TAG: violence

Operating logic

Read the article “Operating logic”, written by Mauro Ï Cabral, on medical interventions or mutilation in intersex people.

Navi Pillay’s editorial against homophobia

Click here to read a great editorial piece in which the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay denounces homophobia and calls for concerted action to better protect individuals from violence and discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

A new Jamaican Public Service Announcement calls for tolerance

Jamaica: A recently produced public service announcement focuses attention on the need to respect LGBT individuals and features prominent Jamaicans requesting tolerance of the Jamaican LGBT community. Read more and watch the video.

Leader of an organization defending gays’ rights killed in Karaganda

Kazakhstan: The leader of the Pearl, an NGO that protects LGBTand conducts work on the prevention of HIV infection, was found dead in his apartment in the center of Karaganda. Read more.

Two employees of Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) arrested

Zimbabwe: Two employees of Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) were arrested on Friday May 28, 2010 after a police raid on their offices. Police alleged to have found pornographic material. The activists complained they had been tortured. Read more.

Genital mutilation

2.7 Genital mutilation Since 2003, February 6th has been recognized as the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. Surveying the Web in 2010, it is amazing to find that the day has not had much visibility this year. It is quite significant, however, that a new law prohibiting the practice has been […]

Human Rights violations around the world

2.6 Human Rights violations Turkey: Multiple Murders of transgender people highlight inadequate state protection Jamaica: British Honorary Consul John Terry murdered in his bedroom. The content of a note reportedly found at the murder scene suggests that he was the victim of a violently homophobic crime. Malawi: Malawian Married Gay Couple Plead Not Guilty to […]

In three steps*

By Mauro ï Cabral (1) 1. Each year, during this week, I write a text that can be short or long, as well as more or less similar to or different from what I had written the year before. The occasion is always the same: February 6th is the International Day of Zero Tolerance against […]

Murder of Gay Rights Activist in Honduras

Honduras: Murder of gay rights activist shows another crisis. Walter Tróchez spent a lot time at Honduras police stations and morgues: he was the HIV-positive gay activist who got the call every time a transgender sex worker was murdered on the streets of Honduras.