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VI Informe de DDHH de las Minorías Sexuales Chilenas arrojó aumento de denuncias por discriminación - VI Chilean Sexual Minorities Human Rights Report shows increase on discrimination complaints. www.movilh.cl 03/06/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
El estudio del Movilh fue lanzado en compañía de ex policías civiles y uniformados gays, de una profesora lesbiana y de una sobrina de una persona transexual asesinada, todos víctimas de la homofobia y transfobia. El estudio criticó duramente a dos ministerios y al Senado por desaprovechar los cambios culturales favorables a lo no discriminación.
(PDF - 232 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2008 (Downloads: 355)
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Diagnostico del Marco Juridico Guatemalteco sobre VIH/SIDA Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos Diagnosis of the Legal Guatemalan Frame on HIV/AIDS Interamerican Human Rights Institute 11/30/03 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Rubén Mayorga
Víctor Hugo Fernández
Consultores
Contenido<br><br>
Introducción <br>
I. Análisis del contenido de las leyes<br>
II. Análisis de las políticas, las prácticas institucionales y la jurisprudencia<br>
III. Hallazgos principales en los grupos focales realizados con organizaciones de la sociedad civil, entidades gubernamentales, instituciones autónomas y personas que viven con VIH/SIDA, sobre la ley y las actitudes frente al VIH/SIDA<br>
IV. Recomendaciones <br>
(PDF - 900 Kb) Document Date: 30 Nov 2003 (Downloads: 363)
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Action: AI on Iran - www.outfrontseattle.org 1/30/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
On 2 January 2008, Qods, a national daily newspaper in Iran, reported that the sentences of the two men had been confirmed by the Supreme Court, and sent for implementation, and that four other men had been convicted by Branch 2 of the Fars Criminal Court to 100 lashes each, in connection with the same case. The six men were accused of having abducted two young men in the city of Arsanjan, to the east of Shiraz, whom they harassed and whose property they stole before allegedly raping them.
(PDF - 25 Kb) Document Date: 30 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 528)
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Boletina de Medios LGBT EN AMERICA LATINA, ESPANA Y ESTADOS UNIDOS-BRASIL-LGBT News Bulletin in Latin America, Spain and the USA-Lideres em Direitos Humanos GLBT sofrem ataques homofóbicos - GLBT Human Rights Leaders suffer homophobic attacks. 3/16/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Lideres em Direitos Humanos GLBT sofrem ataques homofóbicos<br><br>
GLBT Human Rights Leaders suffer homophobic attacks.<br><br>
In the early morning of March 11, 2006 around 2:30 AM, two activists from the Dignity Group, a Curitiban entity which promotes human rights for gays, lesbians and transgenders/transexuals, Igo Martini and Márcio Marins were brutally attacked.
(PDF - 65 Kb) Document Date: 16 Mar 2006 (Downloads: 485)
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China Blocks Gay Web Site - Rex Wockner- 12/23/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
China's Ministry of Public Security has been blocking www.gaychinese.net since April 11, says site manager Damien Lu. The site, which is run from Los Angeles, was attracting an average of 58,000 visitors a day, mostly from mainland China, Lu said.
(PDF - 20 Kb) Document Date: 23 Dec 2005 (Downloads: 471)
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Chinese police raid gay culture festival-Reuters 12/16/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Chinese police shut down the opening of a gay and lesbian culture festival on Friday, an action participants said highlighted deep-rooted intolerance toward homosexuality.
(PDF - 144 Kb) Document Date: 16 Dec 2005 (Downloads: 451)
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Hong Kong Anti-Sodomy Laws Struck Down-9/7/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The High Court in Hong Kong invalidated the province's laws against sodomy last week, calling them "demeaning to gay men." One of the laws struck down mandated a life sentence if either of the participants were under 21. William Roy Leung, 20, who challenged the law, said "I can finally have a loving relationship without being scared of [being] thrown into jail for life." In the past five years, 63 men were arrested for "gross indecency."
