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Malaysia- Sodomylaws.org 11/24/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
* Statute: Section 377 of the Malaysian Penal Code: Unnatural Offences<br>
* Penalty: 20 years/caning and fine<br>
* Restrictions: None
(PDF - 127 Kb) Document Date: 24 Nov 2007 (Downloads: 411)
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Malaysia: Penang police arrests 70 at 4 raids- News Editor, www.fridae.com-= 11/03/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The police in the northern Malaysian state of Penang have arrested 70 men including locals, Americans, Europeans and a Chinese national on Saturday night following a raid at a gay sauna on the mainland, and a gay sauna and two massage parlors in Georgetown on Penang island.<br>,br>
[PIC]The Star newspaper reported on Monday that the police had stumbled on the parties while on a "blitz to weed out vice activities" while the raid in Seberang Jaya near Butterworth was based on public tip-offs.
(PDF - 82 Kb) Document Date: 3 Nov 2008 (Downloads: 500)
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SENEGAL : Belgian jailed for gay marriage - From correspondents in Dakar, PERTH NOW (powered by SUNDAY TIMES) - 08/29/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
SENEGAL has jailed a Belgian retiree and his male Senegalese domestic helper for two years for "homosexual marriage and acts against nature", their lawyer said today.<br><BR> Richard Lambot, 61, and Moustapha Gueye, 63, who wedded in Belgium - where civil gay marriage is legal - last month, were sentenced by the Dakar regional court on August 21, said lawyer Seyni Ndione.
(PDF - 56 Kb) Document Date: 29 Aug 2008 (Downloads: 523)
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SENEGAL : Persecuted in Africa, Finding Refuge in New York - Article Tools Sponsored By By KIRK SEMPLE and LYDIA POLGREEN - 10/05/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
In February, a Senegalese magazine published photographs of what was reported to be an underground gay marriage and said that Mr. Mbaye, who appeared in the photos and is gay himself, had organized the event. In the ensuing six months, Mr. Mbaye said, he was harassed by the police, attacked by armed mobs, driven from his home, maligned in the national media and forced to live on the run across West Africa.<BR><BR> In July, the United States government gave him refugee status, one of the rare instances when such protection has been granted to a foreigner facing persecution based on sexual orientation. A month later, Mr. Mbaye arrived in New York, eventually moving into a small furnished room in the Bronx that rents for $150 per week. It has a bed, air-conditioner, television, cat and pink walls.
(PDF - 427 Kb) Document Date: 5 Oct 2008 (Downloads: 312)
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Senegal's gay community confronts social taboos - By UN media IRIN - 01/21/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The meeting-place was at a noisy down-market street cafe? where the waiter as well as the clients were gay, but where everyone was staunchly pretending not to be. Senegal's homosexual men are peeping out from behind the mask, but social and religious taboos run strong.
(PDF - 93 Kb) Document Date: 21 Jan 2005 (Downloads: 266)
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ZAMBIA : Man caught with gay sex toys at Lusaka international airport - Report by ndanji, African Veil - 04/08/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
I was asked what business I was doing and if I was married, If I was married they also wanted proof and I told them I was not a business man and was single, then one officer a comment saying 'Yakumbuyo' meaning to say behind business, it's a very common term used for gay people, and the other office said if it was a woman with these things it would be ok.<BR><BR> Then I realised that they knew I was gay but my main concern was how was I going to get out of this mess, knowing the law in Zambia regarding Homosexuals, I then decided to negotiate with them and by that I mean digging into my pockets for cash so as to get out of there before other officers came in.
(PDF - 204 Kb) Document Date: 8 Apr 2007 (Downloads: 293)
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Zambia: Government treatment of homosexuals in Zambia, and its attitudes towards gay organisations; protection or support available from human rights groups - This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) - 04/08/03 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The Zambia Human Rights Report for 1998 indicates that a Zambian man, Francis Chisambisha, was "expelled from Chipembi Farm College where he was pursuing a course in agriculture," after publicly acknowledging his homosexual status to the Zambian newspaper, The Post (Afronet Feb. 1999).<BR><BR> The formation of an organisation called Lesbians, Gays and Transgender Persons Association (LEGATRA), "attracted huge protests from some sections of the Zambian community" (ibid.). Furthermore, "President Chiluba repeatedly lashed out at the group, describing homosexuality as immoral and ungodly" (ibid.).
(PDF - 95 Kb) Document Date: 8 Apr 2003 (Downloads: 268)
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Zambia: Treatment of homosexuals by society and government authorities; (2005 - July 2007) - Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ottawa - 10/10/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Section 157 states that<br><br> Any male person who, whether in public or in private, commits any act of gross indecency with another male person, or procures another male person to commit any act of gross indecency with him, or attempts to procure the commission of any such act by any male person with himself or with another male person, whether in public or in private, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years. [As amended by No. 26 of 1933] (ibid.; BTM n.d.a)
(PDF - 120 Kb) Document Date: 10 Oct 2007 (Downloads: 300)
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Zambian Prisoners routinely raped by prison warders - Report by Ndanji chola from Africanveil - 07/24/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Muganda, aged 26, years tells us more on what's happening inside one of Zambia's male prisons."I have been inside in this prison for almost two years and my crime was to do with robbery. Anyway, having arrived at this prison, it was about getting to know what life is like with other inmates; What I discovered was more shocking than what I expected.<br><br> Prisons are known to the outside people as places where murders, rapists, robbers etc are kept, but to us inmates it's a home that makes your life change be it better or worse. Inside the prison we have same-sex couples, Husbands and Husbands, we have gangs, 'tribes', or clans, or whatever you would call them, for friendship, support, protection and sexual release - which can be mutual affection or rape. The prison warders have a big involvement in this situation.
