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Malawi: Country Not Safe for Homosexuals - by Claire Ngozo, allafrica.com, 03/13/10:http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/201003140001.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Another person who has fallen victim to Malawi's anti-gay stand is Peter Sawali, 21. On Feb. 8, he was convicted and sentenced to two weeks community service by the Blantyre magistrates' court for mounting posters promoting gay rights along the commercial capital's main road, the Masauko Chipembere Highway. <br><br>
"Sawali was found guilty of conduct likely to cause breach of peace," said Beatrice Mwachande, the police spokesperson for Blantyre. <br><br> Rights organisations are concerned about the apparent targeting of homosexuals. The hunt for gay people will only prompt this "vulnerable group" to go underground, according to Gift Trapense, director of human rights organisation the Centre for the Development of People.
(PDF - 247 Kb) Document Date: 13 Mar 2010 (Downloads: 93)
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St Petersburg First Gay Pride Banned by City Hall but organizers will go ahead Pride- Chief Organizer called the ban an embargo on civil rights- by GayRussia.Ru on 06/23/10: http://gayrussia.ru/en/news/detail.php?ID=16017 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Last Friday, the city hall already turned down a first request with three itineraries and suggested that a new application is filed." <br><br>
After organizers proposed three new options, the answers from the city hall came unchanged. St Petersburg Gay Pride March is banned this year. <br><br> "Meanwhile, St Petersburg City Hall gave clearance to the Youth fraction of Prime Minister Putin's Party "United Russia" to organize a March in support of traditional family values which will take place the same day than the banned Pride March. Organizers of the action said that they are categorically against any public rally of sexual minorities in the city."
(PDF - 106 Kb) Document Date: 23 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 134)
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Home Office loses gay Algerian deportation case - By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk 10/27/07: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-5848.html/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The Home Office had argued the 27-year-old man, referred to as B, would be safe from persecution as long as he was discreet about his homosexuality." <br><br> "However Mr Justice Collins disagreed, saying that B, who has been fighting to remain in the UK since 1996, was at risk of persecution."
(PDF - 97 Kb) Document Date: 24 Oct 2007 (Downloads: 84)
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Homosexualidad: bajo el terror Transexuales denuncian cometen 10 asesinatos desde el año 2006 / Homosexuality: Under Terror Transexuals denounce that 10 murders have taken place since 2006- by José Rafael Sosa , www.elnacional.com.do on 06/23/10: http://www.elnacional.com.do/reportajes/2010/6/23/52268/Homosexualidad-bajo-el-terror (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"La organización Transsa Siempre Amigas, que organiza a jóvenes de orientación sexual diversa, incluyendo a quienes hacen trabajo sexual en determinadas avenidas, denunció que en República Dominicana se incrementa el número de crímenes contra las personas ?gays?.<br><br>
"Cristian King, secretario general de Transsa, sostuvo hoy en rueda de prensa realizada en el Consejo Presidencial del SIDA, que el único detenido por los crímenes de odio en el país, identificado como Juan Bautista Herrera Vásquez (Melín), responsabilizado de la muerte de Ramón de Jesús Crisóstomo de León (Monchina), de 26 años, pretende obtener su libertad por gestión de sus abogados."<br><br>
"The organization Transsa Siempre Amigas(Trans Always Friends) which organizes youth with diverse sexual orientation, including those who do sex work on specific avenues, reported that in the Dominican Republic the number of crimes against "gay" people is increasing.<br><br>
"Cristian King, general secretary of Transsa, maintained today in a press conference held in the Presidential Commission for AIDS that the only person detained for hate crimes in the country, identified as Juan Bautista Herrera Vásquez (Melin), the one responsible for the death of Ramón de Jesús León (Monchina), 26 years old, seeks to gain his freedom through efforts of his lawyers."