(PDF - 25 Kb) Document Date: 7 Sep 2005 (Downloads: 480)
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Howard Brown Begins HIV Testing in China; Groundbreaking Achievement is First of Its Kind - 4/26/04 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
As the premier LGBT health care organization in the Midwest, Howard Brown Health Cener (HBHC) has been a forerunner in HIV medicine since the disease became rampant in the 1980's. Now, in an ongoing global effort, the Center's "China Project" has taken a significant leap forward this month by staging the first-ever HIV rapid testing and counseling with at-risk communities in China.
(PDF - 86 Kb) Document Date: 26 Apr 2004 (Downloads: 488)
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IV INFORME ANUAL DE DDHH DE LAS MINORIAS SEXUALES CHILENAS-MOVILH-Chilean Sexual Minorities IV Human Rights Annual Report 2/14/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
MOVILH ARROJA AUMENTO DE CASOS DE DISCRIMINACION Y ADVIERTE SOBRE POLITIZACION DE LA HOMOFOBIA EN EL 2005
Movimiento de integración y liberación homosexual<br><br>Chilean Movement for Integration and Liberation of Gays and Lesbians
MOVILH Sheds Light on the Increase of Cases of Discrimination and Warns About the Politicization of Homophobia in 2005<br><br>
*Accusations of homophobia increased 26%<br><br>
*In 2005 an unpublished politicization of homophobia was recorded in Chile, but at the same time is is the most fruitful year in the solidification of goals on the part of the homosexual movement.
(PDF - 266 Kb) Document Date: 14 Feb 2006 (Downloads: 467)
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Jamaican LGBT organization does not want potential tourists to boycott the island (J-FLAG) 3/2/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Dear All,
In light of the challenges being faced by the LGBT community in Jamaica, a number of you have called for a tourist boycott of the island. Like you, J-FLAG has been deeply frustrated at the slow progress towards transforming the social climate that makes it difficult for gays and lesbians in Jamaica to lead lives free from homophobic violence.
(PDF - 20 Kb) Document Date: 2 Mar 2008 (Downloads: 389)
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Kidnaped: Another Gay Iranian Torture Victim Tells HIs Horrifying Story-1/18/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Gay City News<br><br>
As the Islamic Republic of Iran's lethal anti-gay pogrom- the government's intense persecutions of its own citizens for homosexuality - continues, the victims of this oppression, despite great obstacles, continue to try to flee from the largest religious prison in the world to tell the story of the inhuman treatment they have suffered.
(PDF - 229 Kb) Document Date: 18 Jan 2006 (Downloads: 495)
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Kidnapped: Another Gay Iranian Torture Victim Tells HIs Horrifying Story - 1/18/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
As the Islamic Republic of Iran's lethal anti-gay pogorm - the government's intense persecutions of its own citizens for homosexuality - continues, the victims of this oppression, despite great obstacles, continue to try to flee from the largest religious prison in the world to tell the story of the inhuman treatment they have suffered.
(PDF - 229 Kb) Document Date: 18 Jan 2006 (Downloads: 488)
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Living with HIV/AIDS in China -Doctorswithoutborders.org 11/21/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Of all the challenges Doctors Without Borders/Médecins San Frontiéres (MSF) faces treating HIV/AIDS in China, perhaps none is as daunting as the pervasive stigma surrounding the disease.<br><br>
"Before I had AIDS I worked in an office", said 40-year old D> "When they found ut I had the disease, they fired me on the spot. Now I face difficulties from family, friends, and society."
(PDF - 319 Kb) Document Date: 21 Nov 2005 (Downloads: 530)
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Mexico: Asesinan con saña a homosexual en Guerrero-A homosexual is viciously killed in Guerrero- Anodis.com 2/16/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A Homosexual is Viciously Murdered in Guerrero.
