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Contents:
- LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS AS A EE SPEECH ISSUE: A REVIEW OF RELEVANT SELAW
- GAY RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH
- HOW THE BRISH EMPIRE'S GAY RIGHTS LEGACY IS STILL KILLG PEOPLE TO THIS DAY
LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS AS A EE SPEECH ISSUE: A REVIEW OF RELEVANT SELAW
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Makg a statement durg Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO-T).
GAY RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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On the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO-T), 17 May, we ll on all lears the world to ensure that all people n speak their mds whout fearg vlence or timidatn, no matter what their sexual orientatn or genr inty. Too many people are silenced bee of their sexual orientatn or genr inty, or for speakg out on issu affectg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people. Homosexual acts are illegal 81 untri and punishable by ath 10 untri.
More Stat are nsirg or enactg laws that ban “propaganda of homosexualy” – sayg anythg posive about LGBT rights, jog a march or para, or a support group or mpaign group, n rult prosecutn, imprisonment or worse. NON-IFEX MEMBER#ENDhatelaws CoalnABGLTAção EdutivaAccepts-TACCSI Acción Ciudadana Contra el SidaAfectadas por el VIH-Sida en Honduras (APUVIMEH)Ain Network for Preventn and Protectn of Child Abe and Neglect (ANPPCAN) – Malawi ChapterAkahata ACAkham algeriaAlbanian Helski CommteeAmnty InternatnalANAMARGARITA ROJASAPUVIMEH – HondurasArab Foundatn for Freedoms and EqualyÁrea Derechos HumanosAs PelangiAsociación Civil CAMBIO y ACCIÓNAsociación Para Una Vida Mejor Personas InfectadasAssociação ILGA Portugal – Intervenção Lésbi, Gay, Bissexual e TransgéneroAssociatn for Progrsive CommunitnsAssociatn for Women’s Rights Development (AWID)Associazne radile Certi DirtiAstraea Lbian Foundatn for JticeAvers SamaraBandhu Social Welfare Society, BanglashBedayaaBeLonG ToBlue Diamond Society, NepalCamASEAN Youth’s FutureCanadian HIV/AIDS Legal NetworkCapal Pri; CanadaCasa Renacer -HondurasCenter for Natnal and Internatnal Studi, AzerbaijanCHERL – Iquos – PeCIVICUS: World Alliance For Cizen ParticipatnColectivo TLGB BoliviaColors Rabow (Myanmar)Comé Idaho France en FranceCommon Language, ChaCommonwealth Human Rights IniativeCouncil for Global EqualyDIVERLEX Diversidad e Igualdad a Través la LeyDrodrolagi MovementECOM – Eurasian Coaln on Male HealthELENA HERNÁIZEQUAL GROUND, Sri LankaEuropean Parliament Intergroup on LGBT RightsFabryka Równości (The Equaly Factory)Feratn of Dutch associatns for the tegratn of homosexualy COC NetherlandsFemist and LGBT Organizatn “Genr-L” (St. Petersburg)Fundación Ecuatoriana EquidadFUNDACIÓN ECUATORIANA EQUIDAD – EcuadorFundación Ecuatoriana YUNTAFUUNDACIÓN REFLEJOS DE VENEZUELAGALANG PhilippGalha LGBT HumanistsGay Japan NewsGay, Lbian & Straight Edutn NetworkGAYa NUSANTARAGlobal Fah and Jtice ProjectGlobal Jtice InstuteGpo Autoapoyo RenacerGpo DignidaGpo Lbi- Bisexual XotchiQuetzal -HondurasHs of KhameleonHelski Cizens’ Assembly – VanadzorHERA -Health Edutn and Rearch Associatn MacedoniaHIVOSHuman Rights FirstHuman Rights Movement “Bir Duo-Kyrgyzstan”Idaho- JapanILGA-EuropeInstute for Development and Communy Health – LIGHTInstuto Brasileiro Diversida SexualINSTITUTO RUNA Darrollo y Estuds sobre GéneroInternatnal Bar Associatn’s Human Rights InstuteInternatnal Feratn of Journalists – Asia-PacificInternatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights CommissnInternatnal Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer Youth and Stunt Organisatn (IGLYO)Internatnal Humanist and Ethil Unn (IHEU)Internatnal IDAHO CommteeInternatnal Planned Parenthood FeratnInternatnal Service for Human RightsIwate Rabow NetworkKaleidospe TstKaos GL AssociatnKazakhstan Internatnal Bure for Human Rights and Rule of LawLbenanisatn SchweizLbian and Gay Feratn Germany LSVDLbian Sectn SKUC-LL, Ljubljana, SloveniaLGBT Centre of MongoliaLGBT Fom Progrs, MontenegroLGBT Human Rights of KoreaLGBT Organizatn “Center “Maximum” (Murmansk)LGBT VOICE TANZANIALGBTIQA anisatn “Labrys”, KyrgyzstanLietuvos gėjų lyga/Lhuanian Gay LeagueLLH – the Norwegian Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr anisatnMANODIVERSA ASSOCIATION CIVILMetropolan Communy ChurchMicro Rabow InternatnalMosw LGBT anizatn “Rabow Associatn”Mos KimbugweNatnal Network Agast Homophobia and Transphobia (Macedonia)Oceania PriOii-Che (Organizatn Intersex Internatnal – Che)OramPacific Sexual Diversy Network (PSDN)Pan Ai ILGAPINK Embassy / LGBT Pro AlbaniaPkAnatomy BotswanaQueer CypsRabow Actn Agast Sexual-Mory DiscrimatnRabow KanazawaRED DIVERSIFICADORES SOCIALES, SLP MéxicRegnal non-prof Organizatn “Comg Out” (St.
Days later, a neo-Nazi stunt admted the murr and claimed that he had met Tsilik onle and rried out the killg as csa “agast a certa social group” believed to refer to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT). Ansar-al-Islam, an Al-Qaida-lked group, claimed rponsibily for the murrs, statg that Mannan’s open claratn of his homosexualy, his ‘g out’ on the ter the weeks before the attack warranted his killg acrdg to Sharia Law. PEN Ameri’s report Silenced Voic, Threatened Liv examed the impact of Nigeria’s 2014 “anti-gay law” which amongst other dranian measur prcrib a prison term of ten years for anyone who “directly or directly mak public show of same sex amoro relatnship”.
HOW THE BRISH EMPIRE'S GAY RIGHTS LEGACY IS STILL KILLG PEOPLE TO THIS DAY
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Nigeria’s anti-gay law was jt one example of a seri of global anti-LGBT legislatn which has been troduced recent years particularly sub-Saharan Ai and former Soviet natns. In Uganda, for example, the passage of the anti-gay law there was followed by a ten-fold rise attacks on LGBT people, cludg torture, arrts, evictns and suici.
Take the se of Eric Lembembe, the Executive Director of the Cameroonian Foundatn for AIDS (CAMFAIDS), an LGBT rights activist and thor of several chapters the 2013 book, From Wrongs to Gay Rights. The Cameroonian thori’ utter failure to stem homophobic vlence sends the msage that the attacks n be rried out wh impuny. In Rsia, a 2013 law banng the dissematn of rmatn about so-lled “non-tradnal sexual relatns”, equently referred to as the “Gay Propaganda” law, is actively enforced by the thori.
In April 2017, the leadg pennt Rsian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, reported that the police Chechnya had abducted over 100 gay men, held them prisoner six different tentn s and tortured them. Others were returned to their fai who the police told were gay, an extraordarily dangero act such a nservative untry.