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Zimbabwe: 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/af/119032.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The following human rights violations also continued: violence and discrimination against women; trafficking of women and children; discrimination against persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, homosexuals, and persons living with HIV/AIDS; harassment and interference with labor organizations critical of government policies; child labor; and forced labor, including of children."
(PDF - 133 Kb) Document Date: 25 Feb 2009 (Downloads: 277)
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Chile: Demand Investigation Into Attacks on Transgender People in Valparaiso - by IGLHRC on 07/27/09 on: http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/takeaction/globalactionalerts/949.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The rights violated in this case include: The right to life and security, the right to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the right to be free from discrimination, the right to equality before the law, and the right to freedom of expression."
(PDF - 282 Kb) Document Date: 27 Jul 2009 (Downloads: 261)
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From Perversion to Pathology: Discourses and Practices of Gender Policing in the Islamic Republic of Iran - by Raha Bahreini -Muslim World Journal of Human Rights , Volume 5, Issue 1 2008 Article 2-12/30/08: http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?context=mwjhr&article=1152&date=&mt=MTI0ODgwMDI0Ng==&access_ok_form=Continue (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Osgoode Hall Law School, RahaBahreini@osgoode.yorku.ca <br><brt>
"Abtract:<br>
Abstract
The Islamic Republic of Iran punishes homosexuality with death but it actively recognizes
transsexuality, and partially funds sex change operations. This article aims to examine how this
seemingly progressive stance on transsexuality is connected to the IRI?s larger oppressive appara-
tus of gender. It will ?rst provide an overview of the cultural politics of gender and sexuality under
the Islamic Republic?s rule, and will then discuss the con?uence of religious and medical litera-
tures that led the Islamic Republic to adopt its new discourse on transsexuality despite ? or perhaps
rather because of ? its sex/gender politics. The article does not deny that this emerging discourse
has been somewhat empowering for those transsexuals who genuinely desire surgical transforma-
tion. But empowering as it might have been for such transsexuals, the emerging discourse is still
deeply troubling since it systematically regards homosexuality and more generally any sexual or
gender non-conformity as unintelligible, perverse, and punishable by law, except for those willing
to transform their ?wrong bodies.? The article will, therefore, demonstrate that the IRI?s permission
of transsexuality and sex change operations is motivated by a goal that is more about assimilat-
ing gender atypical individuals into the heteronormative order than about broadening horizons for
sex/gender possibilities. The article ends by discussing how this discourse is making non-surgical
trans/multi-gendered identity illegible and illegitimate not only as a publicly recognized possibil-
ity, but also with regard to transpersons? own self-perception and self-constitution of their gender
and sexual subjectivity."
(PDF - 543 Kb) Document Date: 30 Dec 2008 (Downloads: 360)
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Homosexuality in Africa: Myth or Reality? An Ethnographic Exploration in Togo, West Africa - by Virgile Capo-Chichi & Sethson Kassegné Presented at 5th African Population Conference Arusha, Tanzania (December 10-14, 2007) :http://uaps2007.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=70562 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"...-homosexuality as it exists nowadays is unknown to traditional
African societies. There was no man-to-man sex... In contrast,
traditional chiefs of priests in the process of their enthronization were
known to have lived in isolation and therefore participated in
"recurrent" masturbation to satisfy their sexual desires. This is what
was perceived as homosexuality." (gatekeeper, Kara)
(PDF - 805 Kb) Document Date: 14 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 323)
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India's gays celebrate too soon - Supreme Court signals it may hear appeal on the recent decriminalization of homosexual sex. -By Jason Overdorf, www.ethiopianreview.com on 07/28/09: http://www.ethiopianreview.com/articles/18687 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"NEW DELHI ? Just when India's gay and lesbian community thought it was safe to come out of the closet, new moves by religious leaders and conservative politicians have revealed the deep divide between an increasingly liberal elite of the metropolitan cities and a socially conservative mainstream society.<br><br> Now, the ball is in the Supreme Court. But India's judicial system moves at a glacial place and its judges have a tendency to choose deferment over decision when the verdict might be troublesome. So the country's gay community may have to wait another eight years before it is truly safe to come out of the closet."
(PDF - 103 Kb) Document Date: 28 Jul 2009 (Downloads: 229)
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Rethinking Malaysia's sodomy laws - By Claire Brownell, on www.malaysianbar.org.my, 07/26/09 : http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/general_opinions/comments/rethinking_malaysias_sodomy_laws.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"THEY'RE colonial relics, they're rarely invoked, and other Asian countries have effectively taken them off the books. But because Malaysia's sodomy laws are tangled up in politics and religion, they're probably not going anywhere for a while." <br><br> "It's stated there in the Bible, it's stated there in the Old Testament, it's stated there in the Al Quran. So I think, to be safe, we should just follow God's law."
