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Colombia: Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Situation of Human Rights in Colombia-02/28/05-http://daccess-ods.un.org/TMP/2121195.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Local officials particularly mayors and former mayors, councilors and former councilors, public officials, judicial officers, members of the Union Patriotica and the Communist Party, doctors and business people were also particularly vulnerable to actions by illegal armed groups. Lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender were also victims of abuses and discrimination, including mistreatment and acts of ?social cleansing?, because of their sexual orientation.
(PDF - 4,163 Kb) Document Date: 28 Feb 2005 (Downloads: 131)
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Colombia: The Impact of Conflict and Community Organizing on Colombian Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites and Transgender Individuals-By Neil Jeffery, Executive Director and Tara Carr, Research Fellow-09/07/04-U.S. Office on Colombia Connecting Civil Society to Policymakers. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Traditional Colombian society, heavily by Catholic Church teaching on homosexuality and by macho and patriarchal ideals of sexual identity and gender, has long considered homo-, bi- and transgender-sexuality reprehensible. Although the 1980s witnessed the decriminalization of homosexual relations and a gradual opening up of the debate on traditional values and social attitudes towards lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites and transgender individuals (LGBT), human rights violations against these communities continue. The forty-year civil conflict exacerbates the potential for abuse as state protection is weakened, individuals rely upon force to achieve their goals, and armed actors seek societal control through intimidation and violence. Members of LGBT communities require vigorous protection by Colombian state institutions as well as monitoring by nongovernmental organizations to ensure the preservation of their social, political, economic and social rights.
(PDF - 416 Kb) Document Date: 7 Sep 2004 (Downloads: 136)
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Government threatens to close Turkish gay group- Rex Wockner International News # 810 on 11/02/09 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The Black Pink Triangle Association in Izmir, Turkey, has become the
latest Turkish GLBT organization to face a closure threat from the
government." <br><br> "The prosecutor's demand for closure of our association is clearly a
violation of civil rights," the group said in a statement. "Establishing
an organization is a constitutional right and they want to take that right
from us."
(PDF - 21 Kb) Document Date: 2 Nov 2009 (Downloads: 218)
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Kenya bars ship carrying us gays - by Mask Admin on March 20, 2003; http://www.mask.org.za/printpage.php?id=288 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY <br><br> "East Africa Standard reported that, according to police, a ship carrying Caucasian homosexuals will not be allowed to dock at the port of Mombasa." <br><br> From the city centre, the march, which was organised by the Council of Muslim Clerics in the city, passed through Morogoro, Kawawa and Kigogo roads, to Masjid Islah where it ended.
On the way demonstrators burnt US flags as a sign of their grievances and protest against homosexuality.
(PDF - 108 Kb) Document Date: 20 Mar 2003 (Downloads: 237)
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Kenya, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Rwanda: World Social Forum: long fight for justice for homosexuals - By Joyce Mulama (Source: Inter Press Service News Agency) on 01/23/07: http://www.mask.org.za/printpage.php?id=1454 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY <br><br> "At the five-day forum, which opened Jan. 20 here in Kenya's capital, lesbians and gays from across Africa have come out to express how they have been ill-treated by society."
(PDF - 114 Kb) Document Date: 23 Jan 2007 (Downloads: 140)
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Kenya: Backlash against gays and lesbians starts - By Mwangi Githahu (Source: Kenya Post) on 01/28/07: http://www.mask.org.za/printpage.php?id=1458 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY <br><br> "Even before the week in which Kenyan gay and lesbian issues came to the fore at the just-concluded World Social Forum (WSF) was over, the backlash against the homosexual community had begun. <br><br> CIPK secretary-general Sheikh Mohamed Dor was reported to have asked the Government to clamp down on homosexuals beginning with those speaking at the the forum, whom he said should be arrested by police."
