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Nigeria: Gays Call on Govts. Not to Ignore Them-UN Integrated Regional Information Networks-12/8/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Gay activists at an international conference on AIDS in Africa have called on governments to acknowledge the existence and specific needs of the gay community in the fight against HIV/AIDS. "According to all the surveys done on the African continent, AIDS programmes for MSM (men who have sex with men) are inadequate or even non-existent" said a representative of Alliance Rights Nigeria (ARN), a Nigerian gay rights organisation.
(PDF - 103 Kb) Document Date: 8 Dec 2005 (Downloads: 557)
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Nigeria: In Africa, homophobia goes beyond church - United Press International-2/25/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Obarou Adjarbu carries a Bible under one arm, and he knows what it says. It says homosexuality is a sin, according to Adjarhu's reading. Today. Tomorrow. And as far as the 32-year-old Nigerian businessman is concerned, forever.
(PDF - 73 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 512)
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Nigeria: Obasanjo proffers stringent measures against gay marriages-Vanguard Online-4/12/06P (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
President Olusegun Obasanjo's stringent proposal proscribing homosexual marriage in the country has been widened to punish individuals who witness, celebrate with or support couples involved in homosexual relationships.
(PDF - 98 Kb) Document Date: 12 Apr 2006 (Downloads: 527)
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Nigeria: Situation of homosexuals and their treatment under sharia (August 2004-February 2005)-UNHCR (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This update of NGA42748.E of 14 July 2004 on the situation of homosexuals and their treatment under sharia reviews publicly accessible information from August 2004 and February 2005. Although new information on legislation could not be found, current reports on the enforcement of laws and sate protection (Vanguagr 28 Nov. 2004; ibid 31 Oct. 2004; This Day 16 Jan. 2005; ibid 28 Oct. 2004; 365Gay.com 29 Nov. 2004; HRW Sept. 2004) and societal attitudes (Sex Education Apr. 2004; BTM 30 Sept. 2004; Daily Champion 20 Sept. 2004; EAS 2 Nov. 2004; ACN 2 Nov. 2004) were found among the sources consulted.
(PDF - 246 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 566)
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Nigeria:Country Report on Human Rights Practices-2005-Bureau of Democracy,Human Rights and Labor-3/8 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and a capital territory, with a population of 140 to 150 million, in April 2003, President Olusegun Obsanjo of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) was reelected to a four-year deemed after being declared the winner in elections that were marred by what international and domestic observers termed to be in serious irregularities and fraud, including political violence. The elections also resulted int he ruling PDP claiming 70 percent of the seats in the national legislature and 75 percent of the state governorships.
(PDF - 221 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 523)
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Nigerian Anglicans Seeing Gay Challenge to Orthodoxy-New York Times-12/20/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
At one end of town on a fall Saturday morning, in a soaring cathedral nestled in a tidy suburb, dozens of Nigeria's most powerful citizens gathered, their Mercedes, Porsche and Range Rover sport utility vehicles gleaming in a packed parking lot. The well-heeled crowd was there to celebrate the Eucharist with the leader of Nigeria's Anglican Church, Archbishop Peter J. Akinola.
(PDF - 103 Kb) Document Date: 20 Dec 2005 (Downloads: 509)
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Nigerian Humanists Fight for Survival of Country's Gay Community-Africanvail.org 4/24/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A leading Nigerian Humanist is courageously standing up for the country's gay community in the face of his government's vicious attack on gay rights. With the blessing of the Nigerian Anglican Church and its leader, Archbishop Peter Akinola, the government of Nigeria has tabled in parliament one of the world's most comprehensive and repressive anti-gay laws. The President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has declared that homosexual practice "is clearly un-Bibilical, unnatural and definitely un-African."
(PDF - 152 Kb) Document Date: 24 Apr 2006 (Downloads: 602)
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Nigerian Man Sentenced to Stoning for Gay Sex-Reuters-7/9/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A United Nations human rights expert has raised the alarm over the case of a man in northern Nigeria who has been sentenced to death by stoning after admitting to homosexual sex. the UN special rapporteur on arbitrary executions, Philip alston, has called for an imemdiate review of the entire process that led the man's death sentence under Islamic Sharia law.
(PDF - 26 Kb) Document Date: 9 Jul 2005 (Downloads: 522)
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Peru: Activista Gay Es Discriminado en Gimnasio-MHOL-2/11/02 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
E; [asadp ,artes 11 de febrerp a ;as 7:30 pm el responsable de comunicationes del Movimiento Homsexual de Lima (MHOL), Cristhian Manuel Olivera Fuentes, fue expulsado del gimnasio Model Gym por habar hecho declaraciones publicas en medios de comunication (canales 4 y 5) sobre los homosexuales y las Fuerzas Armadas.
