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Panama: Piden ley contra discriminación homosexual-A Law is Sought Against Homosexual Discrimination - by www.tvn-2.com on 04/13/10: http://www.tvn-2.com/noticias/noticias_detalle.asp?id_news=30781 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Beteta dijo que sí hay discriminación por orientación sexual en Panamá, porque algunos ministros han pedido que ?limpien las instituciones de homosexuales y lesbianas?, cosa que la gente no se atreve a denunciar."<br><br>
"Beleta said that if there is discrimination based on sexual orientation in Panama, it is because some ministers have asked that institutions be cleared of homosexuals and lesbians, something whtich the people don't dare denounce."
(PDF - 391 Kb) Document Date: 13 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 38)
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Amid family pressures, gays in China turn to marriages of convenience In China, where homosexuality remains taboo, many gays enter marriages of convenience to satisfy family pressure to wed and have children. While they act like a couple in front of their families, many don't live together.- By Zhang Yajun on www.csmonitor.com/ on 04/13/10: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2010/0413/Amid-family-pressures-gays-in-China-turn-to-marriages-of-convenience (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The pressure to marry is greater in rural areas, such as in Xiaojian?s home village on the outskirts of Beijing, where his relatives and neighbors keep close watch. Stay single too long, and gossip begins to spread about possible physical or mental disabilities. Constant questioning ensues. For some jobs, such as in the military and civil service, marriage is a requirement for promotion. <br><br>
Adding to the pressure to obey, many young adults rely on their parents for financial support. The average Beijing salary of 3,700 yuan (about $550) is barely enough to live on in the increasingly expensive capital.
(PDF - 388 Kb) Document Date: 13 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 38)
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Aumentan las muertes de trans y gays en Honduras- Deaths of trans and gays increase in Honduras/ by www.elheraldo.hn/ on 10/11/09: http://www.elheraldo.hn/layout/set/print/content/view/print/319123 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"El total de víctimas reportados por Cattrachas está basado en reportes noticiosos, comenzando con la muerte a tiros de un transgénero el 30 de junio durante un toque de queda." <br><br> "La violencia y la falta de garantías constitucionales tras los hechos del 28 de junio han dejado un saldo mortal de 15 transgéneros y homosexuales en tan sólo cuatro meses, casi la misma cantidad de travestis asesinados en los últimos cinco años, denunció el lunes una activista hondureña." <br><br> "Cuatro gays y 11 transexuales han muerto desde el 28 de junio, cuando Manuel Zelaya fue derrocado, explicó Indyra Mendoza Aguilar, miembro de la Red Lésbica Cattrachas, con sede en Tegucigalpa, que lleva cuenta de violaciones a los derechos humanos y civiles de homosexuales, lesbianas y transgéneros."<br><br>
"The total number of victims reported by Cattrachas is based on informed reports, beginning with the death by gunshot of a trans-gender on June 30 during a curfew."<br><br>
"The violence and the lack of constitutional guarantees following the incidents of June 28 have left a mortal balance of 15 trans-genders and homosexuals in only four months, almost the same number of transvestites murdered in the last five years, reported a Honduran activist on Monday."<br><br>
"Four gays and 11 transsexuals have died since June 28, when Manuel Zelaya was overrthrown, explained Indyra Mendoza Aguilar, member of the Lesbian Network Cattrachas. with its headquarters in Tegucigalpa, which maintains a count of human and civil rights violations against homosexuals, lesbians and trans-enders."
(PDF - 69 Kb) Document Date: 11 Oct 2009 (Downloads: 35)
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Brazil gay man wins U.S. asylum - By 365gay Newswire on http://www.365gay.com on 02/08/10: http://www.365gay.com/news/brazil-gay-man-wins-u-s-asylum/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"(New York) Columbia Law School?s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic has won asylum for a gay man who feared persecution because of his sexual orientation if forced to return to his native Brazil.
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The grant, issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, comes at a time when conditions for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals in Brazil are becoming more dangerous." <br><br>
"Brazil has one of the highest rates of hate crimes against GLBT people in the world. Grupo Gay da Bahia, the leading GLBT rights organization in Brazil, reports that between 1980 and 2009 there were 2,998 reported murders of homosexuals in Brazil. In 2008 alone, over 190 GLBT people were murdered, and the actual number is likely to be much higher since many of these killings go unreported."