(PDF - 163 Kb) Document Date: 24 Jul 2006 (Downloads: 263)
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Ghana Current Update SO (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 8,636 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2002 (Downloads: 400)
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India: Towards decriminalisation of a sexual choice- The LGBT community sees Section 377 of the IPC as a major obstacle to their possible integration into mainstream society - www.hinduonnet.com- 10/22/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Bangalore: Harassment of the sexuality minority community, particularly by the police, is not uncommon in Bangalore.<br><br>
In fact, the submission of the petitioners in the ongoing case in the Delhi High Court (Naz Foundation Vs. Government of Delhi and others) seeking decriminalised status for sexuality minorities, cites two cases from Bangalore of arbitrary arrest, illegal detention and custodial torture of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) persons in 2004 and 2006. A fact-finding report published by the People?s Union of Civil Liberties (in 2003 and 2005) on the human rights violations against the transgender community in Bangalore carries testimonials that narrate unspeakable brutality and abuse suffered by them, particularly at the hands of the police.<br><br>
The most recent example of this intolerance happened as recently as Monday. The Banashankari police on Monday arrested five transsexuals for alleged ?extortion? of money from vehicle riders on the road. Two of five volunteers of the support group Sangama, who went to inquire about the arrest, were allegedly stripped and beaten by the police. When more Sangama activists led by Manohar protested the action, the police allegedly beat them with lathis and later booked cases against 32 activists for allegedly obstructing them from doing their duty.
(PDF - 339 Kb) Document Date: 22 Oct 2008 (Downloads: 262)
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Uganda: Ssempa rewarded for anti-gay crusade- By Joyce Namutebi, www.newvision.co.ug- 09/14/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
He said homosexuality was one way of making the world extinct.<br><br>
?When men marry each other and women marry women, clans and tribes become extinct,? Mitala noted.
(PDF - 55 Kb) Document Date: 14 Sep 2008 (Downloads: 265)
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Barbados health minister calls for more gay-friendly laws- www.cbc.bb- 10/30/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Barbados' Health Minister Dr. David Estwick Thursday said regional politicians should not be afraid to address controversial issues related to HIV/AIDS.<br><br>
He said legislation criminalising homosexuality and prostitution in the Caribbean region were among difficult issues that the political directorate must take up urgently.<br><br>
Social advocates and others have said that most men who have sex with men and were HIV-positive positive continue to remain in the closet and are reluctant to seek medical attention because of the legislation barrier and because they feared discrimination.
(PDF - 184 Kb) Document Date: 30 Oct 2008 (Downloads: 392)
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Guatemala: Action Alert-Demand an Investigation into Attack on "Our Gay Beauty" Event - IGLHRC 10/31/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Summary<br>
On October 18, 2008, two Guatemalan organizations-Amigos contra el Sida and Asociación Gay de Samayac-organized an event called "Our Gay Beauty" in Samayac Suchitepéquez. The event itself was focused on HIV prevention in the context of the campaign by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS. During the evening, someone threw a tear gas bomb into the space where the event was being held. While no one was seriously injured, people fainted, children became excessively tearful, and everyone was affected by the fumes. This is the second time this year that tear gas bombs have been used to attack events held by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community.<br><br>
Among the rights violated in this case are:<br><br>
* The right to liberty and security of the person<br>
* The right to be protected as a human rights defender<br>
* The right to be free from violence<br>
* The right to freedom of expression<br>
* The right to effective remedy
(PDF - 81 Kb) Document Date: 31 Oct 2008 (Downloads: 267)
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India: Do you think gay people should be imprisoned?- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
On this pertinent human rights issue, India is out of step with nations like South Africa, USA, UK, the whole of Europe and South America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea. India?s discriminatory stand clubs her with unprogressive countries like Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Cases of homophobic police officers using Article 377 to create obstacles for legitimate HIV prevention has been so rampant that the UN and Human Rights Watch have sent directives to the government regarding this.
(PDF - 73 Kb) Document Date: 10 Oct 2008 (Downloads: 374)
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Chronic Indifference: HIV/AIDS Services for Immigrants Detained by the United States- HRW 12/30/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
http://hrw.org/reports/2007/us1207/<br><br>
I. Executive Summary...............................................................................................1 <br>
II. Recommendations...............................................................................................4 <br>
III. Background.........................................................................................................7 <br>
IV. Methodology.....................................................................................................16 <br>
V. Findings.............................................................................................................19 <br>
VIII. Conclusion.....................................................................................................63 <br>
Acknowledgements................................................................................................64 <br>
Appendix...............................................................................................................65 <br><br>
The death of Victoria Arellano in federal immigration custody is an extreme, but not
surprising, example of the suffering experienced by immigration detainees with
HIV/AIDS. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fails to collect basic
information to monitor immigrant detainees with HIV/AIDS, has sub-standard
policies and procedures for ensuring appropriate HIV/AIDS care and services, and
inadequately supervises the care that is provided. The consequence of this willful
indifference is poor care, untreated infection, increased risk of resistance to HIV
medications, and even death.
