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In Jamaica, fatal attacks push homophobia into the open- By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times - www.boston.com- 01/16/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
When gay rights activist Brian Williamson was stabbed to death in June, and jubilant crowds danced around his mutilated body, police said he had been a robbery victim.<br.,br>
When Jamaican dancehall music artists got bumped from US and British concert appearances this fall for lyrics encouraging the killing of gays, people here called the censure a failure to respect free speech.<br><br>
When Human Rights Watch issued a withering condemnation of homophobia in Jamaica in November and accused police and politicians of condoning rights abuses, government spokesmen rejected the report as lies and nonsense, and a senior police official called for sedition charges to be brought against its authors.
(PDF - 143 Kb) Document Date: 16 Jan 2005 (Downloads: 341)
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Iraqi gays still hunted down- Author: Youssef (Morocco) , www.mideastyouth.com- 02/20/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Apparently, Iraqi gays are still being murdered by murderous wacko-Islamic radicals. <br><br>And according to Ali Hili, leader of an Iraqi gay-rights group, some ministers of the Iraqi government are ?colluding with death squads responsible for the ?sexual cleansing? of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) Iraqis?
(PDF - 132 Kb) Document Date: 20 Feb 2007 (Downloads: 294)
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Jamaica-US State DepartmentCountry Reports on Human Rights Practices-2005-03/08/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 105 Kb) Document Date: 8 Mar 2006 (Downloads: 365)
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Jamaica: Battybwoys affi dead? [?Faggots have to die?]- Amnesty International 05/17/04 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
?Battybwoys affi dead? [?Faggots have to die?]: Action against Homophobia in Jamaica <br><br>In January 2004, around 30,000 people attended a huge stage show and Rastafarian celebration, Rebel Salute, in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. Some of Jamaica?s most celebrated artists were present. Throughout the night, Capleton, Sizzla and others sang almost exclusively about gay men. Using the derogatory terms for gay men - ?chi chi men? or ?battybwoys? they urged the audience to ?kill dem, battybwoys haffi dead, gun shots pon dem? who want to see dem dead put up his hand? (kill them, gay men have got to die, gun shots in their head, whoever wants to see them dead, put up your hand).<br><br>
The problem of homophobia in Jamaica goes far beyond song-artists however. Reports of violence regularly meted out to members of the LGBT community have reached such an extent that they have started to attract international headlines. Action is needed on a much wider scale to systematically tackle the prejudice that inspires the attacks and the laws which encourage them.
(PDF - 341 Kb) Document Date: 17 Feb 2004 (Downloads: 369)
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Jamaica: Parliament refuses to consider decriminalizing homosexuality- radiojamaica.com- 06/21/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Parliament is again being urged to repeal the laws outlawing buggery and prostitution.<br><br> Members of the Parliamentary Committee have made it clear that they will not decriminalize homosexuality under the proposed Charter of Rights but that did not stop the National AIDS Committee from asking.
(PDF - 314 Kb) Document Date: 21 Jun 2006 (Downloads: 403)
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Jamaica: The Most Homophobic Place on Earth? Time World by Tim Padgett/ Kingston- 01/12/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
In the past two years, two of the island's most prominent gay activists, Brian Williamson and Steve Harvey, have been murdered ? and a crowd even celebrated over Williamson's mutilated body. Perhaps most disturbing, many anti-gay assaults have been acts of mob violence.
(PDF - 98 Kb) Document Date: 12 Apr 2006 (Downloads: 374)
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Jamaican Students Riot, Trying To Kill Gay Student- www.africanveil.org- 04/01/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Students at University of the West Indies rioted as police attempted to protect a gay student and escort him from the campus.<br><br>
The Daily Gleaner reports that the student had been chased across the Mona campus by another student who claimed the gay man had attempted to proposition him in a washroom.
(PDF - 108 Kb) Document Date: 6 Apr 2006 (Downloads: 311)
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LGBT rights in Jamaica- Wikipedia- last revised 11/28/08 (Afghanistan)
LGBT (Lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender) rights in Jamaica are dominated by the prohibition of sexual acts between men. Sexual acts between women are legal, by virtue of the absence of any reference to them in law. Sex between men is punishable with up to ten years jail.[1]
Social leaders in Jamaica accuse international groups of meddling in domestic affairs. They defend laws against homosexuality as upholding Christian values.
(PDF - 137 Kb) Document Date: 28 Nov 2008 (Downloads: 604)
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Man Chased by bashers drowns- Rex Wockner International News # 611- 01/09/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A Jamaican gay man, Nokia Cowen, drowned
Dec. 28 after he jumped into Kingston?s harbor
while being chased by gay-bashers, according to the
Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays,
the country?s best-known gay group.
