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Nepal Issues First Citizenship ID for Transgender Persons-247Gay.com 2/3/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A transgender person has been legally recognized in Nepal for the first time in the country's history.<br>
Chanda Rani â?? now Chanda Musalman â?? received a citizenship ID from Khas Karkandho with the â??M/Fâ? under â??genderâ? erased and â??Bothâ? substituted.
(PDF - 336 Kb) Document Date: 3 Feb 2006 (Downloads: 585)
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45 gays outed in Uganda witch-hunt - Brett Lock, OutRage! 9/7/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The police called some of the boys in the list. Our efforts to help out our friends who have been arrested were fruitless, since the police, under the influence of many different politicians, wanted the guys to be jailedâ¦.The gays were not allowed access to proper justice. Some of them were put in cells for more than 48 hours, which are allowed by the police and yet none of them have had the opportunity to be in court. Those who have been released on police bail, we don't know their whereabouts.
(PDF - 209 Kb) Document Date: 7 Sep 2006 (Downloads: 474)
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China lawmakers push for gay marriage- Reuters 3/3/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Li Yinhe, a sociologist and member of the advisory body to parliament, plans to submit a proposal on same-sex marriage, aiming to end discrimination against homosexuality.<br>
Li has submitted the proposal twice before, but it failed to gain the minimum support of 30 fellow members in the 2,000 group, the Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.<br>
Li admitted that the "cultural environment in the country is not yet prepared for such a proposal".
(PDF - 345 Kb) Document Date: 3 Mar 2006 (Downloads: 484)
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China: Sociologist calls for legitimation of same-sex marriage- People's Daly Online=3/3/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A famous Chinese sociologist said on Friday she will submit a proposal on same-sex marriage again to the annual session of the country's top political advisory body, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).,br>
Li Yinhe, a member of the CPPCC National Committee, said the legitimation of same-sex marriage is an effective way to help eliminate discrimination against homosexuality.<br>
This will be the third time for the expert on marriage and sex studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to submit a similar proposal.
(PDF - 156 Kb) Document Date: 3 Mar 2006 (Downloads: 564)
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HOMOSEXUAL MEN IN CHINA PRESSURED TO WED, HAVE KIDS- By Tim Johnson mercurynews.com 2/1/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
China, though, appears unique in the way that enormous family pressures are brought to bear on gay men. Nearly three decades have passed since China began a ``one-child policy' of limiting most couples to single offspring to curb a population that already has soared to 1.3 billion. Most young gay men are the only sons of their families. If they do not marry and have children, their family trees wither, a fate that most Chinese deem dreadful.
(PDF - 126 Kb) Document Date: 1 Feb 2007 (Downloads: 468)
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Mexico: Lesbians Register Mexico's 1st Gay Union- By JUAN MONTANO AP 1/31/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The object of this law is that unions of people of the same sex be legally regulated and recognized, so that they can have some security in their future"<br><br>
A lesbian couple registered what officials called Mexico's first gay civil union on Wednesday in the northern city of Saltillo.<br>
The couple, Karina Almaguer and Karla Lopez, traveled to Saltillo from their home state of Tamaulipas to register as a 'civil solidarity union' under a newly passed law that made Coahuila the first of Mexico's 31 states to grant recognition to such unions.<br>
Television footage showed the couple smiling broadly and shaking hands with officials after the simple ceremony at a registrar's office.<br>
Coahuila State Assemblywoman Julieta Lopez Fuentes, who served as an official witness, said the law passed earlier this month allows people from other states to register such unions in Coahuila.
(PDF - 146 Kb) Document Date: 31 Jan 2007 (Downloads: 420)
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Russian president formulates his position on possible gay parade in Moscow-Gay.ru 1/2/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"However, I respect, and will continue to respect human freedom in all of its forms," he said.
