Sexuality

مصر: الزواج العرفي بين طلبة الجامعات في مصر

في ممرات جامعة القاهرة يشاهد العديد من الطلبة والطالبات الذين يجلسون بجانب بعضهم ولا يندر مشاهدة عدد منهم وهم يمسكون بأيدي بعضهم في الزوايا القصية

المغرب:الأمهات العازبات بالمغب

الحمل بدون زواج في المجتمع المغربي موسوم بالعار والفضيحة و يعاقب عليه القانون بل أكثر من ذلك يؤدي إلى تهميش الأم الحامل و إقصائها اجتماعيا. فالظاهرة التي نسميها إجرائيا بالأمهات العازبات، تعد جد معقدة و متشابكة العوامل لأنها ترتبط بعدة مجالات من بينها: القانون، الدين و الجنس تؤطرها كلها عقلية ذكورية مازالت تفرض تأثيرها في المجتمع. ترى كيف نشأت ظاهرة الأمهات العازبات ؟ وما العمل لتغيير ثقافة الاحتقار بالمجتمع المغربي؟

ذهنية التحريم…!

United Kingdom: Iranian lesbian makes her appeal against removal by authorities

I, Kiana Firouz, an Iranian Lesbian, born in 1983 in Tehran/Iran, have sought asylum in the U.K but my application was turned down by the Home Office, despite accepting the fact that I am a lesbian. I accordingly submitted my appeal which was dismissed incredibly by the adjudicator. According to my solicitor’s point of view there is a little chance to grant a permission to appeal against the adjudicator’s decision. It means that I will face with deportation soon.

Uganda: Tutu: Our gay brothers & sisters across Africa are living in fear

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity -- or because of their sexual orientation. Nor should anyone be excluded from health care on any of these grounds. In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. We knew this was wrong. Thankfully, the world supported us in our struggle for freedom and dignity.

Indonesia: LGBT Activism Under Attack in Surabaya

Grace Poore and Ging Cristobal, staff members of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) were in Surabaya, Indonesia for the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Asia conference scheduled to begin in the East Java capital on March 26 and run through March 29, 2010.

Uganda: Clergy and civil society call to stop anti-homosexuality bill

Leading African clergy and prominent individuals, as well as more than 60 civil society and human rights groups from 10 sub-Saharan African countries have endorsed a statement calling on the President, Government and Parliament of Uganda to reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in its entirety.

Iraq/UK: Failure of UK government recognition of threat to Iraqi LGBT leader

The UK government through its Border Agency has decided not to give priority to the asylum application of Iraqi LGBT leader Ali Hili, in exile in London. The application has been outstanding for nearly three years and while it is outstanding, Ali cannot travel. This decision directly impacts not just on Ali but on harshly persecuted Iraqi lesbians and gays through the reduced ability of their sole visible leader to raise their profile internationally.

Africa: Responding to Violence against Sexual Minorities

08/03/2010: We need to understand what it means to be heterosexual as well as homosexual, and that our sexualities affect whether we live or die. During this 54th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women on the occasion of the 15+year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform, the Coalition of African Lesbians (“CAL”) reinforces that: LGBTI rights are human rights, that we are not claiming or asking for “special” or “additional” rights BUT that we call on our African governments to condemn the violence perpetrated against sexual minorities, to refrain from engaging in this violence and to take all measures to ensure the protection of sexual minorities, in particular, lesbian and transgender women subjected to violence.

UPDATE: Uganda: UNSRs warn parliamentarians of last chance to shelve Anti-Homosexuality Bill

With its third and final reading imminent before the Ugandan Parliament, two UN Special Rapporteurs* voiced their deep concerns about the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which, if adopted, would have an extremely damaging impact on the important and legitimate work of human rights defenders in the country, and would curtail fundamental freedoms. “The Bill would not only violate the fundamental rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Ugandan people,” stressed Margaret Sekaggya and Frank La Rue, “but would also criminalize the legitimate activities of men and women, as well as national and international organizations, who strive for the respect for equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.” Update on: Uganda: UN human rights chief urges shelving of “draconian” law on homosexuality

France: Les transsexuels ne sont plus des malades

Un décret a sorti le transsexualisme des « affections psychiatriques de longue durée ».Le transsexualisme n’est plus une maladie mentale dans notre pays. La France est ainsi le premier pays au monde à faire cette démarche par un décret publié, mercredi dernier, au Journal officiel. Ce décret du ministère de la Santé supprime « les troubles précoces de l’identité de genre » d’un article du Code de la Sécurité sociale relatif aux « affections psychiatriques de longue durée ». Roselyne Bachelot, ministre de la Santé, avait annoncé, le 16 mai 2009, à la veille de la Journée mondiale de la lutte contre l’homophobie et la transphobie, sa volonté de ne plus considérer les transsexuels (50 000 personnes environ) comme des malades psychiatriques.