The lifeless body of a man was found face down, with bruises and the hands tied; all evidence points to a hate crime.<br><br> Asesinan con saña a homosexual en Guerrero
El cuerpo sin vida de un hombre fue encontrado boca abajo, con golpes y las manos atadas; todo parece indicar que se trató de un crimen de odio por homofobia. La víctima era portadora del VIH. Organizaciones LGBT piden una solución al caso.
(PDF - 22 Kb) Document Date: 26 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 364)
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Mexico: Hallan dos muertos vestidos de mujer- Two dead men dressed as women are found-El Sol de Bajio- www.oem.com.mx by Mario Acosta- 01/22/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The bodies of two men dressed in women's clothing were found dead on a road near the fairgrounds. Until now, the motive for the murders in unknown.<br><br> Los cuerpos de dos
hombres vestidos con ropa de mujer
fueron encontrados sin vida en un
camino parcelario cercano a los
terrenos del recinto ferial. Hasta el
momento se desconoce el móvil del
homicidio, sin embargo se dio a
conocer que los cadáveres
presentaban severas lesiones en la
cabeza, ocasionados probablemente
por golpes repetitivos con algún objeto
contundente.
(PDF - 94 Kb) Document Date: 22 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 482)
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Mexico: Recurrentes violaciones a derechos de transexuales- Recurring transexual's rights violacions- www.milenio.com 03/03/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Registro de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal
Recurrentes violaciones a derechos de transexuales<br><br>
Recibió la CDHDF diez quejas por presuntos abusos hacia este sector de la población. La PGJDF, reclusorios y el Metro, instancias involucradas en las irregularidades.
(PDF - 282 Kb) Document Date: 3 Mar 2008 (Downloads: 380)
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Neo Nazi Skinheads Blamed for Transgender Murder- www.gaynewswatch.com 12/29/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Police in Puente Alto have launched an aggressive search into the whereabouts of a neo-Nazi group
blamed for brutally beating and stabbing to death a transsexual in this suburb of Santiago, Chile. La
Nacion newspaper is reporting that Gabriel Albornoz Jimenez, 27, known as Alejandra, died in hospital
while being treated for body blows and a stab wound to the heart.
(PDF - 172 Kb) Document Date: 29 Feb 2008 (Downloads: 414)
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Peru: Denuncian desabastecimiento de Antiretrovirales en Hospital Rebagliatti- Lack of retrovirals is denounced at the Rebagliatti hospital- Diario de Lima Gay 3/3/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
No es la primera vez que este importante hospital del Seguro Social se encuentra desabastecido de ARV lo que es una muestra del desinterés de parte de las autoridades del nosocomio para solucionar el problema, ocasionado por no realizar a tiempo ni en cantidad suficiente las compras de estos medicamentos.
(PDF - 178 Kb) Document Date: 3 Mar 2008 (Downloads: 390)
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Peru: Protestan porque hospital de Iquitos discrimina y no da atención a travestis- There are protests because the Iquitos hospital discriminates and does not provides services to transgenders - Diario de Lima Gay 3/3/08 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Un grupo de travestis y gays protestaron en la puerta del hospital "Cesar Garayar García" de Iquitos exigiendo respeto a sus derechos y rechazando actos discriminatorios como el ocurrido a Larry Bicerra Saavedra "Fiorella".quien fue impedida de ingresar al nosocomio, para afiliarse al Seguro Integral de Salud (SIS) debido a su apariencia y vestimenta femeninas."Tienes que venir vestido como hombre, le dijeron.
(PDF - 595 Kb) Document Date: 3 Mar 2008 (Downloads: 345)
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PINK IS THE NEW CHINA - 8/26/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
In a look at the emerging gay population of China, The Sydney Morning Herald notes that one way they're turning red China pink is in the appropriation of certain very familiar socialist terms as their own. The term "tongzhi", or comrade, has been turned on its head: "in one of the more delightful linguistic subversions of this fast-changing country, the term has been appropriated by China's male homosxeuals to refer to themselves and has spread widely into the general community with the same meaning"
(PDF - 226 Kb) Document Date: 26 Aug 2005 (Downloads: 501)
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