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Turkey: Istanbul authorities attempt to close gay rights organization-Kaos GL News 10/16/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The following is a Human Rights Watch press release: <br>
Turkey: End Legal Action Against Gay Rights Group
Attempt to Close Lambda Istanbul Endangers Basic Freedoms<br><br>
A legal challenge by the governor of Istanbul seeking to close down Lambda Istanbul, a gay rights organization, threatens basic freedoms of association and expression, Human Rights Watch said today.
"Shutting down groups because you don't like the people they represent is an attack on freedom itself," said Juliana Cano Nieto, researcher in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, who will attend an October 18, 2007 court hearing in Istanbul on the organization's fate. "If organizations that defend human rights cannot function, Turkey's status as a real democracy is in danger."
(PDF - 233 Kb) Document Date: 16 Oct 2007 (Downloads: 487)
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Turkish LGBTT Group Faces Closure in Istanbul, Turkey-7/12/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Below is a press statement about attempts to close another Turkish LGBTT Group (Lambda Istanbul) in Istanbul
THE DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION PREVENT FREEDOM OF ORGANISING LGBTT PEOPLE!
We are asking: Is it immoral to be organized?
Stating that "Not only heterosexuals live in this society!", Turkey's lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transvestite and transsexual (LGBTT) associations are trying to benefit from their freedom of speech in order to fight aganist the discrimination based on sexual orientation and sexual identity. Turkish LGBTT people are against denial, marginalisation, stigmatisation and violence; they are seeking recognition of their existence in society.
(PDF - 238 Kb) Document Date: 12 Jul 2006 (Downloads: 457)
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Attitudes of general practitioners towards homosexuals in the Caribbean-Gateway NLM 7/11/04 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Attitudes of general practitioners towards homosexuals in the Caribbean.<br>
Radix AE, Buncamper C, van Osch G.
Int Conf AIDS. 2004 Jul 11-16; 15: abstract no. TuPeD5048.<br>
A. M. Edwards Medical Centre, Saba, Netherlands Antilles<br><br>
The tolerance scores calculated were among the lowest internationally when compared to world-wide country data. Conclusion This study supports our hypothesis that homophobic attitudes exist among physicians in the Caribbean. This institutionalized homophobia may impact negatively on risk factor identification and consequently has important implications for HIV prevention campaigns.
(PDF - 87 Kb) Document Date: 11 Jul 2004 (Downloads: 432)
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Argentina: Investigate Transgender Murder and Protect Activist in Salta Province-IGLHRC 10/29/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Summary
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission is deeply concerned about the unresolved murder case of Pelusa Liendro, and the ongoing persecution and harassment of Pelusa's partner in activism, Rosario. Pelusa Liendro, a human rights defender who regularly denounced police and institutional abuses against transgender people, was murdered on November 26, 2006. Pelusa's murder came after a local TV show used a hidden camera to film and then broadcast police asking transgender sex workers for bribes in Salta Province, Argentina. The police have insinuated that the murder involved drug trafficking or a crime of passion but the crime has yet to be solved. The police have also named Pelusa's friend, Rosario, as a prime suspect in the murder case. Rosario has accused the police of the crime and requests an exhaustive investigation into Pelusa's murder. She also asks for personal protection for herself, fearing that otherwise she will share the same fate as her friend.
(PDF - 125 Kb) Document Date: 29 Oct 2007 (Downloads: 512)
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Men get 7000 lashes for sodomy- Herald Sun From correspondents in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 10/4/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
TWO men in Saudi Arabia have been sentenced to 7000 lashes each after being convicted of sodomy and have received their first round of punishment in public, a newspaper said today.<br><br>
Homosexual acts are illegal in Saudi Arabia, which metes out strict punishment based on sharia, or Islamic law.
(PDF - 73 Kb) Document Date: 4 Oct 2007 (Downloads: 473)
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Clashes in Venezuela Over Controversial Constitutional Changes- Leandro Prada, CNSNews.com 10/24/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
According to Elena Hernaiz Lanaez, president of a homosexual-rights advocacy group, Reflejos, Venezuela's community of lesbians, homosexuals, transsexuals and bisexuals is believed to comprise almost six million people, although it is difficult to obtain actual figures.<br>
Of those, about two million are of voting age, she told Cybercast News Service.<br>
Hernaiz Lanaez said the proposal was a positive one, although some of the issues raised by her organization had not been taken up by the National Assembly.