(PDF - 109 Kb) Document Date: 28 Jan 2007 (Downloads: 133)
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Latin America: New PAHO report says HIV/AIDS discrimination in health services violates human rights of patients-By Caribbeannetnews.com-11/29/03- http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2003/11/29/discrimination.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> ASSETERRE, St. Kitts: Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS in hospitals, clinics and other health-service centers constitutes a human rights violation.<br>That's according to a new 56-page report by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) that says many international bodies, particularly the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, have confirmed that the different international human rights treaties and agreements apply also to health care issues, including HIV/AIDS. <br>The report - to be released December 1, World AIDS Day - notes that most Latin American and Caribbean countries have ratified international human rights conventions and thus committed themselves to uphold the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
(PDF - 161 Kb) Document Date: 29 Nov 2003 (Downloads: 221)
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Nemat Safavi has been sentenced to Death - IRQR on 10/31/09: http://irqr.net/English/222.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Nemat Safavi, 21 years old, has been sentenced to death by the juvenile court in Ardebil, a city northwest Iran. <br><br> According to the Human Rights Activist Group in Iran, Nemat was detained by Iranian authorities when he was 16 years old because of his homosexual acts (Lavat). He was sentenced to death after being tried in the court of Ardebil. Mr. Safavi spent time since his arrest in a 'rectification and education' centre, and is now being kept in the division of youths in an Ardebil prison."
(PDF - 109 Kb) Document Date: 31 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 242)
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U.N. Human Rights Committee blasts Russia's treatment of gays - Rex Wokner International News # 810 on 02/11/09 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The committee urged Russia to pass a national law banning discrimination
on the basis of sexual orientation, launch a "sensitization campaign aimed
at the general public ... to combat discrimination against LGBT persons,"
provide "appropriate training to law enforcement officials," and "take all
necessary measures to guarantee the exercise in practice of the right to
peaceful association and assembly for the LGBT community.""
(PDF - 24 Kb) Document Date: 2 Nov 2009 (Downloads: 199)
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RUSSIA: CCPR/C/RUS/CO/6 -CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 40 OF THE COVENANT- Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee - Ninety-seventh session12-30 October 2009 : http://www2.ohchr.org/tbru/ccpr/CCPR-C-RUS-CO-6.pdf (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"27. The Committee is concerned about acts of violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) persons, including reports of harassment by the police and incidents of
people being assaulted or killed on account of their sexual orientation. The Committee notes with
concern the systematic discrimination against individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation
in the State party, including hate speech and manifestations of intolerance and prejudice by
public officials, religious leaders and in the media. The Committee is also concerned about
discrimination in employment, health care, education and other fields, as well as the
infringement of the right to freedom of assembly and association and notes the absence of
legislation that specifically prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. (art. 26)"
(PDF - 95 Kb) Document Date: 30 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 169)
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SELECTED DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY RELEVANT TO INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE PROTECTION - DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION S (DIPS) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - October 2009 - http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4ae99c582.html. (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Selected Documents Relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Relevant to International Refugee Protection, October 2009, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4ae99c582.html [accessed 2 November 2009]
(PDF - 200 Kb) Document Date: 31 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 230)
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Gays from Guyana report rights abuses at OAS meeting- Stabroek News, Posted: 6/24/2007: http://www.gaynewswatch.com/Page.cfm?PageID=3&SID=1511 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY <br><br>"A gay rights group from the South American country of Guyana aired concerns of LGBT Guyanese to the General Assembly of the Organization of American States and at a parallel event held days earlier. "
(PDF - 61 Kb) Document Date: 24 Jun 2007 (Downloads: 157)
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Grim AIDS report on Guyana- serious epidemics in urban areas- By Neil Marks, 05/31/06: http://www.guyanachronicle.com/ARCHIVES/archive%20%2031-05-06.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY <br><br>"AIDS has become the number one cause of death in Guyana among people aged 25?44 years, and national HIV prevalence stands at an estimated at 2.4 per cent, the report stated. <br><br> It is the second leading cause of death in the country, he added."
(PDF - 54 Kb) Document Date: 31 May 2006 (Downloads: 239)
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Kenya: Gays and lesbians demand rights - Daily Nation (Kenya) by Lucas Barasa January 26, 2007: http://skrivesiri.blogspot.com/2007/01/kenya-gays-and-lesbians-demand-rights.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY <br><br> "He said lesbians, gays and transsexuals should come out openly about it ?rather than blaming and shifting blame.? Mr Kamau was happy that the government had registered his organisation to help in the fight against HIV/Aids. ?We have been recognised in area of HIV/Aids but not on human rights issues,? Mr Kamau said. Mr Kamau whose group works closely with National Aids Control Council and Liverpool VCT said it also has networks in schools and universities. He called on the church to be tolerant to gays and lesbians, ?have a soft space for them and not call them demons or excommunicate them."