(PDF - 161 Kb) Document Date: 23 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 94)
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Honduras: Es necesario transformar todo tipo de discriminación, dice comunidad de LGBT/ It is necessary to transform all types of discrimination- by www.adital.com.br on 06/22/10: http://www.adital.com.br/site/noticia.asp?lang=ES&cat=7&cod=48815 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Violaciones de derechos humanos y crímenes crueles se continúan dando en Honduras, país caribeño, desde el Golpe de Estado que depuso al entonces presidente Manuel Zelaya, el 28 de junio del año pasado." <br><br> "La comunidad LGBT (lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transexuales, travestis y trans-géneros) es la que más ha sufrido con asesinatos consecuencia del Golpe de Político. El número de víctimas ya pasa de 20. La información ofrecida por Erick Martínez, oficial de derechos humanos de la organización Kukulcán, durante el 6º Foro de Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular (FNRP), que abordó el tema Diversidad Sexual y Resistencia."<br><br>
"Human rights violations and cruel crimes continue happening in Honduras, a Caribbean country, since the coup d'etat which deposed the then president Manuel Zelaya, June 28 of last year."<br><br>
"The LGBT community (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, transvestites and trans-genders) is the one which has suffered the most with murders as a result of the Political Coup. The number of victims has already passed 20. The information offered by Erick Martinez, human rights official of the organization Kukulcán, during the 6th Forum of the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP), which tackled the theme of Sexual and Resistance Diversity."
(PDF - 75 Kb) Document Date: 22 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 134)
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Nuevo asesinato homofóbico en Hidalgo / New homophobic murder in Hidalgo- by Tania Meza Escorza, www.desdeabajo.org.mx, on 06/21/10: http://www.desdeabajo.org.mx/wordpress/?p=3226 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Fernanda desapareció el pasado miércoles 16 de junio. Luego de una desesperada búsqueda por parte de sus compañeras de la asociación civil ?Transgénero Hidalgo?, su cuerpo se encontró el domingo en Actopan. Estaba amarrada, amordazada y con dos balazos en la cabeza. Era una activista entusiasta y vicepresidenta de la asociación presidida por Karen Quintero." <br><br> "El mes pasado, la Organización de la Sociedad Civil ?Letra S. Sida, Cultura y Vida Cotidiana?, presentó los resultados preliminares del informe ?Crímenes de odio por homofobia México 1995-2008?, mismos que señalan cinco asesinatos de este tipo en el estado de Hidalgo."<br><br>
"Fernanda disappeared last Wednesday, June 16.After a desperate search on the part of her friends from the civil association "Transgender Hidalgo," her body was found on Sunday in Actopan. She was tied up, gagged and had two bullets in the head. She was an enthusiastic activist and vice-president of the association presided over by Karen Quintero."<br><br>
"Last month, the Organization of the Civil society 'Letter S, AIDS, Culture and Daily Life,' presented the preliminary results of the report 'Hate crimes due to homophobia, Mexico, 1995-2008,' the very which showed five murders of this type in the state of Hidalgo."
(PDF - 40 Kb) Document Date: 21 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 146)
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Gay pride and prejudice in Kenya - by Nina Robinson, BBC News on 06/16/10: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10320057.stm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Ishmael, an openly gay Kenyan man living in the small coastal town of Mtwapa, just north of Mombasa, says that many gay men have come to live here, attracted by its open-minded and liberal atmosphere.<br><br>But this image of the town has been overshadowed by an increasingly vocal and mobilised anti-gay campaign which has been garnering local support.
This comes after similar moves in neighbouring Uganda and Malawi.
Human rights groups are warning that hardening attitudes to homosexuality in Africa are driving gays and lesbians underground.
(PDF - 70 Kb) Document Date: 16 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 141)
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How religious leaders fuel homophobia in Burundi - Jerina Chendze Messie - mask.org.za - 06/03/10 : http://www.mask.org.za/how-religious-leaders-fuel-homophobia- in-burundi/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The report states that religious leaders, by uttering hate speech against homosexuals and by describing homosexuality with words such as "ignoble practices", "abnormality", or "practices against nature", have knowingly "contributed in fuelling homophobia in a country where homosexuals are already struggling to live peacefully with their families and the general community due to unacceptance and discrimination. <br><br>
In order to assess the role played by religious groups when the anti
homosexuality bill was proposed and promulgated MOLI interviewed the leaders and one of them Monsignor Justin Nzoyisaba from the United Methodist Church, in the report, was quoted saying "homosexuality is indeed an illness, a vice introduced in Africa by westerners".