(PDF - 88 Kb) Document Date: 1 Feb 2006 (Downloads: 569)
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Burkina Faso- Behind the Mask 2005 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Legal wise<br>
There is no law against gays. Penal Code criminalizes sexual contacts with someone under the age of consent with a penalty of up to 3 years' imprisonment. Gay sexual activity is legal. The age of consent is equal as of the Penal Code of 1996.
(PDF - 113 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2005 (Downloads: 618)
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Burkina Faso- US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2004 2/28/05 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Exept:<br>
Other Societal Abuses or Discrimination<br>
Societal discrimination against homosexuals and persons with HIV/AIDS was a problem
(PDF - 48 Kb) Document Date: 28 Feb 2005 (Downloads: 570)
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Burkina Faso- US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 3/8/06 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor<br>
March 8, 2006<br>
Excerpt:<br>
Other Societal Abuses and Discrimination
Societal discrimination against homosexuals and persons with HIV/AIDS was a problem. Persons who tested positive for HIV/AIDS were sometimes shunned by their families, and HIV/AIDS positive wives were sometimes evicted from their homes.
(PDF - 50 Kb) Document Date: 8 Mar 2006 (Downloads: 564)
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Dying to Come Out - The War on Gays in Iraq-GQ -By David France 1/31/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Before the fall of Saddam, Iraq was a place where gay men could live in relative security. But then the forces of hatred were unleashed, and everything changed. Consider Ali Hili, an Iraqi with a mysterious past- a man who was forced by Saddam's secret agents to spy on the gay community. Now, after escaping his his life, he's trying to save the ones left behind. Meet new Baghdad's new underground railroad.
(PDF - 935 Kb) Document Date: 31 Jan 2007 (Downloads: 556)
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Lambda Legal Secures Asylum for Gay Mexican Immigrant- 1/30/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Rex Wockner- LAMBDA LEGAL NEWS RELEASE <br> <br>In 2003, a Southern California immigration judge ruled that there was credible evidence that Soto Vega was persecuted in Mexico because of his sexual orientation, but rejected his application for asylum in the United States because Soto Vega didn't appear gay to him and, in the judge's opinion, he could pass as straight if he so chose. After the Board of Immigration Appeals summarily affirmed that opinion, Lambda Legal in 2004 petitioned the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco for review. On June 2, 2006, the Ninth Circuit held that both the immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals decided incorrectly by not recognizing that, because Soto Vega had been persecuted in the past, he was entitled to a presumption that he had a well-founded fear of future persecution were he forced to return to Mexico. The Ninth Circuit further held that it was the government's burden to show that Soto Vega's life would not be in jeopardy if he were forced to return home to the country where his life had been threatened in the past. The decision by the immigration judge after today's hearing concluded that the government had not been able to refute that presumption and that Soto Vega therefore is entitled to asylum in the United States.
(PDF - 54 Kb) Document Date: 30 Jan 2006 (Downloads: 531)
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Mauritania Penal Code-[French] (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Ordonnance 83-162 du 09 juillet 183 portant institution d'un Code Pénal
(PDF - 1,478 Kb) Document Date: 9 Jul 1983 (Downloads: 469)
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Mexico: Lost in Transition: Bold Ambitions, Limited Results for Human Rights Under Fox-HRW 5/2006 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Human Rights Watch, Mexico, 2006 Report [HIV/AIDS]
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EXCERPT:<br>
III. Transparency: Ending the Culture of Official Secrecy<br><br>
Results: Progress and Obstacles<br>
The Executive<br>
Positive Impact<br>
For example, a Mexican human rights organization, FUNDAR, was able to document the misallocation of 200 million pesos (approximately U.S.$19 million) in the federal budget earmarked to combat and prevent HIV/AIDS. Â The NGO submitted more than two hundred information requests to various federal agencies, including the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit and the Department of Health, to monitor how the extra funds were actually spent. The information they obtained revealed that the Department of Health had distributed the budget increase among hospitals that had budget crises and did not necessarily have experience in working with HIV/AIDS patients. Furthermore, they found that three out of seven of these hospitals had spent the entire extra allocation on â??general services,â? including security, cleaning products, and banking services.<http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/mexico0506/3.htm#_ftn85>85 Since the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit labels money as spent the moment it is transferred, they considered the money to have been spent on HIV/AIDS because the funds had been labeled as such. Given this scenario, the information obtained through information requests on how the money was actually spent helped publicize that the extra budget for HIV/AIDS was not getting to patients who desperately needed it, and it demonstrated the flaws in a system that allows such lack of accountability.
