sekaggya, se refirió a la peligrosa situación que estos defensores afrontan en Colombia- incluidos los activistas LGBT-. En su declaración pública Sekaggya ha dicho "siguen existiendo en Colombia patrones de hostigamiento y persecución contra los defensores de derechos humanos, y a menudo contra sus familiares. Periodistas, sindicalistas, magistrados, abogados, activistas estudiantiles y juveniles, mujeres defensoras, líderes indígenas y afrocolombianos, así como activistas LGBT han sido asesinados, torturados, maltratados, desaparecidos, amenazados, capturados y detenidos arbitrariamente, judicializados, vigilados, desplazados por la fuerza, u obligados a exiliarse; o bien se han allanado sus oficinas y se han robado sus archivos, a causa de su trabajo de defensa de los derechos humanos y libertades fundamentales."<br><br>
"The Special Reporter from the United Nations about the situation of the defense of human rights, Margaret Sekaggya, referred to the dangerous situation that these defenders face in Colombia - including the LGBT activists. In her public declaration, Sekaggya said "there continue to exist in Colombia patterns of hostility and persecution against the defenders of human rights, and often against their families. Newspaper reporters, union members, judges, lawyers, youth and student activists. female attorneys, indigenous and afro-Colombian leaders, along with LGBT activists have been assassinated, tortured, mistreated, kidnapped, threatened, captured and abitrarily detained, put on trial, watched, displaced by force, or forced to go into exile; and also they have broken into their offices and stolen their files, because of their work of defending human rights and fundamental liberties."
(PDF - 336 Kb) Document Date: 6 Nov 2009 (Downloads: 226)
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SIDA, un drama social en México- AIDS, a social drama in Mexico- by Gabriela Guerra Rey, www.prensa-latina.cu, on 10/31/09: http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133516&Itemid=1 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"A todos los problemas se suma el rechazo social, denuncia el
especialista de Letra S, quien destacó a Prensa Latina que los empresarios no suelen emplear a los infectados. Asimismo recordó el
caso del estado sureño de Chiapas, donde hasta hace poco se pretendía
criminalizar a las personas que contagiaran a otras.
Incluso el personal médico en ocasiones suele rechazar a los enfermos y muchos consideran que las víctimas son las responsables de su
suerte, acotó Brito."<br><br>
"To all of the problems, add social rejection, reports the specialist from Letter S, who emphasized to Latin Press that the business owners are not used to hiring those that are infected. Likewise, he remembered the case of the southern state of Chiapas, where until a little while ago they attempted to criminalize those who infected others. Also, medical personnel at times are accustomed to rejecting those that are sick and many consider that the victims are responsible for their luck, Brito testified."
(PDF - 226 Kb) Document Date: 31 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 168)
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Venezuela: Homophobia Stalks the Streets - in Uniform- by Humberto Márquez ,www.ipsnews.net on 11/04/09: http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=49132 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"This incident in October was one of the multiple arbitrary arrests carried out against the GLBTI (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transvestite, transgender and intersex) community, within the framework of Operation Safe Caracas, a campaign to crack down on crime involving personnel from several police forces and the National Guard, a military body with police functions. " <br><br> "In Caracas and the oil-rich western state of Zulia, where Venezuela Diversa is also active, "so far this year nine transsexual persons have been killed in violence related to their condition, so one of our most urgent claims is proper guarantees for the right to life," Matheus said."
(PDF - 106 Kb) Document Date: 4 Nov 2009 (Downloads: 160)
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Conseil Canadien pour les régufugiés/ Canadian Counsil for refugees- 2008 Refugee Clain Data & IRB Menter Grant Rates: by by Sean Rehaag Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School- http://www.ccrweb.ca/documents/rehaagdatamarch09.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Data obtained from the Immigration and Refugee Board through an Access to Information Request reveals vast disparities in refugee claim grant rates across IRB Members in 2008. <br><br>
In 2008, some Members very rarely granted refugee status, including Andre Lamoureux (3.6%, 55 decisions) and Roger Houde (4.4%, 92 decisions). Others granted refugee status in virtually all the cases they heard, including Marie Chevrier (99.6%, 262 decisions) and Richard Dawson (98.8%, 257 decisions).
(PDF - 134 Kb) Document Date: 1 Dec 2008 (Downloads: 124)
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LGBT rights in Libya - by Wickipedia on 08/27/09: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Libya (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Living conditions<br><br>
Due to both legal and social reasons, many homosexuals decide to stay in the closet. Many emigrate from Libya to live in more liberal places like Spain, the United Kingdom, France or the United States.
(PDF - 126 Kb) Document Date: 27 Aug 2009 (Downloads: 171)
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Libya : Travel advice - by http://www.fco.gov.uk on 01/10/09: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/middle-east-north-africa/libya (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Homosexuality is considered a criminal offence in Libya, for which the minimum prison sentence is three years. The authorities are known to charge and convict homosexuals under this law. Sexual relations outside marriage are also punishable by law."
(PDF - 56 Kb) Document Date: 1 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 214)
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Jamaican town imposes 'Gay Eradication Day'- by www.digitaljournal.com on 10/30/09: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/281361 Jamaican town imposes 'Gay Eradication Day' (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The Jamaica Star is reporting that two weeks ago, residents of McGregor Gully declared they were fed up with gay behavior, and ordered all gays to leave by today. Those who did not leave would "suffer the consequences" "
(PDF - 141 Kb) Document Date: 30 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 214)
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Tunisia _ RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs) TUN42681.FE, by Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa, Canada, 28 May 2004: http://www2.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/rir/?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=444335 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Homosexuality is still illegal in Tunisia and can carry a punishment of up to three years in prison (Kelmaghreb n.d.; Sodomy Laws 8 May 2004)."
