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Mexico- Policía de Torreón detiene y amedrenta a pareja gay -Torreon Police detains and intimidates gay couple- by Mario Alberto Reyes 7/16/07, Noticiese: http://www.gaymexico.com.mx/news7/notahemeroteca6169.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Full English translation for this document provided by Aubra Fletcher Esq. Office of the Special Master, Farrell v. Cate in San Francisco, CA <br><br>
*The accused is coordinator of the Office for the Promotion of Equality in the State Government. <br><br>
*Kissing his partner in a car shows a lack of morals <br><br>
?Last Tuesday night, members of the Public Security Office in Torreon, Coahuila detained Raymundo Valadez Andrade, coordinator of the lakeside region's Office for the Promotion of Equality and the Prevention of Discrimination, for kissing his partner while inside a car." <br><br>
Police in patrol car 35563, who refused to identify themselves, approached the couple after they got out of the car to make a call from a public phone. When they hung up the receiver, they were intercepted by the police officers whom with threatening attitude accused them of committing moral offenses.
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*El inculpado es coordinador de la Dirección para Promover la Igualdad del gobierno del estado <br><br>
*Besar a su pareja dentro de un auto "es una falta a la moral", arguyeron uniformados <br><br>
México DF, julio 16 de 2007 (Mario Alberto Reyes/ NotieSe).- <br><br>
Elementos de la Dirección de Seguridad Pública de Torreón, Coahuila, detuvieron la noche del pasado martes a Raymundo Valadez Andrade, coordinador de la Dirección para Promover la Igualdad y Prevenir la Discriminación en la región lagunera, por besar a su pareja dentro de un automóvil. <br><br>
Policías de la patrulla 35562, quienes se negaron a identificarse, abordaron a la pareja luego de que descendieran del auto para realizar una llamada desde un teléfono público. Cuando descolgaban el auricular fueron interceptados por los elementos policiacos quienes con actitud amenazante los acusaron de cometer faltas a la moral.
(PDF - 280 Kb) Document Date: 16 Jul 2007 (Downloads: 46)
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Homosexuals could soon be lynched in Ghana - MP warns- Source: citifmonline, www.ghanaweb.com, on 06/17/11: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=211415 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A senior member of Parliament has warned that the homosexual community in Ghana may soon be at the receiving end of mounting public anger in the form of physical attacks and outright death if they do not stop what he calls their evil deeds. <br><br> In an interview with Citi News? Parliamentary Correspondent, Richard Sky, Hon. Assuming said homosexuals operating in the country may have to relocate outside Ghana before the growing public outrage against them degenerates into systematic moves to eliminate them one after the other.
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?You cannot trace this act to any of the settings in Ghana. So this is foreign and I am I saying that Ghanaians cherish our culture a lot so for anybody to adulterate the cultural setting in Ghana as far as this act is concerned, I have the fear that people could take the law into their hands in future and deal with this people drastically.
(PDF - 79 Kb) Document Date: 17 Jun 2011 (Downloads: 41)
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NC28669: Austrians arrested after Budapest Pride [Hungary] - by Rex Wockner on 06/19/11 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Two Austrian participants were arrested yesterday, 18 June 2011, after the
LGBT Pride Parade in Budapest. Altogether 50 participants were stopped by
Hungarian police for almost two hours. "It was already after the parade,
we were walking back to our bus to travel home to Vienna when we were
physically attacked by around 15 people, including with terribly smelly
sprays", reports Judith Götz, who also writes for LAMBDA-Nachrichten, the
magazine of Homosexuelle Initiative (HOSI) Wien. <br><br> "We are really appalled by the handling of this affair by the Hungarian
police, and we expect that this incident will have some sort of diplomatic
sequel", declares Kurt Krickler, secretary-general of HOSI Wien.
(PDF - 43 Kb) Document Date: 19 Jun 2011 (Downloads: 39)
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LGBT Jamaicans & Allies Stand for Tolerance - by J-FLAG, on 06/17/11 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Since January 2011, J-FLAG has documented 42 homophobic assaults ranging from death threats to savage beatings of individuals at the hands of enraged mobs. The majority of these have been meted out to young males between 18 and 29 years. Sadly, in February, policemen and women in one incident in Montego Bay perpetrated eight of the human rights violations documented by J-FLAG this year. Many LGBT Jamaicans live in constant fear of being attacked and persecuted as a result of the island's entrenched homophobia. <br><br> Even children bear the burden of Jamaica?s unfounded homophobia. On Monday, May 30, a youngster, not thought to be more than 13 years old, was set upon in his community of Glendevon in St. James. He was savagely beaten with machetes; pieces of board and whatever other weapons members of the mob could lay their hands on. This occurred because the boy was rumored to have been involved in a homosexual act with another youngster from the area.