(PDF - 41 Kb) Document Date: 8 Feb 2010 (Downloads: 47)
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Brazil: Gay-Bashing Murders Up 55 Percent - by Fabiana Frayssinet on http://ipsnews.net on 04/22/09: http://ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=46596 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 22 (IPS) - In 2008, 190 homosexuals were killed in Brazil, one every two days, representing a 55 percent increase on the previous year ? a veritable "homocaust" according to gay rights activists. <br><br>
The Annual Report on Murders of Homosexuals, produced by the Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB), says that 64 percent of the victims were gay men, 32 percent were transvestites, and four percent were lesbians. <br><br>
"A transvestite is 259 times more likely to be murdered than a gay man," says the study which is based on media reports, since there are no official statistics on hate crimes in Brazil. <br><br>
The findings in GGB?s 2008 report, which has been cited by institutions like the government?s National Secretariat for Human Rights and the U.S. State Department, are "disturbing," says the head of the gay rights group, Marcelo Cerqueira
(PDF - 105 Kb) Document Date: 22 Apr 2009 (Downloads: 39)
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España concede asilo por discriminación sexual a homosexual colombiano - Spain grants asylum based on sexual discrimination to a Colombinan homosexual- By Manuel Velandia on www.agmagazine.info: http://www.agmagazine.info/2010/04/12/espana-concede-asilo-por-discriminacion-sexual-a-homosexual-colombiano/print/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Manuel Antonio Velandia Mora es un reconocido líder homosexual, cofundador en 1976 del Movimiento de Liberación Homosexual de Colombia, quien luego de un atentado con granada en contra de su vida y de múltiples amenazas de muerte que se extendieron a su familia, decidió huir de su país y solicitar a España el refugio y asilo político por discriminación sexual. La Subdirección General de Asilo, Oficina de Asilo y refugio, de la Dirección General de Política Interior del Ministerio del Interior de España reconoció a Manuel Antonio Velandia Mora la ?condición de refugiado y el derecho de asilo? el pasado 8 de abril."<br><br>
"Manuel Antonio Velandia Mora is a recognized homosexual leader, co-founder in 1976 of the Homosexual Liberation Movement of Colombia, who later, due to an attempt on his life with a grenade and multiple death threats which were made against his family, decided to flee his country and to seek refuge and political asylum in Spain
based on sexual discrimination. The Deputy General of Asylum, Office of Asylum and Refuge, of the General Office of Internal Matters of the Ministry of the Interior of Spain, granted to Manuel Antonio Velandia Mora the "position of refugee and the right of asylum" this past April 8.
(PDF - 125 Kb) Document Date: 12 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 39)
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Sistematización de Hechos de agreción a la comunidad de Lesbianas, Gays Bisexuales y Trans de El Salvador- 2009- by Alianza por la Diversidad Sexual LGBT- 09/30/09 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
En este documento se recogen algunos hechos de agresión sufridos por la comunidad LGBT de El Salvador entre los meses de Enero y Septiembre de 2009./In this document some facts have been gathered regarding aggression suffered by the LGBT Community of El Salvador between the months of January and September, 2009.<br><br>
ÍNDICE/INDEX<br>
Contenido /Table of Contents Páginas/Pages <br>
Introducción/Introduction 3 <br>
Normativa Internacional/International Regulations 5 <br> Otros documentos internacionales/Other International Documents 6 <br> Reforma a la Constitución/ Constitutional Reform 6 <br> Cronología de los hechos/Chronology of the facts 9 <br> Notas de prensa/Press Notes 12 <br> Asesinatos, desapariciones y demás hechos de agresión/Murders, disappearances and other acts of aggression 14 <br> Postura de los diferentes actores/ Position of the different actors 19 Incidencia política de la Alianza por la Diversidad Sexual LGBT/Political Impact of the Alliance for Sexual Diversity 27 <br> El movimiento social y popular/The Popular and Social Movement 29 Conclusiones y recomendacione/Conclusions and Recommendations 30 Anexos /Attached 33
(PDF - 574 Kb) Document Date: 30 Sep 2009 (Downloads: 39)
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Philippines: Bishop hits ruling allowing "Ang Ladlad" to participate in polls - by www.gmanews.tv on 04/19/10: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/188103/bishop-hits-ruling-allowing-ang-ladlad-to-participate-in-polls# (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Caloocan Bishop Deogracias Iniguez said on Saturday allowing a
party-list group for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT)
in Congress is pushing for ?abnormality." <br><br>
