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Human Rights Watch: Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Rights

Regularly update, this website presents articles, press releases, open letters, links and detailed reports on gay, lesbian and transgender rights.

http://hrw.org/doc/?t=lgbt

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Human Rights Watch: The 2007 Hall of Shame

'Hall of Shame' Exposes Dangers of High-Level Homophobia International Day Against Homophobia Highlights Persistence of Prejudice. (Human Rights Watch)

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/05/16/global15955.htm

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International Day against Homophobia

International Day against Homophobia is an initiative held on May 17, to commemorate the date on which the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its roster of disorders in 1990. This website has information on the day's celebrations, as well as profiles of homosexual human rights in each of the world's countries, and the latest articles and reports on gay and lesbian rights.

http://www.idahomophobia.org/index.php3?lang=en

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International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

The mission of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission is to secure the full enjoyment of the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation or expression, gender identity or expression, and/or HIV status. A US-based non-profit NGO, IGLHRC effects this mission through advocacy, documentation, coalition building, public education, and technical assistance.

http://www.iglhrc.org

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More Than a Name: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in Southern Africa

Human Rights Watch and The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2003. In this report, Human Rights Watch and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) document and analyze the impact of state-sponsored homophobia in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, and Botswana. The report shows how these attacks attempt to create an atmosphere of intolerance in which governments can erode the basic principles of human rights, and individuals can abuse others with impunity. It contrasts these to the different situation in South Africa, where the constitution has promised an end to discrimination based on sexual orientation-but where a lack of will as well as foresight has kept these promises short of fulfillment.

http://hrw.org/reports/2003/safrica/

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MSM, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in South Asia

It is increasingly being recognised by people of good will, that responses to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and its local manifestations, cannot be effective unless the human rights of those infected with and affected by the virus are clearly and unequivocally addressed. The virus is not only about personal behaviours, but is also about the social, economic and cultural environment in which behaviours take place and have meaning. This is particularly true with regard to sexual behaviours and practices, and none more so than for those who term "men who have sex with men", or MSM. Denial, ignorance, illegality, myths, fears, violence, abuse, exclusion, invisibility, all these feature in current discourses on MSM issues. Such understandings will have a significant impact on rights-based approaches to HIV/AIDS.(Shivananda Khan, Naz Foundation International)

http://www.alternatevisions.org/publications/MSM%20&%20Human%20Rights.pdf

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Off the Map: How HIV/AIDS Programming is Failing Same-Sex Practicing People in Africa

This report from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission explores the ways in which governments, donors, and NGOs are denying a basic set of human rights protections to same-sex practicing Africans, and the denial on efforts to combat the AIDS epidemic.

http://www.iglhrc.org/files/iglhrc/otm/Off%20The%20Map.pdf

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OUTfront! Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Human Rights

Around the world, the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people are violated daily. People are beaten, imprisoned and killed by their own governments simply for engaging in homosexual acts. Those suspected of being LGBT are also routinely the victims of harassment, discrimination and violence. Many of those who speak up for LGBT rights - regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity - are themselves persecuted with impunity. Learn more and take action on this Amnesty International page.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/outfront/index.do

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The Role of the Yogyakarta Principles

This article by Douglas Sanders provides insight into the challenges the UN faces in integrating the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI)within its greater mandate of huamn rights and within its own institutions.

http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/section.php?id=5&detail=868

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Troubled Island

This article looks at the complex issues surrounding homosexuality and homophobia in Jamaica, one of the world's most violent and unequal societies. "We who are homosexuals are seen as the 'devil's own children' ... and passed by on the other side of the street or beaten to death by our fellow citizens" - Brian Williamson, murdered gay activist. "I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays" - Beenie Man, dancehall artist. "Homosexuals would find no solace in any cabinet formed" - Opposition leader Bruce Golding. (Gary Younge, The Guardian, 27 April 2006)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,,1762155,00.html

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Using Edutainment to Reach Sexual Minority People [pdf]

This paper shares the experience of producing two multidisciplinary communication projects that aim to raise awareness and discussion around lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTI) rights, health, and HIV/AIDS. (by Tonya Graham, CMFD Productions, April 2008)

http://www.cmfd.org/cmfdpubs/usingedutainmenttoreachsexualminoritypeople.pdf

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We Need a Law for Liberation: Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights in a Changing Turkey

Turkey should urgently change law and policy to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from extensive harassment and brutality on the streets, in homes, and in state-run institutions, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.

http://hrw.org/reports/2008/turkey0508/

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