(PDF - 160 Kb) Document Date: 17 Jun 2011 (Downloads: 39)
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Homofobia en México deja un promedio de 3 asesinatos de homosexuales al mes / Homophobia in Mexico leaves an average of 3 murders of homosexuals every month- by APF, Nacion.com, on 06/22/07: http://wvw.nacion.com/ln_ee/2007/junio/22/latinoamericaya-070622183940.cj2egj9m.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
MEXICO (AFP) - Pese a la reciente legalización de la unión de parejas del mismo sexo en la capital mexicana y el estado de Coahuila (norte), la homofobia sigue latente en México con tres asesinatos de homosexuales en promedio al mes, además de constantes agresiones físicas y verbales. <br><br>
"Cada mes, se registran en promedio tres asesinatos de homosexuales (hombres) en México por su condición de ser homosexuales, y esto está documentado", dijo a la AFP Fernando del Collado, autor del libro "Homofobia, odio, crimen y justicia", que recoge los casos de 387 asesinatos de gays ocurridos en México de 1995 a 2005.
(PDF - 219 Kb) Document Date: 22 Jun 2007 (Downloads: 38)
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Mexico: Homosexuales se sienten discriminados - La mitad de la población los rechaza / Homosexuals feel discrimianted- half of the population rejects them. - by EFE - Univision.com, on 05/15/07: http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=1181394 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Según estas encuestas, el 71 por ciento de
los jóvenes mexicanos no apoyaría el
otorgamiento de los mismos derechos a
las personas homosexuales que a las
heterosexuales, y el 42 por ciento declaró
que una pareja homosexual no debe tener
los mismos derechos que una
heterosexual. <br><br>
En la misma línea, el 58 por ciento afirmó
que a una pareja de homosexuales no se le
debe permitir contraer matrimonio, citó el
funcionario.en escuelas
(PDF - 570 Kb) Document Date: 15 May 2007 (Downloads: 43)
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Croatian gay pride parade attacked- Rex Wockner International News # 894, on 06/13/11 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The gay pride parade in Split, Croatia, was attacked June 11. <br><br>
Activists said thousands of opponents hurled rocks, bottles, firecrackers,
flares, tear gas, eggs, tomatoes, glass, bricks, shoes, paint, cigarette
lighters and flowerpots at the 200 marchers.<br><br>
They reportedly shouted, "Kill the gays." <br><br> Organizers faulted the authorities for failing to protect LGBT marchers'
right to freedom of assembly.
(PDF - 23 Kb) Document Date: 13 Jun 2011 (Downloads: 56)
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Mexico: Asesinan a muxe en Juchitán; las autoridades, indolentes / A muxe is murdered in Juchitán: the authorities, indolent, by NotieSe, on 03/14/09: http://www.notiese.org/notiese.php?ctn_id=2720 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Por lo anterior Uranga Muñoz advirtió que si las autoridades no hacen todos los esfuerzos posibles para esclarecer el crimen y detener al o los homicidas, serán sus cómplices. ?La indignación es colectiva, repudiamos el crimen y la impunidad en que se amparan este tipo de delitos. Nuestra solidaridad está con la familia de Adriana-Adán y con las trabajadoras sexuales?. <br><br>
Agregó que ?el crimen de odio no va a instalase en esa región sin cobrar grandes facturas al gobierno local. Demandamos una investigación profunda que además empiece a mirar a los fundamentalistas como autores intelectuales de los crímenes de odio. La vida de un muxe es tan valiosa como la de un científico francés o el hijo de un empresario o político? queremos que las autoridades responsables atiendan este caso con el profesionalismo que pondrían en investigar la muerte del más poderoso oaxaqueño?.