(PDF - 72 Kb) Document Date: 3 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 147)
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Saudi Arabia bans employment of gay, lesbian Filipino workers - by News Editor, www.fridae.com, on 06/10/10: http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/2010/06/10/10044.saudi-arabia-bans-employment-of-gay-lesbian-filipino-workers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fridae-news-en+%28Fridae+Editorial+-+News+%28English%29%29 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The Saudi Arabian government has reportedly directed recruitment agencies in Manila, Philippines not to recruit gay and lesbian workers for jobs in the Middle Eastern country. The Philipines-based GMA News on Jun 2 reported that the consular section of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia has sent a memorandum dated May 26 instructing recruitment agencies in Manila to be stricter in screening job applicants bound for the country said to be the top destination for migrant Filipino workers. ?Officials of recruitment agencies who are responsible in conducting interviews of job applicants to Saudi Arabia are strongly advised to screen them thoroughly so that those belonging to the third sex are excluded," the memo read. <br><br>
Last June, 67 Filipino men were arrested after they were found cross-dressing and drinking at a private party near the capital city of Riyadh. The men were subsequently sentenced to imprisonment and flogging but were pardoned and released in July the same year. None were charged with homosexual acts, a much more serious charge under Saudi law. GMA News quoted Vice Consul Roussel Reyes of the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh as saying that nearly 50 other Filipinos have been arrested and jailed in the past for similar violations. The report added that men caught wearing even just one article of women?s clothing could face three to six months imprisonment, and suffer between 50 and 100 lashes with a rattan stick. According to the International Lesbian and Gay Association, sodomy is illegal and punishable by death by stoning under Saudi-Arabia's Sharia law. All sexual relations outside of marriage are illegal, including sexual relations between women.
(PDF - 115 Kb) Document Date: 10 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 89)
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City denies permit for pride parade in St. Petersburg, Russia - Rex Wockner International News # 843 on 06/21/10 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The city government in St. Petersburg, Russia, denied a permit for the
first gay pride march, scheduled for June 26, citing construction work on
the route, GayRussia.ru reported. <br><br>
Officials told organizers to suggest a different route. <br><br>
Pride spokeswoman Maria Efremenkova said the city has a legal
responsibility to propose another route when a permit is denied, but, "We
are ready to negotiate with the authorities to ensure our action can take
place legally and ... we immediately submitted three new routes to City
Hall."
(PDF - 23 Kb) Document Date: 21 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 141)
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Country of Origin Information Report: Iraq - by UK Border Agency, www.homeoffice.gov.uk, on 09/16/09: http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/country_reports_iraq.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"The UNHCR Guidelines of April 2009 stated that:
?The Iraqi Government does not consider the killings of LGBT Iraqis a priority and a Ministry of Justice judge interviewed by Newsweek told the reporter not to waste time on an issue that he considered being ?very rare?. Generally, there is little tolerance towards homosexuality in Iraqi society and many Iraqis, including high-level officials, deny that homosexuality even exists in Iraq. Accordingly, those who commit acts of violence against homosexuals and others often do so with impunity.? [40b] (p194) <br><br>
The FCO human rights report for 2008 stated that ?We have received reports of violence committed against individuals because of their sexual orientation.? [66e] (Other vulnerable groups) The USSD report for 2008 stated:
?There were continued reports of societal discrimination and reported violence against individuals based on sexual orientation. Since 2003, the Iraqi Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organization stated that 430 gay men have been killed because of their sexual orientation. The international NGO provided shelter for an estimated 40 men between 14 and 28 in several Baghdad safe houses. During the year there were reports of discrimination and violence against homosexual men and women, mostly by militias. On September 25, a coordinator of the NGO was killed in Baghdad by militia members, according to press reports. There were no government statistics on discrimination or on government programs protecting such groups, and requests by news agencies for information have been largely ignored.? [2o] (p32)"
(PDF - 154 Kb) Document Date: 16 Sep 2009 (Downloads: 128)
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Gay and transgender struggle for acceptance in Indonesia- By Karishma Vaswani BBC News, Jakarta, 06/19/10: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10349050.stm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Three years ago he was living with his boyfriend in Aceh, one of Indonesia's most devoutly Islamic provinces, when a dozen people raided his house and turned the couple over to the police. <br><br>
"Hartoyo thought the police would protect them. Instead, the police assaulted them." <br><br> "The police urinated on my head and beat the two of us up. I am still traumatised by that experience."
