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Some governments’ broad counter-terrorism laws are punishing women and gays and suppressing groups pushing gender equality, a U.N. envoy of human rights and counter-terrorism said on Monday.
Many of these people are caught between being victims of extremist groups and victims of counter-terrorism measures, said Martin Scheinin, a U.N. special rapporteur on promotion and protection of [...]
Themba Mvubu, 24, from Kwathema, was found guilty of murdering, robbing and being an accessory to the rape of 31-year-old Eudy Simelane.
Activists at the magistrates court in Delmas, Mpumalanga province, hailed the judgment as “extremely important” in drawing attention to cases of murder and so-called “corrective rape” against lesbians in South Africa.
Simelane was one of [...]
“Women are getting killed in the Western Cape,” says Ndumie Funda, who runs LulekiSizwe in her “cabin” in the township of Gugulethu near Cape Town.
The project is named after her late fiancée, Nosizwe Nomsa Bizana, who was gang-raped by five men and subsequently succumbed to crypto meningitis, and Bizana’s friend Luleka Makiwane, who contracted HIV [...]
Two people died and at least 11 were hurt when the gunman opened fire at the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Association before fleeing.
The city’s Mayor, Ron Huldai, said the motive was unclear and police declined to comment except to say a Palestinian link was not suspected.
But the protesters condemned the attack as [...]
Community Members Speak Out Against New Law Criminalizing Homosexual Behavior
An April 2009 law that criminalizes homosexual conduct threatens to exacerbate the deplorable treatment of gays and lesbians in Burundi, Human Rights Watch has said in a multimedia project published.
The project, “Forbidden: Institutionalizing Discrimination against Gays and Lesbians in Burundi,” consists of printed and online narratives, [...]
Lesbians in China have set up an online petition to be allowed to donate blood.
According to state-run China Daily, the petition asks the government to repeal the 1998 ban.
The law means that anyone who states they are gay or lesbian on a blood donation form is automatically disqualified from donating. However, the is no penalty [...]
A court ruled Thursday to decriminalize homosexuality in the Indian capital, a groundbreaking decision that could bring more freedom to gays in this deeply conservative country.
The Delhi High Court ruled that treating consensual gay sex as a crime is a violation of fundamental rights protected by India’s constitution. The ruling, the first of its kind [...]
Bhakti Shah is challenging her dismissal from the Nepal Army for “immoral activities”
Two years ago, 23-year-old Bhakti Shah, a cadet in the Nepal Army, was dismissed because she was seen to spend most of her free time with a fellow female cadet.
“They sacked me and my friend just because they thought we were having an [...]
Hong Kong will still not recognise gay marriages or relationships
The Domestic Violence Ordinance will have an amendment to include same sex couples, the Hong Kong Government have announced. However, the Government has been keen to stress that this will not mean the government will legally recognise same sex marriages or relationships in any other respect.
Following [...]
Iceland formally elected Johanna Sigurdardottir, who is both the first woman and openly gay Prime Minister in the nation’s history in general elections Saturday. She is currently the only openly gay national leader in the world.
Sigurdardottir became interim prime minister when Former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned in January as a result of Iceland’s [...]
A power struggle in Singapore’s top women’s advocacy group has awakened the conservative city-state’s civil society and created rare public debate about the taboo issues of sex and religion.
As two groups of women were tussling to control Singapore’s Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), the pro-government media became a battleground where supporters and [...]
Late last month, when a jurist representing Turkey’s highest court in a briefing to the Justice Ministry suggested reducing Turkey’s legal marriage age for women to 14 and reducing the penalties for sexual attackers who agree to marry the woman they rape, the backlash from women’s organizations and gender equality groups was enormous.
The suggestion [...]
After Obama’s Victory: What’s Next for Women?
Even as jubilation among Democratic voters was still erupting after Sen. Barack Obama’s historic presidential victory, women’s groups began looking ahead to what comes next and how to get there.
From fixing the domestic health-care system and the economy, to making child care more accessible to working mothers, to rescinding [...]
Obama’s broad support from under-45s, blacks and women leaves only white males and rightwing bedrock to McCain
Barack Obama won the US presidential election by building a broad rainbow coalition of voters embracing younger people under 45, blacks, Hispanics, independents, moderates, people from most income groups, and women. But the Democrat’s race had a measurable effect, [...]
Victor Juliet Mukasa, a transgendered lesbian who works for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, said the LGBT community in her native Uganda is more united than it’s ever been before — in the face of unrelenting hostility.
In the latest acts of repression against Uganda’s LGBT community, three gay activists were arrested [...]
A leading human rights group has said it is concerned for the welfare of three gay protesters who forced their way into an international conference about HIV/AIDS prevention in Uganda organised by the UN.
There has been rising tension in the country over gay and lesbian rights.
Trans people are also targeted by police and regularly [...]
“Corrective Rape” at schools in the Western Cape is a growing concern, say non-governmental organisations, some of who have noted an “alarming” level of cases.
Earlier this year, the report by the Human Rights Commission on school violence mentioned the growing crime, where heterosexual male pupils rape lesbian pupils, believing that this will make them heterosexual.
A [...]
As one travels from urban to rural India, the voices change. They become wary, muted and afraid.
But that’s not without reason. In a town in Gujarat, a group whose identity is virtually a secret, reaches out to each other only through undercover meetings.
Parma is a group that works with the sexually marginalized in [...]
* Nine in ten expect barriers to becoming foster parent
* One in four expect to be treated worse by police if victim of hate crime
* Nearly one in five still bullied at work for being gay
A major YouGov poll of lesbian and gay people, commissioned by Stonewall, has found that despite recent legislative protections, [...]
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- Obama’s attack on abortion rights
- Differences between men’s and women’s health
- WHO calls for action beyond the health sector to improve the health of girls and women
- Malaysian Women’s Groups say Abolish Section 498
- Politics can be a Risky Business for Women in Bolivia
- Somali rebels close women’s organisations
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- Rape Crisis Centres Westminster Hall debate 10 November 2009 at 12:30 pm
- Grassroots Co-ordinator – Women for Refugee Women – 23rd November 2009
- Jenny Okojie is doing a 7.2km sponsored walk for CRASAC – Please sponsor her!
- 16 days of action event Greater Manchester
- Football teams needed for special tournament against domestic violence in Barnet
- Be a judge for a day in Truro as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Week
- The right of murder suspects to use their partner’s sexual infidelity as a partial defence in court is set to end
- 100 rapists are let off with a caution: The serious offences that never come to court
- Scotland Yard has instructed officers not to use the phrase ‘gang rape’ to describe such crimes because it is too ‘emotive’ a term
- Government Shelves Measures To Restrict Paedophiles On Facebook because of Human Rights concerns
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- GLDVP January-April 2010 open training programme is now available
- Prostitution Clauses Policing And Crime Bill 2009 – ECP
- Head of Communications – Women’s Resource Centre – 23rd November 2009
- Mrs Goundo’s Daughter – Free Event – Forward – 7th December 2009
- New European Campaign on FGM – Forward
- FORWARD releases an Information Services and Support Guide for Young People in the UK
- FGM is always with us – experiences perceptions and beliefs of women affected by female genital mutilation in London – Forward
The voice of justice on rape hearings in New Zealand
29 May 2008 in Australasia, Lesbian Gay, Opinion Comment, Rape and Sexual Assault
I don’t make a habit of fawning over judges but in the case of former Court of Appeal judge Ted Thomas, I could almost make an exception. (*)
Once more he has spoken out in the New Zealand Law Journal about the problems women face when they bring charges of rape and sexual abuse. The last [...]