(PDF - 125 Kb) Document Date: 13 Mar 2009 (Downloads: 43)
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México destina sólo 26% de lo recomendado a lucha antisida / Mexico allocates only 26% of what?s recommended for the fight against AIDS - by Emir Olivares Alonso, La Jornada, on 08/13/07: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/08/13/index.php?section=sociedad&article=040n2soc (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Full translation provided by the Law office of Bernardo Merino, San Francisco, CA <br><br>
In a document divulged yesterday, Conapred denounced that, contrary to the recommendations of the United Nations Joint Program on H IV/AIDS (UNAIDS) that Mexico invest more than 600 million pesos for the prevention of the pandemic, this year the Ministry of Health only will direct 160 million for that aim, that is to say, barely 26 percent. <br><br>
The analysis of Conapred says that, according to official estimates, in those two decades and a half a minimum of 200 thousand Mexicans had been infected. <br><br>
The commission indicates that the budgets allocated to prevent the illness is official dependencies of the health sector are ?insufficient,? in addition of the state governments. <br><br>
?The reduction of the resources channeled to care that ill must be recognized as a health and of public education problem,? signals Conapred. <br><br>
En un documento difundido ayer, el Conapred denuncia que, contrario a las recomendaciones de Programa Conjunto de las Naciones Unidas sobre el VIH/Sida (ONUSIDA) para que México invierta más de 600 millones de pesos en la prevención de la pandemia, este año la Secretaría de Salud sólo destinará 160 millones para tal objetivo, es decir, apenas 26 por ciento. <br><br>
El análisis del Conapred refiere que, según cálculos oficiales, en esas dos décadas y media al menos otros 200 mil mexicanos han contraído la infección. <br><br>
La comisión indica que también son "insuficientes" los presupuestos asignados para prevenir la enfermedad en dependencias oficiales del sector salud, además de los gobiernos estatales. <br><br>
"Lo reducido de los recursos canalizados a atender ese mal debe reconocerse como un problema de salud y educación públicas", señala el Conapred,
(PDF - 187 Kb) Document Date: 13 Aug 2007 (Downloads: 43)
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Mexico: Desatiende sector salud a comunidad lésbico-gay / Heath sector neglects lesbian-gay community- by Raúl Morales Velázquez- www.lajornadamorelos.com 05/08/08 :http://www.lajornadamorelos.com/component/content/article/62863-desatiende-sector-salud-a-comunidad-lesbico-gay (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Full English translation for this document was provided by Aubra Fletcher Esq. Office of the Special Master, Farrell v. Cate in San Francisco, CA<br><br>
"The President of the State Committee for Sexual Diversity in Morelos, María Bahena Ocampo , assured that discrimination on the part of the health community continues in regards to the lesbian-gay community." having abandoned members of this organization who are carriers of HIV/AIDS.
<br><br> "CUERNAVACA. María Bahena Ocampo, presidenta del Comité Estatal por la Diversidad Sexual en Morelos, aseguró que continúa la discriminación por parte del sector salud en contra de la comunidad lésbico-gay, esto al dejar en el abandono a los integrantes de esa organización portadores del VIH/Sida."
(PDF - 118 Kb) Document Date: 8 May 2008 (Downloads: 42)
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Mexico: Ssa reconoce desabasto de medicamentos para personas que viven con VIH/sida / Health Department recognizes medicine shortage for people living with HIV/AIDS - by NotieSe, 03/13/08: http://www.notiese.org/notiese.php?ctn_id=2241 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
México DF., marzo 13 de 2008. El subsecretario de Prevención y Atención a la Salud de la Secretaría de Salud, Mauricio Hernández, reconoce que hay desabasto de medicamentos contra el VIH pero prefiere llamarlo ?retraso? en las compras de dichos fármacos, aunque esto finalmente repercute en la fractura terapéutica de las personas que requieren tratamiento, aseveró Arturo Díaz Betancourt, coordinador del Comité Técnico de Vigilancia Ciudadana (Mexsida).
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En entrevista con NotieSe, Díaz Betancourt afirmó que Hernández ?es un mentiroso? porque ?siempre nos miente y nunca nos toma en cuenta como sociedad civil?, y anunció que, con la información que le fue proporcionada por el Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información (IFAI) iniciará un proceso contra el funcionario ante la Secretaría de la Función Pública.
