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Sereno asesina a lesbiana de cuchillada Chica que vestía como hombre se enfrentó a grupo que la insultaba por su orientacion sexual / Peru: Night Watchman kills lesbian with by stabbing - Girl who dressed like a man faced a group who insulted her because of her sexual orientation.- BY http://ojo.pe/ojo/nota, on 11/01/10: http://ojo.pe/ojo/nota.php?txtSecci_parent=0&txtSecci_id=2&txtNota_id=469541 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
<br><br> Por versión de los testigos se supo que al costado de ellos se encontraban tres miembros de una familia que constantemente insultaba a la muchacha por su tendencia sexual, por lo que un amigo de ella les hizo el alto. <br><br> Los iracundos sujetos, entre ellos el sereno de Los Olivos Giancarlo Farías Carrasco (24), atacaron a pedradas al grupo y fugaron a su casa de la Mz. 70 Lt. 3, siendo perseguidos por la joven Stefanía, su hermano y amigos. <br><br>
El asesino entró a su hogar y sacó un cuchillo con el que apuñaló a la joven en la pierna derecha, comprometiendo la arteria femoral, por lo que se desangró en el lugar. Su familia exige justicia y atrapar al autor que está prófugo.<br><br>
According to the version of two witnesses, it was made known that alongside them were three members of a family who constantly insulted the girl for her sexual tendency, which caused a friend of hers to cause them to stop. <br><br>
The irate subjects, among them the nightwatchman of Los Olivos Giancarlo Farías Carrasco (24), attacked the group by stoning them and fled their house at Mz. 70 Lt. 3, then being pursued by the youth Stefanía, his brother and friends.<br><br>
The murderer entered his home and took a knife with which he stabbed the youth in the right leg, compromising the femoral artery, which caused her to bleed to death in her home. Her family demands justice and the capture of the assailant who is a fugitive.
(PDF - 133 Kb) Document Date: 1 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 89)
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Bahrain: No Change Seen in Ban on Entry of People with HIV - by Suad Hamada, www.ipsnews.net, on 09/06/10: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52740 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Bahrain has had an HIV awareness campaign for years to disseminate correct information about the disease and discourage discrimination towards people with the virus. Yet many Bahrainis continue to consider those living with HIV as probably having done an 'un-Islamic' activity, primarily because it can transmitted through unprotected sex. <br><br>
As of June 2010, Bahrain had about 83,439 domestic workers, many of whom came from other countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. Labour recruiters know about the deportation policy, which has not elicited any protest from the expatriate community here. Rona Aviles, a Filipino working for an agency that deploys contract workers overseas, even told IPS, 'I support the policy, especially with HIV-positive domestic workers, as they are living with their sponsor families.'"
(PDF - 241 Kb) Document Date: 6 Sep 2010 (Downloads: 87)
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Brazil: Informe señala aumento de la violencia contra homosexuales / Report shows an increase in violence against homosexuals- by www.adital.com.br on 04/20/09: http://www.adital.com.br/site/noticia.asp?lang=ES&cod=38304 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
En 2008, 190 homosexuales fueron asesinados en Brasil, lo que representa más de uno cada dos días. El número representa un aumento del 55% en relación con 2007, cuando se registraron 122 homicidios de gays, lésbicas y travestis. El año pasado, los gays fueron la mayor parte de las víctimas (64%), mientras que los travestis representaran el 32%, y las lésbicas, el 4%. <br><br> Esta estadística es el resultado del relevamiento realizado por el Grupo Gay de Bahía (GGB), bajo la coordinación del antropólogo Luiz Mott, fundador de la entidad. El informe es divulgado anualmente desde 1980.<br><br>
In 2008, 190 homosexuals were murdered in Brazil, which means more than one every two days.The number represents an increase of 55% in relation to 2007 when 122 gay, lesbian and transvestite murders were registered. Last year, gays were the largest number of victims (64%), while transvestites represented 32%, and lesbians 4%.<br><br>
This statistic is the result of the survey taken by the Gay Group of Bahia (GGB) under the coordination of the anthropologist Luiz Mott, founder of the group. The study has been published annually since 1980.
(PDF - 96 Kb) Document Date: 20 Apr 2009 (Downloads: 99)
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Fighting AIDS in Conservative Mauritania - by Ebrima Sillah, www.ipsnews.net, on 08/04/09: http://ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=47951 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"'With a predominantly Muslim population that seeks guidance from the Quran, any advocacy outside the main parameters of religion is more often than not frowned upon, derided and scorned,' says John Sadeed head OF NADOA, an advocacy NGO in Mauritania that promotes attitudinal changes and positive living for those people with HIV. <br><br>
The power and prestige of clerics in Mauritania means that campaigners cannot simply ignore their resistance if the message is to be well-received by the population. 'Campaigners against HIV/AIDS are caught between their conviction to right such wrongs and a covert fear not to offend religious and social sensibilities that could alienate the very people we seek to help through the right information,' Sadeed told IPS."