(PDF - 24 Kb) Document Date: 26 Jul 2009 (Downloads: 168)
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Singapore OKs Anal, Oral Sex for Straights, Not for Gays - By Bryan Ochalla, on www.gaywired.com on 10/25/07: http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?id=17034§ion=67 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"In a rare speech before Parliament, Singapore?s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the state "is basically a conservative society... and we want to keep it so," Reuters reported." <br><br>
"Homosexuals should not set the tone for Singapore's society," he added. "Nor do we consider homosexuals a minority... with minority rights protected under the law."
(PDF - 319 Kb) Document Date: 25 Oct 2007 (Downloads: 180)
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Tanzania: 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/af/119028.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Homosexuality was illegal. The penal code makes it an offense punishable by up to five years in prison to have carnal knowledge of any person of the same sex. The law in Zanzibar establishes a penalty of up to 25 years' imprisonment for men who engage in homosexual relationships and seven years for women in lesbian relationships. There were no reports that anyone was punished under the law during the year. Homosexuals faced societal discrimination.<br><br>
The Tanzania Parliamentarians' AIDS Coalition addressed discrimination against persons infected with HIV/AIDS. However, there were reports that discrimination in housing, healthcare, and education continued to occur against the estimated 1.4 million persons in the country living with HIV/AIDS. The government, working with NGOs, continued to sensitize the public about HIV/AIDS-related discrimination and to create safeguards for HIV/AIDS patients' human rights. A network of lawyers, policymakers, and doctors continued lobbying efforts and other activities to deal with legal, ethical, and human rights problems associated with HIV/AIDS."
(PDF - 131 Kb) Document Date: 25 Feb 2009 (Downloads: 263)
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As South Africa Approves Homosexual Marriage,Tanzania Reaffirms-Meg Jalsevac, 11/17/06: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/nov/06111705.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"In direct response, the slightly northern African country of Tanzania has come out reaffirming the fact that its code of law deems homosexual acts illegal and will not change any time soon."
(PDF - 94 Kb) Document Date: 17 Nov 2006 (Downloads: 281)
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HIV Prevention With Men Who Have Sex with Other Men (MSM) in Togo-M. Geiss, S. Kassegne, and V. Capo Chichi, International Aids Society, 08/13/08: http://www.aegis.com/conferences/iac/2008/MoAc0102.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"In Togo, as in most African countries, homosexuality is illegal and taboo.
Consequently, men who have sex with men (MSM) are rarely addressed by HIV prevention programs despite their elevated risk of infection"<br><br>
"Research findings confirmed that male-male sex occurs in Togo. 51% of the participants had been tested for HIV and 67% could cite two or more modes of HIV prevention, but only 21% reported systematic condom use. Participants judged their HIV risk as the same or lower than the general population, based on the belief that HIV is contracted from sexual encounters with women."
(PDF - 54 Kb) Document Date: 13 Aug 2008 (Downloads: 349)
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In Togo, Men Who Have Sex With Men Seek Security, Tolerance, Equal Access-www.psi.org, 12/01/08: http://www.psi.org/resources/pubs/msm-togo.pdf (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Abominable. Shameful. Disgraceful. All these words have been used towards men who have sex with men (MSM) in Togo. Although many MSM desire to have a family, it is commonly believed that they do not hold the same values as other Togolese, that they are alien. These men become marginalized and stigmatized by their very own families, friends and communities."
(PDF - 580 Kb) Document Date: 1 Dec 2008 (Downloads: 166)
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Namibia chips away at African taboos on homosexuality-Emily Wax, Washington Post, 10/24/05: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102301163.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"...My advice is that it's not 'African' to be gay, the teacher replied, using a slur for the term. 'Ignore those feelings and try girls.' She also apparently gossiped with colleagues. Other teachers started teasing Gurirab, asking him why he didn't play soccer and why he spent so much time around his mother. Then one morning, he said, the gym teacher invited him into his office, locked the door and forced him onto the desk for sex. 'Let's see how good you are at it,' the teacher said, according to Gurirab, now 25, who recounted the story through tears. The ordeal left his legs and arms with red bruises. The next day, distraught and confused, he had sex with a female classmate. 'I wanted to change so badly and not be gay . . . but I couldn't,' he said.
'I knew I liked men. I decided I would kill myself. . . . I was so desperate I called a lifeline in London. They saved my life.'"<br><br>
"Treatment of gays, group members said, ranges from social ostracism to physical attacks. In rural Namibia, they found, about 80 percent of gay men and lesbians were forced to marry and have children. In many countries, gay people were often depressed and reported having covert same-sex relations outside heterosexual marriages."