(PDF - 402 Kb) Document Date: 1 May 2006 (Downloads: 553)
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Russia: Gay Pride parade (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov has branded Gay Pride parades a "satanic act" and vowed to stop any attempt by homosexuals to march through the capital this year, Russian news agencies reported.<br>
Last year, objectors ranging from skinheads to Russian Orthodox Christians attacked gay activists when they marched through Moscow in defiance of a ban on the parade.<br>
Gay Pride parades "can only be described as a satanic act", Interfax quoted the 70-year-old Luzhkov as saying.
(PDF - 92 Kb) Document Date: 30 Jan 2007 (Downloads: 545)
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Iraq Slams U.N. Report on Casualties-WTOPnews.com By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press Writer 1/18/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The U.N. report, which was released Tuesday in Baghdad, also was critical about the government's performance on human rights violations, raising concerns about homosexuals and other vulnerable groups.<br>
"The current environment of impunity and lawlessness invites a heightened level of insecurity for homosexuals in Iraq. Armed Islamic groups and militias have been known to be particularly hostile toward homosexuals frequently and openly engaging in violent campaigns against them," the U.N. report read. "There has been a number of assassinations of homosexuals in Iraq."
(PDF - 96 Kb) Document Date: 18 Jan 2007 (Downloads: 416)
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UN confirms Iraqi gay killings - GayNZ.com 1/27/07 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
For the very first time, an official United Nations human rights report released last week has confirmed the "violent campaigns" against Iraqi gays and the "assassinations of homosexuals in Iraq." <br>
"Attacks on homosexuals and intolerance of homosexual practices have long existed, yet they have escalated in the past year," says the latest bi-monthly Human Rights Report of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), released on 16 January.
(PDF - 152 Kb) Document Date: 27 Jan 2007 (Downloads: 489)
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Mauritania - Laws covering homosexual activity: Behind the Maks 2005 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Laws covering homosexual activity: Sub-Article 331.3 of the Penal Code of the Federation of French West Africa, of which Mauritania was part before independence in 1960, allowed a maximum imprisonment of three years and a fine of one million francs for sexual acts with a person of the same sex under the age of 21. This Code was enacted in 1947 and retained under Article 60 of the Mauritanian Constitution. (Arno Schmitt and Jehoeda Sofer - "Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies") [Presumably this is superceded by the application of Sharia law] ILGA
Some sources say that the death penalty applies if sodomy is committed<br>
background information and government attitudes: It appears that Shari'a law has been introduced. "Even in smaller countries like Yemen and Mauritania, homosexual behavior has become an offense punishable by death" (West & Green - Sociolegal Control of Homosexuality)<br>
Like many of its African counterparts, the Mauritanian regime is a hybrid, combining democratic and authoritarian traits. On the one hand, Mauritania embarked upon a path of political liberalization in 1991, after 31 years of single-party and military rule. The 1991 constitution provided for a pluralist political regime and for the official recognition of universal human rights. For the first time since the year of independence (1960), the country has held an uninterrupted cycle of multiparty elections at the municipal, legislative, and presidential levels.
(PDF - 115 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2005 (Downloads: 565)
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Mauritania Current Update SO (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 1,448 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2002 (Downloads: 389)
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Mauritania Current Update SO (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(PDF - 368 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jan 2002 (Downloads: 605)
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