(PDF - 190 Kb) Document Date: 4 Aug 2009 (Downloads: 81)
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Man gets prison, lashes for gay video - by ADNAN AL-SHABRAWI, www.saudigazette.com.sa on 11/11/10: http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2010110886984 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
JEDDAH: A 27-year-old Saudi man was sentenced to five years in prison, 500 lashes of the whip, and a SR50,000 fine after appearing in a recent amateur gay video online allegedly taken inside a Jeddah prison. <br><br> Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Shathri, judge of the District Court in Jeddah, handed down the verdict for crimes including homosexuality, imitating women, and possessing pornographic video clips.
(PDF - 64 Kb) Document Date: 11 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 88)
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SOMALIA: Increased sexual violence raises HIV concerns - by www.plusnews.org on 08/16/07: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73769 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"NAIROBI, 16 August 2007 (PlusNews) - Escalating violence in Somalia is increasing the incidence of sexual attacks against women and girls and heightening their risk of HIV infection, say humanitarian workers based in the region. <br><br>
'There has been no system in place in Somalia where people could get PEP [post-exposure prophylaxis],' said Dr Penina Gathuri, sexual and gender-based violence (SBGV) coordinator for UNFPA in Somalia. 'Rape survivors were given antibiotics or painkillers - whatever the health centre had - but no treatment for HIV.'"
(PDF - 189 Kb) Document Date: 16 Aug 2007 (Downloads: 87)
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Sri Lanka: Taboo reinforces ignorance about HIV - by www.plusnews.org on 080510: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=90077 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Those living with HIV face daily discrimination. Sampath Gunarathna, 28, quit his job in Colombo after a positive test result in 2007. 'The biggest challenge I faced after being diagnosed was the shame I felt about myself,' he told IRIN/PlusNews. 'I do feel [that] society looks down on me ... It is very much living a dead life; there is not much hope.' <br><br>
Although there was some awareness about HIV among urban populations, Jinadasa stressed that HIV was still a taboo subject in rural areas. 'There is an understanding about HIV, and how it is sexually [transmitted], but people have very limited understanding about alternative ways it can spread - for example, they do not know that it can spread through sharing needles.'"
(PDF - 120 Kb) Document Date: 5 Aug 2010 (Downloads: 90)
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Transexuales de El Salvador alertan del Sida y de violencia, el año pasado fueron asesinadas cerca de 20 trans / Transgenders in El Salvador warn about HIV and violence, last year close to 20 transgenders were murdered- by www.carlaantonelli.com, on 04/19/10: http://www.carlaantonelli.com/notis-20042010-transexuales-salvador-alertan-sida-crimenes.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Hernández asegura que el año pasado se registraron más de veinte asesinatos de LGTB, la mayoría transexuales. Según denuncias de defensores de los derechos de estos colectivos, varias de ellas ejercían la prostitución y fueron torturadas. <br><br>
"Hay mucha violencia, nos están matando, violan nuestros derechos. Es una doble discriminación por tener VIH y por ser homosexuales", explicó Hernández, quien dice que, pese a ello, siguen trabajando en su labor de prevención pues el sida se ha convertido en un problema de salud primario para ese colectivo. <br><br> El estigma y la discriminación son los retos inmediatos. Sobre todo en las comunidades del interior, porque allí es la propia condena a muerte decir que se es gay", indicó Yarza.<br><br>
Hernández assures that last year more than 20 murders of LGBT people were recorded, the majority of them transsexuals. According to reports of defenders of the rights of these groups, several of them practiced prostitution and they were tortured.<br><br>
"There's a lot of violence, they're killing us, they violate our rights. It is double discrimination for having HIV and for being homosexuals," explained Hernández who says that, in spite of it, they continue working at their job of prevention since AIDS has become a primary health problem for this community.<br><br>
Stigma and discrimination are the immediate challenges. Above all with the communities in the provinces, because there it is a real death sentence to say that one is gay," indicated Yarza.
(PDF - 307 Kb) Document Date: 19 Apr 2010 (Downloads: 97)
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Rights group rejects African lesbians- Rex Wockner International News # 863 11/08/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The African Commission on Human and People's Rights has rejected an
application for observer status from the Coalition of African Lesbians. <br><br>
A recent letter from the commission's secretary, Mary Maboreke, provided
no reason for the decision, saying simply, "The ACHPR has deliberated on
your application and decided not to grant Observer Status to the Coalition
of African Lesbians."