(PDF - 196 Kb) Document Date: 24 Oct 2007 (Downloads: 439)
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================================================<br>Colombia: Cuerpos marcados. crimenes silenciados-Amnistia Internacional-Marked Bodies, silenced crimes-10/13/04 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
COLOMBIA<br>
Violencia sexual contra las mujeres en el marco del conflicto armado<br><br>
Octubre de 2004 RESUMEN <br> Indice AI: AMR 23/040/2004<br>
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Durante los ultimos 20 años el conflicto armado interno en Colombia se ha cobrado la vida de al menos
70.000 personas, la gran mayoria de ellas civiles muertos fuera de combate. Decenas de miles han sido
secuestrados, desaparecidos y torturados, y mas de tres millones se han visto obligados a abandonar sus
hogares. En el curso de los 40 años del conflicto se han enfrentado las fuerzas de seguridad y los
paramilitares, apoyados por el ejercito, con los grupos guerrilleros en una lucha por el control del territorio
y los recursos economicos. La poblacion civil ha sido la más afectada por esta violencia. No solo por haber
quedado atrapada entre dos fuegos , sino porque a menudo se la ha colocado en el punto de mira de
forma directa y deliberada, por ejemplo para eliminar a quienes se considera que apoyan al enemigo o
para sembrar el terror con el fin de limpiar territorios de interes economico o estrategico para los grupos
armados o para aquellos que los respaldan.
La violencia contra las mujeres, en particular la violencia y la explotacion sexuales llegando hasta la
violacion y la mutilacion genital, forma parte integral del conflicto armado y continua siendo una practica
extendida que utilizan todos los bandos del conflicto. Las mujeres son objetivo de los grupos armados por
diversas razones: por transgredir roles de genero o desafiar prohibiciones impuestas por los grupos
armados, o por ser consideradas un blanco util a traves del cual humillar al enemigo.<br><br>
Marked bodies, silenced crimes<br><br>
October, 2004 RESUMEN<br><br>
During the last 20 years the internal armed conflict in Colombia has cost the lives of at least 70,000 people, the great majority of them civilians killed outside of combat. Tens of thousands have been kidnapped, "disappeared," and tortured, and more than three million have been obliged to leave their homes. In the course of the 40 years of the conflict, security forces and the paramilitaries, aided by the army, have clashed with the guerrilla groups in a fight for the control of territory and economic resources. The civil population has been the most affected by this violence. Not only for having been "trapped between two fires," but because they have often been placed in the spotlight in a direct and deliberate way, for example, in order to eliminate those who are considered to aid the "enemy" or to sow terror with the end result of "cleaning" territories of economic or strategic interest for armed groups or for those who support them. Violence against women, in particular violence and sexual exploitation up to and including rape and genital mutilation, form an integral part of the armed conflict and continues being an extended practice which all sides of the conflict utilize. Women are the object of the armed groups for various reasons: to transgress gender roles or challenge prohibitions imposed by armed groups, or to be considered a useful target with which they can humiliate the enemy.
(PDF - 643 Kb) Document Date: 13 Oct 2004 (Downloads: 547)
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Colombia: Estudio revela la situacion de homofobia en Colombia-Study reveals the situation of homophobia in Colombia-Semana.com 7/12/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Es un pais donde la violencia, el maltrato verbal, emocional y fis ico son permantes, en el que a las personas LGBT se les amenaza de muerte, se les obliga a desplazarse e incluso hasta se les assesina, Colombia diversa, una reconocida ONG que trabaja en Colombia por el tema de los derechos humanos y sexuales realizo un informe que recoge y analiza informaciones y casos sobre violaciones de derechos humanos contra estas personas, ocurridas durante el ano 2004 y 2005.<br><br>
It is a country where violence as well as verbal, emotional and physical mistreatment are permanent, in that LGBT people are threatened with death, they are obliged to move and they are even assassinated. Diverse Colombia, a well known NGO which works in Colombia on the theme of human and sexual rights made a report which gathers and analyzes information and cases about violations of human rights against these people which occurred during the year 2004-2005.
(PDF - 3,823 Kb) Document Date: 12 Jul 2006 (Downloads: 570)
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Colombia: Gay man wins asylum-Bay Area Reporter- by Seth Hemmelgarn 10/18/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
J. himself had received death threats for his community work, and he'd been harassed by police because he's gay.<br>
Then, after residing in the U.S. for several years, J. was diagnosed with HIV.<br>
His 2006 diagnosis was bad news, but it also gave him hope for a new life: An immigration judge granted asylum to J. late last month on the basis of his HIV status and his sexual orientation.
