Sexual Minorities

Q&A: Inclusive Sex Education Needed in African Schools

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 11 (IPS) - With the exception of South Africa, most African countries criminalise same-sex relationships with imprisonment, while incidents of violence against gay women and men are poorly investigated and...

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Iacobucci: Recognizing History of Residential Schools a “Necessary Stepâ€_ (Law is Cool)

Notes from a keynote speech by Justice Iacobucci at the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (FACL) Fall Conference. Grew up in the East End of Vancouver, where there was lots of diversity of people from many backgrounds.Â...

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Planned Parenthood: Your Tax Dollars at Work

"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." -Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood"[Our goal is] to be ready as educators and parents to help young people obtain sex...

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Violence against Women and Information Communication Technologies: Uganda Country Report:...

Aramanzan Madanda, Berna Ngolobe and Goretti Zavuga Amuriat look at how ICTs have been used to help provide spaces for women and sexual minorities. Sexual minorities have a presence on the internet to articulate concerns of...

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Evening All

Go on, you say it too. Confuse those ethnic minorities. Not that i personally think they are at all bothered by its use myself. ---Quote--- *David Wilkes October 26, 2009* POLICE officers in the UK have been told to avoid using...

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Why Kenyan Constitution Must Protect Gays

A country's soul is measured by how poorly - or well - it treats minorities. That's why it is very alarming for a member of the Committee of Experts to opine that the draft constitution will not protect gay rights because a...

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International AIDS Society Urges Strong/Swift Opposition to Proposed Anti-Homosexuality...

In a press release today, the International AIDS Society (IAS) urged Uganda’s political and public health leaders to oppose and reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill presented last week in Uganda’s parliament. RH Reality Check...

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Socially Conservative Pols & Conservative "Christian" Organizations Unhappy About Hate Crime Bill

Well, the Los Angeles Times reported that House OKs measure to make anti-gay violence a hate crime . We caught it in a recent diary as well . So whoo-boy -- like we didn't see this barrage of unhappy commentary coming from the...

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Michel Sidibé congratulates Indian sexual minority communities for uniting against Section 377

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé attended an event in Delhi today to recognize the activists whose efforts contributed towards the recent annulment of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalized consensual...

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Boehner: ‘Just Plain Wrong' for Democrats to Attach Hate Crimes Measure to Defense Authorization...

Friday, October 09, 2009 By Pete Winn, Senior Writer/Editor House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – GOP congressmen accuse House Democrats of “using” the military and an otherwise bipartisan...

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