(PDF - 169 Kb) Document Date: 19 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 131)
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HIV carriers in Saudi urged to report discrimination - by www.afp.com on 01/02/08: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iX9qCNv_v0ipPFZpPUIHVXirE47g (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
RIYADH (AFP) " A Saudi human rights watchdog is urging carriers of the AIDS virus to report any discrimination they suffer in the conservative Muslim kingdom, the Jeddah daily Arab News said on Wednesday. The National Society for Human Rights made the appeal ahead of the expected unveiling in March of draft legislation that will set out the rights of HIV carriers in Saudi Arabia for the first time, the paper said. The new bill could feature clauses to guarantee access to education, employment and travel, it added. Set up in 2004, the NSHR was the kingdom's first unofficial human rights group and describes itself as independent of the government. The most recent figures on HIV infection in Saudi Arabia date back to November 2005. Then a health ministry official said that nearly 11,000 cases had been reported since the first case was diagnosed in 1984. Of the 10,924 cases, 2,005 were among Saudis and 8,919 among expatriates, the official said."
(PDF - 108 Kb) Document Date: 2 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 132)
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Honduras: El incremento de los crímenes de odio y homofobia hacia la comunidad LGTB, a raíz del golpe de Estado cívico-religioso-militar, en Honduras / Increasing of hate crimes and homophobia towards LGTTB community because of Civic-Religious-Military coup d'etat in Honduras - Article by Walter Tróchez, translation by Adrian Pine, on www.tercerainformacion.es, 12/21/09: http://www.tercerainformacion.es/spip.php?article11753 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Translation text at : http://hondurasenlucha.blogspot.com/2009/12/walter-trochez-active-member-of.html <br><br> "For its part the LGTTB Rainbow Association and the TTT Collective of the City of San Pedro Sula, activists and defenders of human rights, denounce that since the coup d'etat there have been more hate crimes and homophobia promoted by the Honduran Religious Leadership in complicity with the Oppressive Groups like the Armed Forces, the National Secretary of Security, Private Enterprises, the Pro-Life Groups, Opus Dei, etc.. These crimes make evident once again the high levels of hate, stigma and discrimination against people of diverse sexualities which we call out as homophobia, lesbophobia, biphobia, and above all transphobia, suffered by those of us who have a different sexual orientation or gender identity from the heterosexual norm. On the ocassion of the loss of two friends this last week, we reiterate that it is NOT ACCEPTABLE that in these last four months, during such a short period, 9 trans and gay sisters and brothers have died cruelly and violently, 6 of them in San Pedro Sula and 3 in Tegucigalpa."
(PDF - 335 Kb) Document Date: 21 Dec 2009 (Downloads: 144)
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Iraqi police raid on Karbala safe house - by Paul, www.iraqilgtb.org.uk, on 06/19/10: http://iraqilgbt.org.uk/news-home/iraqi-police-raid-karbala-safe-house/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"There is growing concern that the Iraqi government is stepping up a witch-hunt against gays and lesbians in the country after a police raid on a Karbala safe house. <br><br> On Tuesday 16th June, twelve police officers burst into the house, then violently beat up, and blindfolded the six occupants sheltering there, before bundling them off in three vans. <br><br> According to a source who witnessed the raid, the police also confiscated computer equipment before burning down the house. According to reports, one of the arrested people has turned up in hospital. Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the other five individuals, which include two gay men, one lesbian and two transgender people. It is feared they may have been taken to the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, where, it is reported, many gay people have been tortured and executed in the last two years."
(PDF - 133 Kb) Document Date: 19 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 108)
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Jamaica: J-FLAG Remembers Fallen Brother and Calls for an End to Hate Crimes - by http://pinkreportjamaica.wordpress.com on 06/20/10: http://pinkreportjamaica.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/j-flag-remembers-fallen-brother-and-calls-for-an-end-to-hate-crimes/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Despite Jamaica signing onto three Organization of American States (OAS) Resolutions condemning violence against citizens because of their sexual orientation and gender identity, the country continues to record numerous human rights abuses of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender citizens. Between 2009 and 2010, J-FLAG received reports of some 16 cases of persons who suffered some form of discrimination and abuse including but not limited to being ejected from their homes, Lesbians being raped to ?make them straight.? and men being stabbed."