?We recognize them, respect them, but their situation is an
abnormality. The person is approving and encouraging an abnormality,
which is unnatural," "
(PDF - 50 Kb) Document Date: 10 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 38)
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Senegal: Even after death, abuse against gays continues - By Associated Press on http://news.bostonherald.com on 04/11/10: (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"THIES, Senegal ? Even death cannot stop the violence against gays in this corner of the world any more. <br><br>
Madieye Diallo?s body had been in the ground for only a few hours when the mob descended on the weedy cemetery with shovels. They yanked out the corpse, spit on its torso, dragged it away and dumped it in front of the home of his elderly parents." <br><br>In the past two years, at least four men suspected of being gay have been exhumed by angry mobs in cemeteries in Senegal. The violence is especially shocking because Senegal, unlike other countries in the region, is considered a model of tolerance. <br><br> "In the last year alone, gay men have been arrested in Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. In Uganda, lawmakers are considering a bill that would sentence homosexuals to life in prison and include capital punishment for "repeat offenders." And in South Africa, the only country that recognizes gay rights, gangs have carried out so-called "corrective" rapes on lesbians."
(PDF - 128 Kb) Document Date: 11 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 36)
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US State department report may help Iraqi LGBT asylum applicants - By Bruce Leimsidor on http://madikazemi.blogspot.com on 04/12/10: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2010/04/us-state-department-report-may-help.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Hence, its language tends to be guarded, and it goes even out of its way to avoid antagonizing the target government or incurring criticism of bias. For example, it does, in fact, state that the Iraqi MOI considers the killing of LGBT as murder, but it helpfully goes on to say that despite many documented cases, ?Authorities had not announced any arrests or prosecutions of any persons for killing, torturing, or detaining any LGBT individuals by year's end.?
(PDF - 363 Kb) Document Date: 12 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 47)
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"Walk for Tolerance" Calls for End to Bigotry in Jamaica - by AIDS Free World on 04/08/10: http://www.aids-freeworld.org/content/view/367/135/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"If anyone is in doubt about the significance of this event, we would like to point out that it is the first of its kind in Jamaica, a country internationally notorious for its vicious homophobia. If anyone is in doubt about the courage of the people who participated, we would like to point to Jamaica?s abysmal human rights record with sexual minorities. Five years ago, Steve Harvey, a senior JASL employee, was murdered for being gay. Jamaica is one of the 79 countries with homophobic laws, and public figures spew hateful anti-gay diatribes with impunity. Just last year the Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, made disparaging remarks about gay people and announced that he has no intention of repealing the country?s sodomy laws."
(PDF - 47 Kb) Document Date: 8 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 35)
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US reports harassment and rape of gays in Zimbabwe - By ANGUS SHAW (AP) on 04/07/10: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9fW9HViWKPeEmzMW-hz1pHnR3BAD9EUA8I00 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"HARARE, Zimbabwe ? Gay Zimbabweans face widespread harassment and some have even been raped by those intending to convert their sexuality, the U.S. State Department said in a discussion of its annual human rights report in Zimbabwe. <br><br>
Gay men were forced into heterosexual acts and lesbian women were raped, sometimes by male relatives, to teach them to change their ways, said Amanda Porter, political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Harare and compiler of the report."
(PDF - 80 Kb) Document Date: 7 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 31)
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Malawi: Court case drives MSM deeper underground - by IRIN on http://madikazemi.blogspot.com, 04/07/10: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2010/04/malawi-court-case-drives-msm-deeper.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Police are more empowered to arrest people, so it is very hard for the MSM community to come to meetings. It's also become very hard even for the organization to distribute HIV/AIDS information [to them] because that will be regarded as promoting something illegal ... that's what the media and the church and the government officials are saying."