(PDF - 442 Kb) Document Date: 30 Dec 2007 (Downloads: 284)
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Dominican Republic: Benito critica bodas entre homosexuales- Benito critizises weddings among homosexuals- Por Juan Julio Gómez / elcaribecdn.com- www.elcaribecdn.com.do- 09/04/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
El secretario de la Conferencia del Episcopado Dominicano, monseñor Ramón Benito Ángeles, criticó el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo, al tiempo que definió como una ?aberración? de quienes promueven esa práctica.<br><br>
El sacerdote insistió en que las bodas entre ?homosexuales? deben ser rechazadas, debido a que atentan contra la moral y la buena costumbre.<br><br>
Criticó a las naciones que promueven el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo, a las que definió como ?aberrantes?.<br><br>
The Secretary of the Conference of the Dominican Diocese, Monsignor Ramón Benito Angeles, criticized marriage between two people of the same sex, at the same time he defined it as an "aberration" on the part of those who promote this practice.<br><br>
The priest insisted that the weddings between "homosexuals" ought to be denied, owing to the fact that it is a crime against the moral and decent custom.<br><br>
He criticized the countries which promote marriage between people of the same sex, which he defined as aberrant.
(PDF - 71 Kb) Document Date: 4 Sep 2008 (Downloads: 286)
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Dominican Republic: Restringen tratamientos para enfermos VIH, según informe- According to report, treatment for HIV patients has been restricted- www.diariolibre.com/ 09/22/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
SD. La falta de documentación se ha convertido en otro obstáculo para que las personas que viven con el Virus de Inmunodeficiencia Humana (VIH) reciban un tratamiento adecuado.<br><br>
Un informe dado a conocer por la Red Nacional de Jóvenes viviendo con VIH y Sida (REDNAJCER), señala que a partir de abril de este año las autoridades gubernamentales ordenaron que para recibir atención sanitaria en los centros de tratamiento es obligatorio presentar la cédula de identidad.<br><br>
"Una medida extremadamente controversial y potencialmente discriminatoria que podría restringir aun más el limitado acceso a los tratamientos para el VIH y a otros servicios sanitarios", indica el informe.<br><br>
S.D. The lack of documentation has become another obstacle for those who live with HIV in receiving adequate treatment.<br><br>
A report made known by the National Network of Youth living with HIV/AIDS (REDNAJCER), shows that at the beginning of April of this year, the governmental authorities ordered that in order to receive medical attention in the treatment centers, it is necessary to present an ID card.<br><br>
"An extremely controversial measure and potentially discriminatory which could restrict even more the limited access to treatment for HIV as well as other health services, " indicates the report.
(PDF - 60 Kb) Document Date: 22 Sep 2008 (Downloads: 302)
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Gays cierran día del orgullo- Gays close gay pride day-Por José Rafael Sosa, www.elnacional.com.do- 06/29/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Ser gay, lesbiana o transexual en este país es un asunto de valentía, pues día a día nos vemos expuestos al maltrato físico y verbal, a la indiferencia y a los atropellos de parte de policías, autoridades religiosas y del Gobierno , así como de los ciudadanos comunes que asumen que por nuestra orientación sexual somos menos personas, menos dominicanos", dijo Benítez.<br><br>
"To be gay, lesbian or transsexual in this country is a matter of bravery, since from day to day we see ourselves exposed to physical and verbal mistreatment, to indifference and to abuse on the part of the police, religious authorities and the Government, the same as with the common citizens who assume that because of our sexual orientation we are less as people, as Dominicans," said Benitez.
(PDF - 84 Kb) Document Date: 29 Jun 2008 (Downloads: 290)
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Mexico: Arrestan a gays por besarse en la frente en Q. Roo- Gays arrested for kissing on the forehead in Q. Roo- www.eluniversal.com.mx- 10/22/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A gay couple, US citizens who reside in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo,were arrested and jailed for 15 hours for having kissed in public. <br><br> Una pareja homosexual de ciudadanos estadounidenses que residen en Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, denunció que fueron arrestados y encarcelados durante 15 horas hasta que pagaron una fianza de dos mil pesos por abrazarse y besarse en la vía pública. Los policías municipales argumentaron que "es una falta a la moral".<br>
Eric Schroeder, de 22 años de edad, hijo de madre estadounidense, y el puertorriqueño José Méndez, de 35, aseguraron que cerca de las 22:30 de la noche del pasado 10 de octubre fueron detenidos por integrantes de la Policía Municipal de Playa del Carmen, cuando en casa de uno de ellos se despedían.
(PDF - 79 Kb) Document Date: 22 Oct 2008 (Downloads: 238)
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