(PDF - 166 Kb) Document Date: 24 Oct 2005 (Downloads: 181)
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Namibia's prisons sit on Aids 'time bomb'-Natasha Tibinyane, Mail and Guardian Online, 01/04/06: http://www.mg.co.za/article/2006-01-04-namibias-prisons-sit-on-aids-time-bomb (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"...however, the 1977 Criminal Procedures Act raises questions that relate to both health and rights. As a result of the Act, condoms are not being distributed in Namibian jails: to do so would amount to condoning sex between men in contravention of the law, says the government, even if it had the benefit of reducing HIV transmission. 'By giving them [prisoners] a condom, you are telling them to go ahead and do it,' says Ignatius Mainga, a spokesperson for the ministry of safety and security's prison services"<br><br>
"However, he is of one mind with other campaigners in believing that prisons are a breeding ground for HIV, and that condoms would help curb the Aids pandemic in Namibia's jails. 'In cases where it is consensual, whether inside or outside of prison, the state has to allow consenting adults o make their choices,' says Tjombe. ? IPS"
(PDF - 258 Kb) Document Date: 4 Jan 2006 (Downloads: 286)
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Namibia: 2008 Country Report on Human Rights Practices-Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, 02/25/09: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/119031.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The law prohibits 'carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature,' but it does not specifically outlaw homosexuality"
(PDF - 176 Kb) Document Date: 25 Feb 2009 (Downloads: 190)
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Namibia: Treatment of homosexuals by society and government authorities-Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 03/12/07: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,IRBC,,NAM,456d621e2,469cd6ad17,0.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Mushelenga reportedly accused gays and lesbians of causing the HIV/AIDS problem in the country and called them "a slap in the face of African culture"<br><br>
"The Rainbow Project, a non-governmental organization dedicated to LGBT people, indicates that by September 2005, they had recorded over 3,000 cases of 'violence' against LGBT people since the beginning of the year and that "[s]ome 75 percent of LGBT people preferred to suffer in silence in order to hide their identity and save themselves from hate speech and crime"
(PDF - 259 Kb) Document Date: 12 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 164)
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Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and International Human Rights Law: Contextualising theYogyakarta Principles-Michael O'Flaherty and John Fisher, 03/26/07: http://www.yogyakartaprinciples.org/yogyakarta-article-human-rights-law-review.pdf (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Violations directed against lesbians because of their sex are often inseparable from violations directed against them because of their sexual orientation. Community restrictions on women?s sexuality result in a range of human rights violations, such as the multiple rape of a lesbian in Zimbabwe, arranged by her own family in an attempt to "cure" her of her homosexuality"
(PDF - 440 Kb) Document Date: 26 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 165)
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Tanzania: Activists Petition UN over violation of gay rights-Edward Qorro, The Citizen Daily Newspaper, 07/15/09: http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/newe.php?id=13774 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Human rights campaigners have filed a report with the United Nations, complaining against Tanzania's violation of the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) persons. The report submitted this month to the Human Rights Committee of the UN seeks to highlight the social and legal obstacles that hinder the freedom of the groups with this type of social relations."<br><br>
"Because of the criminalisation and stigmatisation, they said careers and lives had been destroyed, while promotion of violence and impunity was the daily suffering by the LGBT that drive them underground to live in invisibility and fear"
(PDF - 122 Kb) Document Date: 15 Jul 2009 (Downloads: 271)
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Tanzania: Gay Men Liable to Jail for Life in Zanzibar-Jeevan Vasagar, The Guardian, 03/24/04: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/mar/25/gayrights.jeevanvasagar (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"A moral panic over homosexuality in Zanzibar has prompted the island?s government to draft a law imposing life imprisonment for men convicted of gay sex.Homosexuality is already illegal on the Indian Ocean island and the gay scene is covert, but the draft bill appears to be a backlash against the increasing number of Zanzibaris living more openly gay lifestyles."
(PDF - 93 Kb) Document Date: 25 Mar 2004 (Downloads: 264)
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Tanzania: Homosexuality on the Rise, says Muslim Clerics-www.mask.org.za, 06/23/05: http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=islam&id=739 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Youth homosexuality is on the rise along east Africa?s Indian Ocean coast and must be stopped a Muslims clerics meeting in Tanzanians semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar said on Thursday." <br><br>
"They prescribed a maximum of 25 years in prison for male partners found having sex and seven years for lesbian sexual acts."
(PDF - 137 Kb) Document Date: 23 Jun 2005 (Downloads: 309)
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Tanzania: Secrecy, Stones and Insults_The Gay Life on Zanzibar-Helen Nyambura, 11/08/04: http://sodomylaws.org/world/tanzania/tznews014.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"As a homosexual in the devoutly Islamic Indian Ocean Island, Hamedi is afraid other worshippers will attack him if he dares enter a mosque."<br><br>
"'They know I am gay, they throw stones at me on the streets, they insult me. I don?t have time for them, I keep to my business.' Hamedi said, asking that his name and profession be kept secret."
(PDF - 93 Kb) Document Date: 8 Nov 2004 (Downloads: 310)
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