(PDF - 64 Kb) Document Date: 11 Feb 2002 (Downloads: 549)
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Perú: Fotos de la Violencia del Serenazgo de Lima-Instituto Runo-1/18/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Fotos de la violencia del Serenazgo de Lima mostrando como quedaron las personas trans luego de la agresion del Serenazgo de Lima.
(PDF - 91 Kb) Document Date: 18 Jan 2007 (Downloads: 528)
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Peru: Grupos Fundamentalistas Intentan Evitar Que El Gobierno Reconozca Derechos de Gays y Lesbianas en el Plan Nacional de Derechos Humanos-Unidos por la Vida-11/18/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
La Coordinadora Nacional Unidos Por La Vida, membrete bajo el cual se cobijan los grupos fundamentalistas que activan contra los derechos sexuales en Peru, ha iniciado una campana en contra del Plan Nacional de Derechos Humanos, que incluye algunas demandas fundamentales de las comunidades y movimiento LTGB.
(PDF - 45 Kb) Document Date: 18 Nov 2005 (Downloads: 601)
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Peru: Information on Treatment of Sexual Minorities-INS Resource Information Center-1/16/03 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
What are the conditions currently faced by sexual minorities in Peru? Though there are no laws prohibiting sexual activity between civilians of the same sex, authorities frequently invoke vague laws aiming to uphold "public morality" as a tool to repress sexual "deviance."
(PDF - 93 Kb) Document Date: 16 Jan 2003 (Downloads: 531)
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Peru: Jovenes de la CGTP Rechazan La Discriminacion por Orientacion Sexual-Raiz Diversidad Sexual-11/29/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
La Confederacion General de Trabajadores del Peru (CGTP) es sin lugar a dudas la organizacion sindical mas importante e influyente del pais, pero por primera vez en su historia la central obrera fundada por Jose Carlos Mariategui, organizo un Encuentro Nacional de sus afiliados jovenes.
(PDF - 43 Kb) Document Date: 29 Nov 2005 (Downloads: 539)
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Perú: PLANTON DE PROTESTS POR LAS BATIDAS CONTRA TRAVESTIS, TRANSEXUALES, TRANSGENEROS Y GAYS-7/9/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Raíz Diversidad Sexual <br><br> Rechacemos la actitud abusiva de la Policia Nacional, el Serenazgo Municipal y del Alcalde de Lima. Alcemos nuestra voz de protests contra el cobro de cupos, extorsiones y maltratos contra la poblacion LGTB. Exijamos el inmediato cese de las batidas en el Centro de Lima.
(PDF - 37 Kb) Document Date: 9 Jul 2005 (Downloads: 558)
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Perú: Se Realiza Planton de Rechazo a Las Batidas Contra Las Travestis-Raiz Divers Sexual- 7/12/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Unas treinta personas se reunieron en la puerta de la Comisaria de Alfonson Ugarte, al costado de la Prefectura de Lima, con el fin de alzar su voz de protesta contra las batidas que realiza la Policia Nacional y el Serenazgo Municipal contra travestis y gays en el Centro de Lima.
(PDF - 95 Kb) Document Date: 12 Jul 2005 (Downloads: 514)
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Peru: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit-6/22/05-Re: Jose Salkeld (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Decision of the case of Jose Salkeld and his petition for review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals.
(PDF - 335 Kb) Document Date: 22 Jun 2005 (Downloads: 490)
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Sodomy Laws-Nigeria-Statute:Chapter 42, Section 214/Sharia Law-04/13/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Chapter 42 of the criminal code, section 214, states that any person who "has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature" or "permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years." Introduction of Islamic Sharia law in some northern states has lead to death by stoning.
(PDF - 86 KB) Document Date: 13 Apr 2006
(PDF - 86 Kb) Document Date: 13 Apr 2006 (Downloads: 538)
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Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister-Dominic Kennedy- www.timesonline.co.uk 11/13/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt.<br><br>
Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being hanged.
(PDF - 248 Kb) Document Date: 13 Nov 2007 (Downloads: 479)
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IGLHRC Case 6523 Brazil/USA: Attorney Alyssa Simpson Brazil Index-6/15/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Human Rights Watch Report 2006: Brazil continues to suffer from human rights abuses. Police violence and death squads are active in the country. Human rights defenders have been attacked, including Adamor Guedes, the president of the Amazonaian Association of Gays, Lesbians, and Transvestites, who was stabbed to death.
(PDF - 66 Kb) Document Date: 15 Jun 2006 (Downloads: 552)
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Nigeria: Man Faces Death by Stoning for Gay Sex-365 Gay.com-11/29/04 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
An Islamic court has issued an arrest warrant for a middle-aged man accused of having gay sex. If caught and convicted the Sharia court in Kefli could sentence him to death by stoning.
(PDF - 30 Kb) Document Date: 29 Nov 2004 (Downloads: 551)
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