(PDF - 102 Kb) Document Date: 28 May 2004 (Downloads: 126)
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Tunisia: US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2008 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor 02/25/09: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/nea/119128.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Other Societal Abuses and Discrimination<br><br>
Homosexuality is illegal. There is anecdotal evidence that homosexuals face some forms of discrimination. <br><br>
There is anecdotal evidence that people with HIV/AIDS face some forms of discrimination. While there were NGOs to assist persons living with HIV, they faced discrimination in the quality of and in their access to medical care.
(PDF - 130 Kb) Document Date: 25 Feb 2009 (Downloads: 245)
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Ugandan gays and Muslim women:a common struggle to redefine family- by Cassandra Balchin, www.opendemocracy.net on 11/09/09: http://www.opendemocracy.net/print/48948 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"In a recent commentary on the Bill [1], two Ugandan human rights defenders, Solome Nakaweesi-Kimbugwe and Frank Mugisha, warned that ?By penalising citizens for failing to report 'suspected homosexuals' to the authorities, the bill calls for the creation of a fascist-style society where family members, service providers and colleagues are made to spy on each other."
(PDF - 83 Kb) Document Date: 9 Nov 2009 (Downloads: 223)
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Colombia: El ochenta por ciento de los barranquilleros es intolerante con la comunidad LGBT - Eighty percent of people from Barranquilla are intolerant of the LGBT community- by www.eltiempo.com on 08/24/09: http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/caribe/ARTICULO-PRINTER_FRIENDLY-PLANTILLA_PRINTER_FRIENDL-5931129.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"El propósito es crear una cultura para que no nos sigan atropellando, ni se vulneren nuestros derechos, que no se nos tomen fotos ni videos en los sitios de homosexualización", manifestó Heriberto Mejía." <br><br> "Un simple abrazo o una expresión de afecto ha bastado para ser víctimas de ataque", añadió.
Los voceros LGBT expresaron que no cuentan con un registro de agresiones, pues muchos se cohíben y tampoco hay cultura de la denuncia, pero recordaron los dos transexuales asesinados el año pasado por un agente de la Policía, en un aparente ataque homofóbico."<br><br>
"The proposal is to create a culture so that they don't continue trampling on us, nor make our rights vulnerable, that they don't take photos nor videos in the sites of homosexualization" declared Heriberto Mejia." <br><br>
"A simple hug or an expression of affection has been enough to be victims of attack," he added. The LGBT speakers expressed that they don't rely on a record of aggression, since many live together and neither is there a culture of accusation, but they remembered the two transsexuals who were murdered last year by an agent of the Plice, in an apparent homophobic attack."
(PDF - 66 Kb) Document Date: 24 Aug 2009 (Downloads: 192)
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DRC STILL HOSTILE TO HOMOSEXUALITY - by Mask Admin on October 7, 2009: http://www.mask.org.za/printpage.php?id=2328 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Despite its six million inhabitants, Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is far from a city where one can live openly and express their sexual orientation." <br><br> "Hostile acts are not isolated. They are present in the city of Kinshasa and nobody talks about because they affect a layer which is constantly criticized. Kinshasa is certainly a big city but also a large village."
(PDF - 103 Kb) Document Date: 7 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 207)
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Es alta la homofobia en México: CNDH - Homophobia is high in Mexico: CNDH- by Judith García, www.oem.com.mx on 11/13/09: http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldehidalgo/notas/n1360876.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Indicó que la persistencia de prejuicios como la homofobia y el machismo originan la segregación de hombres y mujeres homosexuales, bisexuales y transgéneros, y los convierten en víctimas frecuentes de extorsión, humillación, así como expulsión de sus comunidades o de sus familias, incluso de lesiones y asesinato. <br><br>
Aunque el derecho a la no discriminación está jurídicamente garantizado por el artículo 1º Constitucional, y algunas entidades federativas cuentan con leyes específicas en la materia, la homofobia -el perjuicio que atribuye características negativas a las personas por ser o parecer homosexuales- sigue siendo causa de violaciones a derechos fundamentales y motivo para que la CNDH se pronuncie en favor de que el 17 de mayo sea considerado "Día Nacional de la Lucha Contra la Homofobia".<br><br>
"It was shown that the persistence of prejudices such as homophobia and machismo causes the segregation of homosexual men and women, transsexuals, and transgenders and transforms them into frequent victims of extortion, humiliation, as well as expulsion from their communities or their families, and even injuries and murder.<br><br>
Even though the right to non-discrimination is legally guaranteed by Article 1 of the Constitution, and some federal entities rely on laws specific to the subject, homophobia - the prejudice which attributes negative characteristics to people for being or appearing to be homosexuals - continues being the cause of violations to the fundamental rights and the motive for the CNDH to announce in favor of the 17th of May being considered as "National Day of the Fight Against Homophobia."
(PDF - 119 Kb) Document Date: 13 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 140)
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Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC): Treatment of gays and lesbians and availability of state protection against discrimination and/or targeting (2001-April 2003) , 4 April 2003, RDC40951.E , available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3f7d4e031c.html [accessed 5 November 2009] : (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Homosexual activity is not illegal in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Police arrests are usually made when the person concerned has acted without due regard to propriety or acted against public morals but this applies to heterosexual activity as well. Male homosexuals are not treated any differently to female homosexuals by the law. Homosexuality has traditionally been regarded as a crime against nature and homosexuals could be punished in accordance with local tradition. This might have included being ostracized or segregated. Homosexuality does not now generally result in public condemnation or police harassment (United Kingdom Oct. 2002)."
(PDF - 249 Kb) Document Date: 4 Apr 2003 (Downloads: 133)
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