(PDF - 90 Kb) Document Date: 13 Mar 2008 (Downloads: 56)
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En cinco años el rechazo a gays ?se mantiene igual?, reconoce Conapred / According to Conapred, rejection of gays is ?still the same,? during the last five years.- by Francisco Iglesias, Milenio, on 04/11/11: http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/434f5cc48739b1e6f2b64e6cf268c34b (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was translated in full by East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Berkeley CA <br><br>Hay mayor rechazo a mujeres lesbianas que a hombres homosexuales - Ricardo Bucio
<br><br> En tanto, el ombudsman capitalino, Luis González Placencia afirmó que "desafortunadamente este país sigue discriminando y sigue discriminando a los mismos grupos que históricamente han sido discriminados".
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El titular de la CDHDF señaló que en México desde hace años prevalece una cultura con visiones que descalifican la diferencia y comentó que los medios de comunicación "han hecho burla y estereotipado" a distintos grupos vulnerables bajo el argumento de la libertad de expresión.
<br><br> There is more rejection of lesbians than of gay men. - Ricardo Bucio <br><br>
The ombudsman from the capital, Luis González Placencia affirms that "unfortunately this country keeps discriminating the same historically discriminated groups." <br><br>
The headline of the Human Rights Commission in Mexico DF noted that since long ago in Mexico prevails a culture with a vision that disqualifies difference and that, furthermore, the media has ?made fun of and stereotyped? many different groups. vulnerable under the argument of freedom of expression.
(PDF - 348 Kb) Document Date: 11 Apr 2011 (Downloads: 39)
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Iran's homosexuals come out of the closet...everywhere but at home- by observers.france24.com, 06/06/11: http://observers.france24.com/content/20110606-iranian-gays-around-world-speak-out-turkey-lgbt-pride (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
For now, the rights of homosexual, bisexual and transsexual people in Iran are non-existent. All sexual relations outside of traditional marriage are illegal and considered to be a violation of divine will. <br><br>
According to the Iranian interpretation of Sharia law, sodomy is a crime in which both partners can be punished by death. In theory, the death penalty applies only to adult and consensual homosexual partners. Nevertheless, in 2005 two teenage boys, one of whom was a minor, were hanged in the northern city of Mashad for having sexual relations together.<br><br> There is a real danger for us. Every minute of every day we fear being discovered because at any moment the police or an ordinary person could figure out what is going on. According the law, a lesbian receives 100 lashes the first three times she is arrested. She is executed the fourth time. For gay men it is different; they are executed right away.
(PDF - 534 Kb) Document Date: 6 Jun 2011 (Downloads: 45)
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Belize: elize churches join GOB in court battle against homosexuals- by Adele Ramos, www.amandala.com.bz, on 05/22/11: http://www.amandala.com.bz/index.php?id=11235 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The churches made the application last week to join the Attorney General of Belize, whom UNIBAM is suing over homosexual rights, to defend the laws currently outlawing sodomy. The churches are seeking to be added as an ?interested party? in the Supreme Court case, to be heard on July 13. <br><br> According to the joint press release from the churches on Wednesday, May 18, ?This [UNIBAM] lawsuit was filed to establish a new ?right? to engage in homosexual acts in Belize. In every country that has granted a new ?right? to homosexual behavior, activists have promoted and steadily expanded this ?right? to trump universally recognized rights to religious freedom and expression.?
(PDF - 75 Kb) Document Date: 22 May 2011 (Downloads: 38)
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Peru: Mensualmente más de 20 gays y lesbianas son víctimas de maltratos en Chimbote / More than 20 gays and lesbians are victims of mistreatment every month - by www.elferrolchimbote.com, 06/01/11: http://www.elferrolchimbote.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=260:mensualmente-mas-de-20-gays-y-lesbianas-son-victimas-de-maltratos-en-chimbote&catid=1:local&Itemid=181 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
La población homosexual y lésbica de la provincia del Santa denunciaron ser victimas de maltratos físico, psicológicos , así como discriminación, por parte de las autoridades y la sociedad civil, que no aceptan su opción sexual.