(PDF - 27 Kb) Document Date: 9 Jan 2006 (Downloads: 332)
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Obscured existence of homosexuality and transsexuality inside Kurdish culture; Case studies of Gays and lesbians in Kurdistan and diaspora.- By Kameel Ahmady - www.iraqupdates.com- 11/08/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This ethnographic paper try to give an anthropological perspective on the all too obscured existence of homosexuality and transsexuality inside Kurdish culture. While this has always existed within Kurdish, as any other society, cultural norms mean that it has at the same time been kept as an ?open secret?; everyone knows it happens, but nobody talks about the controversial subject. Because of this unwillingness to treat the topic, transgender and homosexual people in Kurdish society have never been given a recognised role. This also has a great deal to do with conventional gender roles; although male homosexuality has been informally known about, if not discussed, lesbianism and transsexuality is much less tolerated, even informally. But with the rise of feminism for Kurdish women, they are now experiencing their sexuality too through this paradigm. There is a scarcity of written records about the issue of homosexuality in Kurdish society as well, although there have been attempts by Kurdish or non-Kurdish writers to research this cultural taboo. This leaves little documentation to reference. As Kurdish society in all parts of Kurdistan and throughout diaspora struggles ? sometimes violently - with modernity and the changing gender roles which follow, there remains a big challenge to the acceptance of open practice of sexual freedom. In what follows I show some case studies of individuals whom I interviewed for this research, and explore their motivations and practices of homosexuality, as well as the ways they see themselves viewed in Kurdish society.
(PDF - 177 Kb) Document Date: 8 Nov 2007 (Downloads: 258)
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Pakistan: Situation of homosexuals, including the application of laws towards homosexuals, the number of prosecutions of homosexuals and their outcomes; whether any regions have an open and active gay community - Citation / Document Symbol PAK102660.E www.unhcr.org/refworld/ 11/29/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Pakistan: Situation of homosexuals, including the application of laws towards homosexuals, the number of prosecutions of homosexuals and their outcomes; whether any regions have an open and active gay community, 29 November 2007. PAK102660.E. Online. UNHCR Refworld, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4784def1c.html [accessed 2 December 2008]
(PDF - 263 Kb) Document Date: 29 Nov 2007 (Downloads: 214)
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Tajiskistan: Central Asia: Gays Say Tolerance Improving, But Still Long Way to Go - By Antoine Blua, www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/ 01/23/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Sexual relations between men were considered a crime in the Soviet Union, punishable by up to five years in jail. Of the five independent Central Asian states, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan have decriminalized homosexuality, but only Kazakh and Kyrgyz gays say their conditions have improved. But as RFE/RL reports, those who decide to go public say they still face discrimination at work and in society, as well as abuse from police.
(PDF - 122 Kb) Document Date: 23 Jan 2005 (Downloads: 292)
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US Embassy in Jamaica Must End Silence on Gay Murders- Michael Pretelis 01/08/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2006/01/us-embassy-in-jamaica-must-end-silence.html<br><br>As you probably know, three gay Jamaicans have recently been murdered in Jamaica. Brian Williamson, murdered in June 2004; Steve Harvey, killed in November 2005, and Nokia Cowen, murdered at the end of December 2005. So far, the law enforcement authorities in Jamaica have failed to identify and apprehend those responsible for the deaths of Harvey and Cowen.
(PDF - 193 Kb) Document Date: 8 Jan 2006 (Downloads: 350)
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Argentina: Los Códigos de la discriminación- Codes of discrimination- By Marco Bustamante- 11/28/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
El trabajo denominado Informe Federal sobre Códigos de Faltas y Contravencionales "El Disciplinamiento Social de la Sexualidad" fue elaborado y presentado por Juan Pablo Parchuc del Área Queer de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, La Federación Argentina de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Trans (FALGBT) representada por María Rachid, Marcela Romero por la Asociación de Travestis, Transexuales y Transegéneros de Argentina (ATTTA) y el INADI en la figura de su presidenta María José Lubertino.<br><br>
The work designated Federal Report of Codes of Offenses and Violations "The Social System of Sexuality" was produced and presented by Juan Palbo Parhcuc of the Queer Area of the University of Buenos Aires, The Argentine Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Trans (FALGBT) represented by María Rachid, Marcela Romero of the Association of Transvestites, Transexulals and Transgenders of Argentina (ATTTA) and INADI (The National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism) in the figure of its president María José Lubertino.
(PDF - 208 Kb) Document Date: 28 Nov 2008 (Downloads: 273)
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Chile: HISTORICO: CARABINEROS LANZA CARTILLA PARA COMBATIR LA HOMOFOBIA Y TRANFOBIA EN SUS FILAS - Historic: Police launch primer to fight homophobia and transphobia in its ranks- www.opusgay.cl- 12/01/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Durante más de un año el Movilh luchó para que la policía uniformada editara una cartilla que sensibilizara sobre el fenómeno de la discriminación. Tras trabajar la idea con Carabineros, hoy el sueño es realidad y marca uno de los más importantes hitos en la historia de las fuerzas del orden y del movimiento chileno de lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transexuales y transgéneros.<br><br>
For more than a year Movilh fought so that uniformed police would edit a brochure which sensitizes about the phenomenon of discrimination. After working the idea with Carabineros, today the dream is a reality and marks one of the most important threads in the history of the forces of order and the Chilean movement of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transexuals and transgenders.