(PDF - 309 Kb) Document Date: 7 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 39)
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On film, the trials of an Iranian lesbian activist (at the hands of UK authorities) - by www.rferl.org on 04/06/10: http://www.rferl.org/content/On_Film_The_Trials_Of_An_Iranian_Lesbian_Activist/2004024.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"She had been making a documentary film about Iranian homosexuals back when she lived in Iran, but the Iranian Intelligence Service found the footage and started following her. She managed to leave the country because she realized that the security service had become suspicious about her activities and the existence of her film. They started to investigate regarding the identity of the filmmaker and interviewees and the content of the documentary, but she was already here in the U.K. to study and work for human rights."
(PDF - 75 Kb) Document Date: 6 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 32)
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Stonewall en El Salvador? - Carta enviada al CAM, a la PNC y a la Alcaldía de San Salvador- Denuncia hecha por la Alianza por la Diversidad Sexual-Copia de la carta que la Primera Dama Vanda Pignato, enviara al Alcalde de San Salvador -Stonewall in El Salvador?-Letter sent to CAM, MPC and City Hall of San Salvador- Formal complaint made by Alliance for Sexual Diversity - Copy of the letter that the First Lady Vanda Pignato sent the San Salvador Mayor- by http://sergayenelsalvador.blogspot.com/ on 03/27/10: http://sergayenelsalvador.blogspot.com/2010/03/stonewall-en-el-salvador.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Este jueves 25 de marzo, un nutrido grupo de agentes del CAM (Cuerpo de Agentes Metropolitanos) y de la PNC (Policía Nacional Civil) irrumpieron en una gran mayoría de locales LGBT y con la excusa de pedir papeles irrespetaron procedimientos, integridades físicas y psicológicas tanto de propietarios como de clientes de los negocios.<br>
Son hechos lamentables que hay que denunciar. Existe un proceder sistemático para atemorizar a la clientela y propietarios de negocios LGBT por parte de la alcaldía municipal de San Salvador que recuerda la represión en EEUU para la época de Stonewall. Motivo más para unirnos más y denunciar con fuerza estos atropellos institucionales contra nuestra comunidad.<br><br>
This Thursday, the 25th of March, a large group of agents of the CAM (Metropolitan Police Corps) and of the PNC (National Civil Police) broke into a majority of the LGBT places and with the excuse of asking for papers disrespected procedures, physical and psychological integrity as well as the owners and the clients of the businesses. These are lamentable facts which must be denounced. There exists a systematic procedure to frighten the clientele and LGBT business owners on the part of the municipal government of San Salvador which brings to mind the repression in the USA during the time of Stonewall. It motivated us more to unite us and to denounce with force these institutional abuses against our community.
(PDF - 482 Kb) Document Date: 27 Mar 2010 (Downloads: 39)
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Testimonio de testigo de operativo CAM-PNC a negocios LGBT el 25 de marzo de 2010, en San Salvador- Eye witness testimony of the raid by CAM-PNC on March 25th in El Salvador, by sergayenelsalvador.blogspot.com on 04/06/10: http://sergayenelsalvador.blogspot.com/2010/04/testimonio-de-testigo-de-operativo-cam.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"La siguiente es la entrevista completa que le hice a uno de los clientes que se encontraban
en un local LGBT al momento del operativo conjunto Cuerpo de Agentes Metropolitanos
(CAM) - Policía Nacional Civil (PNC), en San Salvador, la noche del 25 de marzo de este
año. ?X?, como le llamo para proteger su identidad, no fue uno de los más maltratados en
el operativo (para variar, la peor parte se la llevaron travestis y transgénero), pero su
testimonio sirve para evidenciar una seria de malos procedimientos y violaciones de
derechos cuando se da este tipo de operativos. Lo presento no con el ánimo de crear temor,
sino de visibilizar, informando a la opinión pública de lo que ocurre y nunca se sabe. "
(PDF - 464 Kb) Document Date: 5 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 33)