(PDF - 21 Kb) Document Date: 8 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 84)
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Criminalizing Identities Rights Abuses in Cameroon based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity- By HRW, IGLHRC, Alternatives-Cameroun, and ADEFHO, 04/11/10: http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2010/11/04/criminalizing-identities-0 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
(Yaoundé, November 4, 2010) ? Cameroonians are attacked by police, politicians, the media, and even their own communities if they are suspected of having sexual relations with a person of the same sex, four human rights organizations said in a joint report released today.<br><br>
The government should take urgent action to decriminalize such consensual conduct and to ensure the full human rights of all Cameroonians, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, said Alternatives-Cameroun, l?Association pour la défense des droits des homosexuels, Human Rights Watch, and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
(PDF - 2,231 Kb) Document Date: 4 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 93)
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Gay Ugandans targeted after outing- by JODY CLARKE, www.mg.co.za - Oct 29 2010: http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-10-29-gay-ugandans-targeted-after-outing (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Kitaka is one of 100 people listed in an October 9 article in Uganda's Rolling Stone newspaper, which featured a list of the country's 100 "top" homosexuals. Across the front-page story ran a bright, yellow banner that read: "Hang them." <br><br>
At least three other people have been attacked and many more are in hiding since the publication in the two-month-old newspaper, started by journalism students.<br><br>
It included the photos and addresses of many of those "named and shamed", with claims that the country's gay community was trying to "recruit" a million children by raiding schools and that a deadly disease causing "shattered flesh" was spreading through it.
(PDF - 65 Kb) Document Date: 29 Oct 2010 (Downloads: 122)
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Gays in China: Just Another Minority As with other groups, official opposition to gays occurs only when the government feels threatened by unity or organizing.- by Isaac Stone Fish- www.newsweek.com- November 01, 2010: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/01/gays-in-china-just-another-minority.print.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
While there are signs that China is slouching toward acceptance of homosexuality, no one will mistake any of the country?s metropolises for San Francisco anytime soon. Advances over the past two years, including China?s first gay-pride event in Shanghai in 2009 and the phenomenon of gay couples posing for wedding pictures in front of Beijing?s historical sites, are marred by the extensive discrimination urban homosexuals still face in the workplace and at home, strong family pressure to marry, and the lack of enforced laws to protect their rights. <br><br> The government?s attitude toward gay groups resembles the way it treats ethnic minorities. It distrusts any group, whether Tibetans fighting for freedom of worship or gay activists agitating for marriage rights, whose goals ostensibly don?t line up with those of the majority. ?In this kind of system, the government fears all sorts of minorities,? says Wei Xiaogang, host of the LGBT Webcast Queer Comrades.
(PDF - 193 Kb) Document Date: 1 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 130)
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Uganda's Rolling Stone paper told to stop outing gays- by BBC News on 11/01/10: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11666789?print=true (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Giles Muhame, editor of the two-month-old Rolling Stone paper, told the AFP news agency that he would defy the ban. <br><br>
"We will publish more pictures but in a diplomatic way, so that we can dodge the law," he said.<br><br> Smug said several of its members were attacked or harassed after the first issue.<br><br>
The group's Frank Mugisha said one woman was almost killed after her neighbours started throwing stones at her house.
(PDF - 79 Kb) Document Date: 1 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 125)
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Asesinan a travestí nica en Costa Rica / A Nicaraguan Transvestite is murdered in Costa Rica-by www.elnuevodiario.com.ni on 06/20/08: http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/19217 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Carlos Alberto Novoa Guerrero, de 32 años, travestí nicaragüense reconocido en su mundo como "Nathaly", fue asesinado por un certero disparo en la nuca en un caño en Costa Rica. <br><br>Las autoridades por su parte investigan si existe una relación entre los dos hechos, puesto que incluso en la parte de atrás del vehículo estaba escrita a mano la palabra 'Gay'.<br><br>
Carlos Alberto Novoa Guerrero, 32 years old, a Nicaraguan transvestite known in his world as "Nathaly," was murdered by a well-aimed shot in the nape of the neck in an estuary in Costa Rica.<br><br>
The authorities for their part are investigating if there exists a relationship between the two facts, given that in the rear part of the car the word 'Gay" was written by hand.
(PDF - 104 Kb) Document Date: 20 Jun 2008 (Downloads: 120)
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China: Hong Kong judge rules against trans marriage- INTERNATIONAL NEWS #862 -by Rex Wockner on November 01, 2010 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
A trial court judge in Hong Kong ruled against letting a postoperative
male-to-female transsexual get married Oct. 5. <br><br>
Judge Andrew Cheung expressed worry about the consequences of recognizing
sexual-reassignment surgery for marriage purposes, saying it would have
implications for preoperative transsexuals and same-sex couples, and for
family, social-welfare, criminal and immigration law.