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La coordinadora de la Mesa de Trabajo de gays, lesbianas, travestis y bisexuales, Noheli Bueno, reveló que de acuerdo a sus estadísticas, cada mes en Chimbote se registra 20 actos de violencia contralos miembros de su comunidad. Asimismo revelo que a nivel nacional, sólo en los tes primeros meses de año se han registrado 40 asesinados a homosexuales y lesbianas, productos de estos crímenes de odio, perpetrados por gente homofóbica.<br><br>
The homosexual and lesbian population of the province of Santa reported that they are victims of physical and psychological mistreatment as well as discrimination on the part of the authorities as well as civil society, which do not accept their sexual option.<br><br>
The coordinator of the "Mesa de Trabajo" (board) of gays, lesbians, transvestites and bisexuals Noheli Bueno, revealed that according to their statistics, each month in Chimnbote 20 acts of violence against members of their community are registered. She also revealed that at the national level, in the first three months of this year alone 40 murders of homosexuals and lesbians have been reported, products of hate crimes, perpetrated by homophobic people.
(PDF - 185 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jun 2011 (Downloads: 49)
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RUSSIA Moscow Police Collude With Neo-Nazis at Moscow Gay Pride Mayor favoured neo-Nazis with protest permit ? 18 gay campaigners arrested at Kremlin and City Hall, by www.ukgaynews.org.uk,on 05/27/11: http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/11/May/2804.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
MOSCOW, May 28, 2011: ? We witnessed a high level of fraternisation and collusion between neo-Nazis and the Moscow police. I saw neo-Nazis leave and re-enter police buses parked on Tverskaya Street by City Hall. <br><br>
Our suspicion is that many of the neo-Nazis were actually plainclothes police officers, who did to us what their uniformed colleagues dared not do in front of the world?s media. Either that, or the police were actively facilitating the right-wing extremists with transport to the protest. <br><br>
Some of the Moscow Gay Pride participants were seized by police near the Kremlin, including international gay rights supporters Andy Thayer, Dan Choi and Louis-Georges Tin; plus Moscow Gay Pride committee member, Anna Komarova and other Russian gay activists.
(PDF - 472 Kb) Document Date: 27 May 2011 (Downloads: 55)
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Europe, Thomas Hammarberg: Pride events are still hindered ? this violates freedom of assembly: ILGA, 6/2/10: http://www.ilga- europe.org/home/guide/country_by_country/slovakia/thomas_hammarberg_pride_events _are_still_hindered_this_violates_freedom_of_assembly (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
States must protect peaceful demonstrations More than 20 gay pride events were organised in European cities during the month of May. In most cases there were no major problems reported. However, almost without exception, there were some incidents of disturbance or violence targeting these events ? a fact which underlines the need for competent police protection.
(PDF - 79 Kb) Document Date: 2 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 43)
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In South Africa's black townships, being gay can be fatal - Noxolo Nogwaza died because she dressed like a man and wasn't afraid of anyone, friends and backers in Kwa-Thema say, one of the latest of a series of brutal rapes and killings of black lesbian women.- By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com, on 05/27/11; http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-south-africa-gay-killings-20110528,0,2952452,print.story (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
In one particularly appalling case this month, a 13-year-old girl was gang-raped because of her sexual orientation, according to South Africa's Justice Department. <br><br>
Noxolo's name means peace. She loved soccer and Kwaito music, a kind of hip-hop, and grew up hanging around boys and behaving like one. The 24-year-old lived with her grandmother and her closest confidant was her aunt, Nonyaniso. The two never spoke about Noxolo's sexuality; it wasn't necessary.
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"I knew about it, the way she was acting. She didn't tell me exactly, but I saw. The way she dressed and the way she liked to associate with guys. She dressed like a guy."
(PDF - 187 Kb) Document Date: 27 May 2011 (Downloads: 48)
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Lithuania: Lithuanian Parliament: ready to adopt anti-gay law proposals till the end of the year?, ILGA, 9/29/10: http://www.ilga- europe.org/home/guide/country_by_country/lithuania/lithuanian_parliament_ready_to_adopt_a nti_gay_law_proposals_till_the_end_of_the_year (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
On September 23, the Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) adopted its autumn agenda, preparing to debate and come to a final decision regarding the legislative amendments which would criminalize the ?promotion of homosexual relations in public places.? These amendments have the potential to go into effect as early as December 2010.
(PDF - 75 Kb) Document Date: 29 Sep 2010 (Downloads: 49)
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Palestine: ?Waqfet Banat?, a book from ASWAT, ILGA, 6/15/10: http://ilga.org/ilga/en/article/mtsgd7F17w (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
?Waqfet Banat? is a sincere narration of personal stories shared by Arab Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LBTQI) women; stories we were often unable to share with those closest to us.
(PDF - 84 Kb) Document Date: 15 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 36)
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