(PDF - 84 Kb) Document Date: 20 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 138)
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Movimientos de diversidad sexual en resistencia llaman a transformar desigualdad y exclusión / Sexual Diversity movements in opposition, call for a transformation of inequalities and exclusion - by 19 DE JUNIO DE 2010, by RED MORAZÁNICA DE INFORMACIÓN: http://www.resistenciahonduras.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=406:-movimientos-de-diversidad-sexual-en-resistencia-llaman-a-transformar-desigualdad-y-exclusion&catid=60:derechos-humanos&Itemid=244 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Tegucigalpa. 19 junio 2010. ?Vicky fue la primera víctima, murió por arma militar, le infirieron un disparo en el ojo, con salida explosiva,? no le quisieron hacer la autopsia. Evadiendo el dictamen forense, dijeron que era una persona que tenia VIH/sida;? Por ley toda persona tiene el derecho a una autopsia?, recriminó Erick Martínez, oficial de derechos humanos de la organización Kukulcán." <br><br> ?La mayoría de los asesinatos contra personas LGTB han sido hechos con saña y odio, sus genitales son mutilados y luego metidos en la boca?, describió Oscar Estrada, moderador del Foro.<br><br>
Tegucigalpa. June 19, 2010. "Vicky was the first victim, she died from a military weapon, they shot her in the eye, with an explosive exit. They didn't want to conduct an autopsy on her. Avoiding a forensic judgment. they said that she was a person who had HIV/AIDS. By law everyone has the right to an autopsy, reproached Erick Martinez, a human rights official from the organization Kukulcán.<br><br>
The majority of murders against LGBT people have been done with malice and hate. their genitals are mutilated and then stuck in their mouth, described Oscar Estrada, moderator of the Forum.
(PDF - 96 Kb) Document Date: 1 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 119)
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Russia Asks the United Nations to Dismiss Complaint of a Russian Lesbian - Gay activists called the Russian authorities' response a mix of "legal nonsense" and "incompetence"- by www.ukgaynews.org.uk/ on 06/19/10: http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/10/Jun/1901.htm (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
The Russian authorities have asked the United Nations Human Rights Committee to declare inadmissible the complaint lodged by a Russian lesbian who was fined by a court for the ?propaganda of homosexuality to minor? during a demonstration last year. <br><br>
On March 30, 2009, gay and lesbian activists held several demonstrations against the ban of the promotion of homosexuality in the city of Ryazan. They went out in the streets holding placards with slogans: ?Homosexuality is normal? and ?I am proud of my homosexuality ? Ask me about it?.
(PDF - 56 Kb) Document Date: 19 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 133)
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Standing up for S. African homosexuals Share By Mary Sanchez Published: Monday, Jun. 21, 2010, www.sacbee.com: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/06/21/2837228/standing-up-for-s-african-homosexuals.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"For now, the 2008 murder of Eudy Simelane, star of South Africa's women's national soccer team, is among the few cases to receive much notice at all. After Simelane became vocal about being a lesbian and pressing for rights, her body was found, gang- raped and stabbed repeatedly." <br><br>
"The struggles of lesbians in South Africa are merely a subset of widespread sexism there. Perhaps the heavy concentration on the male players competing has somehow disallowed much scrutiny of the seedier aspects of women's lives in South Africa." <br><br>
"The country is believed to have one of the highest rates of rape in the world, with almost half of all women raped during their lifetime, according to a 2009 report by the NGO ActionAid International. The report documented 31 murders of lesbians in hate attacks since 1998, and noted that for every 25 men brought to trial for rape, only one is convicted."
(PDF - 59 Kb) Document Date: 21 Jun 2010 (Downloads: 126)
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Syria: Call to change rules as Home Office says it is compassionate-By News.scotsman.com-10/03/08-http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Call-to--change-.4555210.jp (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> The 20-year-old, who is gay, arrived in the UK nearly three years ago after fleeing torture at the hands of Syrian secret police and prison guards.<br>He said the Syrian authorities inflicted beatings, burning, electric shocks and water torture on him after discovering he was homosexual. He had earlier been arrested and tortured for distributing leaflets on behalf of an anti-government Kurdish party.
(PDF - 102 Kb) Document Date: 3 Oct 2008 (Downloads: 116)
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