(PDF - 151 Kb) Document Date: 26 Jul 2007 (Downloads: 153)
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Kenya: Horror of rape in East African prisons - By Mariam Omar BBC Swahili Service , on 07/21/05: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4687209.stm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY <br><br> "Male rape happens in many prisons around the world. What makes it different in East Africa is that attitudes to homosexuality in society generally mean that this terrible problem is never acknowledged, never spoken about, even by the victims.
It is denied by officials - and by society at large. "
(PDF - 60 Kb) Document Date: 21 Jul 2005 (Downloads: 236)
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Thailand: Nothing sick or abnormal regarding transsexual - by Sanitsuda Ekachai is Assistant Editor (Outlook), Bangkok Post., on 10/29/09: http://www.bangkokpost.com/print/26458/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Ask any transsexual in Thailand what happened to him on military conscription day, and he will painfully tell you how he had to bear with humiliation, ridicule, and - quite often - sexual harassment." <br><br> Meanwhile, the military are busy fixing the conscription regulations to standardise the reasons for relieving transsexuals from draft duty. The draft regulation, already approved in principle by Cabinet, is now under scrutiny by the Council of State, the government's legal arm. It proposes two reasons to discharge transsexuals. One, for having gender identity disorder, which is translated in Thai as pid pokkrati or being abnormal. And two, for being mentally feminine as judged by the conscription committee."
(PDF - 97 Kb) Document Date: 29 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 238)
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The Coup in Honduras and a Rise in LGBT Violence- by Michael A. Jones, gayrights.change.org on 07/23/09: http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/the_coup_in_honduras_and_a_rise_in_lgbt_violence (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY <br><br>"Of course, it's worth noting that Honduras was never a beacon of tolerance for LGBT people. Before the coup, international officials documented widespread violence toward the LGBT population in Honduras, particularly violence against transgender folks. In 2006, a report was released that documented over 200 murders of transgender people and sex workers by state and non-state actors, as well as numerous incidents of police brutality.<br><br>
Looks like for LGBT folks in the country, the more things change politically, the more they're staying the same."
(PDF - 728 Kb) Document Date: 23 Jul 2009 (Downloads: 238)
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The Fear of Stones- HIV/AIDS and homophobia in Guyana- By Ruel Johnson, www.guyanachronicle.com on 05/31/09: http://www.guyanachronicle.com/ARCHIVES/archive%20%2031-05-06.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY <br><br>"Homophobia, Sir George Alleyne, the U.N. Secretary-General?s Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS to the Caribbean told the Guyana Chronicle in a recent interview, is the major stumbling block to fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS in Guyana." <br><br> According to SASOD member, Joel Simpson, homophobia is still very prevalent in this society. He identifies Guyana as second only to Jamaica in the level of homophobia in the Caribbean, citing the fact that non-heterosexual people are not free to cohabitate or even show public displays of affection without being verbally or often physically abused."
(PDF - 69 Kb) Document Date: 31 May 2006 (Downloads: 231)
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troubled life of a gay ethiopian - by Mask Admin on March 3, 2009 : http://www.mask.org.za/printpage.php?id=2060 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY <br><br>
"The Ethiopian culture is 100% connected with religion both Christian and Muslim which means I had to vanish or if the government came to my rescue I would have to go to jail for the crime I didn't commit or for the sins I didn't do, but just because of my nature. <br><br> Things went crazy when people found out that I am dating a guy. They broke in to my house and found me and my friend in bed and started to attack us, using anything they could find. My friend ran for his life but I was beaten into a pulp and I was left to die. Miraculously I survived but I still bear scars in my head, left arm, right ear, left arm, and my hand."
(PDF - 104 Kb) Document Date: 3 Mar 2009 (Downloads: 148)
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US slams Uganda's new anti-gay bill - by AFP, www.google.com on 10/29/09: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jEEJXoeBrTi17hexzYZqvmPgpPxg (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"If adopted, a bill further criminalising homosexuality would constitute a significant step backwards for the protection of human rights in Uganda," the embassy's public affairs officer Joann Lockard said in an email. <br><br> Buturo balked at the notion that the proposed bill -- which, among other things, would criminalise any public discussion of homosexuality and could penalise an individual who knowingly rented property to a homosexual -- constituted a human rights violation. <br><br> Homosexuality -- or "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" as it is currently described in existing laws -- is already illegal in Uganda and can be punished with life imprisonment."
(PDF - 237 Kb) Document Date: 29 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 150)
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