(PDF - 223 Kb) Document Date: 1 Dec 2008 (Downloads: 256)
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Chile: Homofobia: Santiago supera a Sao Paulo y Río - Homophobia: Santiago surpasses Sao Paulo and Rio- by Antonio Valencia www.lanacion.cl 11/27/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Estudio revela que los índices de maltrato y discriminación son de los más altos de la región. En Chile, ocho de cada diez encuestados ha sufrido alguna forma de violencia debido a su orientación sexual.
(PDF - 125 Kb) Document Date: 27 Nov 2008 (Downloads: 254)
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China: Belgian TV journalist and his crew assaulted while reporting on Aids- www.chinafreepress.org- 11/29/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The TV team were due to meet yesterday with several NGOs who look after Aids patients. Police and local authorities, who were apparently tipped off about the interviews, banned those working for the organisations from talking to the journalist, a VRT spokesperson said.
(PDF - 36 Kb) Document Date: 29 Nov 2008 (Downloads: 240)
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Colombia: Sobre la diversidad en un país en guerra- About the divesity of a country at war- www.elespectador.com- 11/26/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Aren't there guarantees in Colombia to carry out the Human Rights of the LGBT community (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transsgendrs)? Don't they exist in order to validate the rights of the citizens in general? The sentence is from Bill Fairbaim, member of a Canadian organization which supports minority communities, who was in the capital this week participating in the international seminar, "Human Rights, sexual diversity and politics of state?" Fairbaim spoke with "El Espectador" about the situation of LGBT people in Colombia.<br><br> ¿No es que en Colombia no haya garantías para hacer cumplir los Derechos Humanos de la comunidad LGBT (Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Transgeneristas)? ¿No las hay para hacer valer los derechos de los ciudadanos en general?. La frase es de Bill Fairbairn, integrante de una organización canadiense que apoya a las comunidades minoritarias, quien estuvo esta semana en la capital participando en el seminario internacional ?Derechos Humanos, diversidad sexual y políticas de Estado?. Fairbairn habló con El Espectador sobre la situación de las personas LGBT en Colombia.
(PDF - 83 Kb) Document Date: 26 Nov 2008 (Downloads: 352)
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Homosexuality: halal?- Tomas Mowlam- www.london-student.net- 12/01/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Despite being a methodical sociologist, Dr Yip was keen to hammer home the human aspect of his work: ?At the end of the day it?s about people. Whatever you think, we shouldn?t just reduce people to their sexuality. Let us not reduce people to a part, let us not pigeon-hole them or reduce them to a category, let us recognise and appreciate the diversity.?<br><br>
Rowena Razaq, a SOAS history student, proudly agreed, saying, ?I?m not a Muslim-Lesbian and neither am I Lesbian-Muslim, I happen to be both.? Despite the obvious conflict between current interpretations of Islam and being gay, she was keen to point out ?I don?t think my sexuality makes me any less of a Muslim.? Hana Raizuddin alspo agreed, saying, ?my identity is made up of a lot of things. It?s Muslim, it?s British and it?s Pakistani, and it?s bisexual.?
(PDF - 555 Kb) Document Date: 1 Dec 2008 (Downloads: 283)
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India: Press Release, Strongly condemning the actions of Karnataka State health and police officials, that are fuelling the spread of HIV-AIDS- kswu.blogspot.com 12/01/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Health Department in Ramnagara District spreads misinformation against homosexuals making them further vulnerable to HIV infection: District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit, Ramanagara District and District Health and Family Welfare Officer, Ramanagara District have conducted the World AIDS Day program today in Ramanagra town and have spread the misinformation against homosexuals through public distribution of leaflets. Excerpts from the leaflet include ?salingakama: HIV, AIDSge rahadhaari? (meaning ? Homosexuality: Highway to HIV, AIDS), ?salingakaamigalinda dhooraviri? (meaning ? Stay away from Homosexuals) and warns people to stay away from homosexuals as a way to prevent AIDS. This messages spread prejudice, stigma and discrimination against homosexuals and make them further vulnerable to HIV infection. This is completely opposite to the strategy of National AIDS Control Program, which seeks to fight stigma and discrimination against homosexuals and support their human rights as a strategy to reduce their vulnerability to HIV infection. It is shocking that local health authorities are doing harm to HIV-AIDS program in Karnataka whereas Ms. K. Sujatha Rao (Director General of National AIDS Control Program) and Mr. Anbumani Ramodass (Union health minister) are in the forefront vocally demanding the decimalization of homosexual sex between consenting adults. To prevent AIDS, we need to reach out to homosexuals and support efforts for their health and human rights.
(PDF - 154 Kb) Document Date: 1 Dec 2008 (Downloads: 391)
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