(PDF - 730 Kb) Document Date: 18 Oct 2006 (Downloads: 425)
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Surprising Ways in Gay Uruguay- Globalgayz.com 7/15/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
In Uruguay however neither the church nor the military have had the same driving influence and the presence of an elite class, with its formal proscriptions on proper behavior, is minimal since the resources of the country cannot support a large influential elite class. The trickle-down effect of these differences, in Uruguay, has been a softening of conservative values and a quiet liberalism that is discreet.
(PDF - 328 Kb) Document Date: 15 Jul 2006 (Downloads: 515)
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Surprising Ways in Gay Uruguay- Globalgayz.com 7/15/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
In Uruguay however neither the church nor the military have had the same driving influence and the presence of an elite class, with its formal proscriptions on proper behavior, is minimal since the resources of the country cannot support a large influential elite class. The trickle-down effect of these differences, in Uruguay, has been a softening of conservative values and a quiet liberalism that is discreet.
(PDF - 328 KB) Document Date: 15 Jul 2006
(PDF - 786 Kb) Document Date: 15 Jul 2007 (Downloads: 588)
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Gay Jordanian Now 'Gloriously Free' in Canada- 5/20/04 - Globe & Mail (Canada) By MARINA JIMENEZ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
His brother later shot him in the hospital lobby after Mr. Husseins lover came to visit him. When he was released, it was not to his own home, but to a tiny servants room with bars on the window in his brothers home. He had become his familys prisoner.
(PDF - 89 Kb) Document Date: 20 May 2004 (Downloads: 432)
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China: Hong Kong Appeals Sodomy Law-Rex Wockner-International News #598-10/10/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The Hong Kong Government has appealed an August 24 High Court ruling that struck down a law that punished male sodomy with life in prison when one or both partners are under age 21.
(PDF - 16 Kb) Document Date: 10 Oct 2005 (Downloads: 524)
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China: Hong Kong Gays Denounce Survey-Rex Wockner-International News #601-10/31/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The Hong Kong gay group Ten Percent Club has denounced as "heterosexist" an ongoing Home Affairs Bureau telephone survey concerning attitudes towards homosexuality.
(PDF - 16 Kb) Document Date: 31 Oct 2005 (Downloads: 569)
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China: Hong Kong Gays Fight Sodomy Laws Amid Societal Debate-Sylvia Hui-Associated Press-12/31/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Controversy rages over ruling on age issue in the wake of appeal by 20-year-old man:When William Roy Leung made legal history in Hong Kong by successfully challenging anti-gay laws, the 20-year-old homosexual told a crowd outside the courthouse he could finally be in love without living in fear of being thrown in jail.
(PDF - 251 Kb) Document Date: 31 Dec 2005 (Downloads: 568)
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China: Police Shut Down Gay, Lesbian Event-Human Rights Watch, December 20, 2005 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Government Persecutes Civil Society Groups That Address HIV/AIDS
(New York) - In shutting down Beijing's first-ever gay and lesbian cultural festival, the Chinese government violated basic freedoms and persecuted activists who are addressing the country's burgeoning AIDS crisis, Human Rights Watch and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network said today in letters to the Chinese authorities.
(PDF - 75 Kb) Document Date: 20 Dec 2005 (Downloads: 496)
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Chinese Police Shut down Gay Festival-Rex Wockner-International News #609, December 26, 2005 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Police shut down the first Beijing Gay and Lesbian Cultural Festival as it opened December 16, saying organizers has failed to secure permission ot hold the event.
(PDF - 20 Kb) Document Date: 26 Dec 2005 (Downloads: 547)
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Chinese University Teaches Homosexuality-Rex Wockner-World Roundup/windycitymediagroup.com 12/10/03 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
China's Fudan University is the first to offer a class devoted to homosexuality...
(PDF - 14 Kb) Document Date: 10 Dec 2003 (Downloads: 585)
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Gay Rights in China: An Update-Chinese Society for the Study of Sexual Minorities-12/30/03 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Even though homosexuality has been decriminalized and depathologized in China in the past decade, there are no protective laws for gays and lesbians. A person exposed or suspected to be gay might face dismissal from job or school. Victims usually have no legal recourse to seeking protection against discrimination as such.
(PDF - 37 Kb) Document Date: 30 Dec 2003 (Downloads: 570)
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Report: China has its first open gay-Rex Wockner-International News #603, November 14, 2005 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
China Daily reported Nov. 11 that Zheng Yuantao from Guangdong "is thought to be the first gay man in China to broadcast his sexual orientation."
(PDF - 18 Kb) Document Date: 14 Nov 2005 (Downloads: 548)
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