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Gobierno mexicano debe reconocer derechos LGBTI, afirma ONU - Mexican Government should recognize LGBTI rights, the United Nations affirms. - by Leonardo Bastida Aguilar, www.notiese.org, 04/05/10: http://www.notiese.org/notiese.php?ctn_id=3756 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"El reconocimiento de los derechos de la comunidad lésbico, gay, bisexual, transexual e intersexual (LGBTI) es uno de los grandes pendientes del Estado mexicano, señaló el Comité de Derechos Humanos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), tras dar a conocer las ?observaciones finales? al V Informe que el Estado mexicano presentó ante el organismo." <br><br> ?El hecho de que exista un pronunciamiento no garantiza que se cumplan las recomendaciones, pero es un gran avance que la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) considere el reconocimiento de los derechos de la comunidad LGBTI como algo fundamental?, consideró Andrea Cerami, abogado de Asistencia Legal por los Derechos Humanos (Asilegal), una de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil que ha dado seguimiento al V Examen ante el Comité de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas."<br><br>
"The recognition of the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersexual (LGBTI) community is one of the big outstanding things of the Mexican government, pointed out the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations, after presenting its "final observations"of the 5th Rerport that the Mexican government presented before the organization."<br><br>
The fact that a pronouncement exists does not guarantee that they will follow through with the recommendations, but it is a big step that the UN considers the recognition of the rights of the LGBTI community as something fundamental," considered Andrea Cerami, lawyer with the Legal Assistance for Human Rights (Asilegal), one of the organizations of the civil society which has pursued the 5th Examination before the Committee of Human Rights of the United Nations."
(PDF - 96 Kb) Document Date: 5 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 42)
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Mexico: Denuncian muertes de sida por negligencia de SS; / AIDS deaths due to negligence of Secretary of Health are denounced [SS]- (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Monterrey, NL.- La discriminación que padecen por ser portadores del
virus del sida les ha costado cinco muertes de enero a la fecha,
denunciaron integrantes de la Asociación Colectiva por los Derechos de
las Minorías Sexuales. <br><br>
Con una protesta realizada a la puerta de la Secretaría de Salud, en
la que se pegaban cintas con la leyenda "sidoso" y "marica", al tiempo
que repetían estos calificativos por un altavoz, los integrantes de la
comunidad gay pusieron de manifiesto su inconformidad por la situación
que atraviesan."<br><br>
The discrimination which they suffer as carriers of the AIDS virus has cost five deaths from January until now proclaim members of the Collective Association for the Rights of Sexual Minorities.<br><br>
With a protest carried out at the door of the Secretary of Health, where they posted ribbons with the inscription "AIDS patient" and "homosexual" while at the same time they repeated these epithets through a megaphone, the members of the gay community showed their discomfort for the situation with which they are confronted."
(PDF - 56 Kb) Document Date: 5 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 42)
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Cuba's health care now pays for sex changes Coverage is sign of move toward greater tolerance By Will Weissert, Associated Press | March 14, 2010: http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2010/03/14/cubas_health_care_now_pays_for_sex_changes/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Government media campaigns now discourage homophobia. Hundreds of gay Cubans marched down Havana's spiffy La Rampa boulevard last spring, just a year after authorities had forbidden a gay-pride parade.<br><br>
"I'd like to think that discrimination against homosexuals is a problem that is being overcome," Fidel Castro, the former president, said during a series of interviews with French journalist Ignacio Ramonet between 2003 and 2005. "Old prejudices and narrow-mindedness will increasingly be things of the past."
(PDF - 70 Kb) Document Date: 14 Mar 2010 (Downloads: 38)
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Russian court OKs ban on gay 'propaganda'- Rex Wockner International News # 832 on 04/05/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Russia's Constitutional Court dismissed a complaint from gay activists
March 31 which argued against the Ryazan region's ban on "exposing minors
to homosexual propaganda." <br><br>
Gay activists Nikolai Alekseev, Nikolai Baev and Irina Fet had claimed the
ban violates a constitutional guarantee that only federal laws can limit
constitutional rights, as well as guarantees of freedom of thought and
speech, and freedom from discrimination.
(PDF - 24 Kb) Document Date: 5 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 62)
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