(PDF - 21 Kb) Document Date: 1 Nov 2010 (Downloads: 128)
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Letter to Turkish ministers in regards to treatment of human rights defenders from Pembe Hayat LGBTT by Human Rights Watch on 10/18/10: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/10/08/letter-turkish-ministers-regards-treatment-human-rights-defenders-pembe-hayat-lgbtt (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The five members of Pemba Hyatt were arbitrarily arrested and brutally assaulted by the Ankara police on May 17, 2010, and on June 18, they were indicted for alleged crimes arising from the events of that day. We believe that the evidence available suggests both that the police use of force was unnecessary and therefore illegal and that no evidence has been produced to warrant criminal charges against the five. In a year that began with the murder of two other transgender women, this attack is only the latest development in the ongoing persecution of transgender people in Turkey. We urge the government of Turkey to take concrete steps to provide protection for these and other transgender individuals who are regularly subjected to violence and harassment, including by the police.
(PDF - 124 Kb) Document Date: 18 Oct 2010 (Downloads: 91)
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Homosexuality and the battle for Africa's soul - by Mark Gevisser, www.mg.co.za: on 06/04/10: http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-06-04-homosexuality-and-the-battle-for-africas-soul (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"'These boys committed a crime against our culture, our religion and our laws," said the Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika at the weekend as he pardoned Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga from their sentence of 14 years hard labour. He claimed he was exercising the pardon "on humanitarian grounds". If he were more truthful, he would have said it was on diplomatic, or expedient grounds; his country is almost entirely dependent on foreign aid, and the pressure on him was intense." <br><br> "Recently the Palestinian academic Joseph Massad wrote a controversial book accusing gay funders and activists of becoming a proseletysing neocolonial "Gay International", and of provoking unneccesary cultural conflict in the Arab world by imposing their Western "orientalist" definitions of gay identity on societies they deeply misunderstood. Such provocations, he wrote, land up making things worse, rather than better, for the people they are trying to assist, because of the backlash they provoke. Do Massad's arguments hold any water in sub-Saharan Africa? Would homosexuals in Malawi or Uganda be any better off if the "Gay International" (perhaps best personified in the person of Peter Tatchell) had not been activated?"
(PDF - 335 Kb) Document Date: 4 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 131)
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Zambia: It's difficult to understand homosexuality - Rupiah -by www.lusakatimes.com on 10/19/10: http://www.lusakatimes.com/2010/10/19/difficult-understand-homosexuality-rupiah/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"President Rupiah Banda has said that it is difficult for him to understand how anybody would tolerate homosexuals in the Zambian society." <br><br> "You can imagine how difficult it is for me when it comes to laws whether or not to permit homosexuality in our society.What is worse is that our cooperating partners, who are more influential than us because of their moneys, actually many of them have come to glorify it, talking to our young people and making them believe that homosexuality was a human right," President Banda said." <br><br> "The President however pointed out that there was need to sensitise young people about ?foreign? sexual practices such as homosexuality."
(PDF - 109 Kb) Document Date: 19 Oct 2010 (Downloads: 103)
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Gays Reportedly Attacked in Uganda After Newspaper Publishes List of 'Top 100' Homosexuals Published October 20, 2010 | FoxNews.com; http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/10/20/ugandan-embassy-defends-equal-rights-gay-list-appears-newspaper/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
At least four gays have been attacked in Uganda since the publication of a front-page newspaper story that listed the African nation's 100 "top" homosexuals, according to activists there. <br><br>
The Oct. 9 article in a Ugandan newspaper called Rolling Stone included photographs and addresses of the 100 individuals alongside a yellow banner that read: "Hang Them." <br><br> In the weeks since the article was published, at least four of the people on the list have been attacked and many others are hiding, Ugandan civil rights activist Julian Onziema told the Associated Press.
(PDF - 106 Kb) Document Date: 20 Oct 2010 (Downloads: 98)
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'Fight or flight' for lesbians in Morocco - Source: www.tetu.com/[Google translation] By Habibou Bangré , on LGBT Asylum news, 10/20/10: http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2010/10/fight-or-flight-for-lesbians-in-morocco.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Experience illegal. In the Moroccan kingdom, homosexuality is punishable by three years in prison and the company sees a dim view of gay relationships and lesbians - the ruling outlawed by Islam the state religion. <br><br>
"Very often when we talk about homosexuality, we think more men than women," observes sociologist Sanaa El Aji. The latter being regarded as sex objects desired, not considering the popular imagination they can have sex outside of man, they may have desires and want them too ... "
(PDF - 505 Kb) Document Date: 20 Oct 2010 (Downloads: 144)
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