U.N. questions Russia's treatment of gays

A report from the United Nations Human Rights Committee shows that those who work in discord with Russian authorities, including gay and lesbian activists, are often driven underground or disbanded under threat of government violence.
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Uganda vows to ignore world as it considers anti-gay law

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Officials in Uganda fired back against human rights groups and foreign diplomats who have blasted a draconian law being considered by the country’s legislative body.
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ANTI-GAY BILL PUT TO UGANDAN PARLIAMENT

An anti-homosexuality draft bill is being put to the Ugandan parliament. This proposed law targets not only LGBT people but also human rights and AIDS prevention activists.
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Taser International to police: don't fire at suspect's chest, may cause 'adverse cardiac event'

Oh really, now -- how long have I been blogging about this "electrical shock device" and the deaths, maimings and abuse heaped upon the guilty and the innocent, the elderly, the mentally disabled, the bedridden and wheelchair bound, as well as humans minding their own business on bicycles and at a child's baptism party? Never mind the story of a Taser being used to sodomize a suspect.
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Uganda's gay death penalty bill slammed

Human rights groups have blasted Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which includes a section that would introduce the death penalty for the offence of "aggravated homosexuality.
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Human rights groups oppose Uganda's proposed death penalty for homosexuality

Seventeen human rights groups have called for proposed new laws on homosexuality in Uganda to be scrapped immediately.
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Human rights groups blast Ugandan gay death penalty bill

BBC News Human rights groups blast Ugandan gay death penalty billMonsters and Critics.com... the death penalty for anyone who engages in same-sex relations with children under 18 and disabled people or who is HIV-positive while having gay sex.
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IOC gives themselves gold medal for Beijing Olympics

I mean sure. What's not to love about a few bashed heads, global protests, violent police actions and mass arrests? Between the human rights problems with their last location, previous problems with bribery and then the regular dopings (which go well beyond Beijing, obviously) the IOC remains as clueless as ever.
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Thousands Attend March Against Violence

Thousands of people have staged a torchlit march through  the historic  down town streets of Italian capital,  Rome,  to protest at a spate of violence against gay men in the city and all across Italy, in recent times.
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Soviets, I mean Russians, try to blackmail US diplomat with faked sex tape

This really is troubling. It's very Soviet. (Then again, the Republican party has gotten very Soviet of late as well.
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Indonesia: Stonings For Adultery, Public Lashings And Prison For Homosexuals

Weeks before they will be ousted for a more moderate government, lawmakers in the Indonesian province of Aceh have unanimously approved a law dictating the stoning to death of adulterers and the public lashings and imprisonment of gays.
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Amnesty report warns of violence against gays and women in Serbia

The Serbian government is failing to protect human rights groups fighting for LGBT and women's rights, an Amnesty International report has claimed.
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Buju Banton Columbus OH show cancelled by promoter

The Lifestyle Communities Pavilion in Columbus, OH has canceled the Oct. 3 show featuring reggae singer Buju Banton after several LGBT rights groups, including Equality Ohio and Stonewall Democrats of Central Ohio began an e-mail and Facebook campaign urging people to voice their disapproval.
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US to crack down on child sex-tourism

It's about time. A few years ago this problem became high profile in the UK after the arrest of British singer Gary Glitter was arrested and sent to prison in Vietnam for this offense.
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Gay Immigrants Face Abuse in Detention

Lawyers and human rights groups say that gay, transgender and HIV positive immigrants being held in detention facilities are vulnerable to abusive treatment, including verbal and physical assaults, reports Rumbo.
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Report details deplorable treatment of LGBT people in Burundi

“It was never easy to be gay or lesbian in Burundi,” reports Zimbabwe Star. “But now it’s illegal.
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Two Gay Iraqis Accuse U.S. Military Of Joining In Executions

The Washington Blade is reporting that two gay Iraqis claim to have photos of U.S. soldiers preparing to execute gay men in Iraq.
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Wednesday This & That: Open Thread

Pleeeeease feel free to chat, blogwhore, and link-share in the comment thread...

Here's what Bookworm Bob & I have been looking at recently:

• (en)gender's Alcohol Poisoning:

Author and university professor Helen Boyd reviews the ABC television special on Chloe Prince, using the Trans Documentary Drinking Game as a measure.
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India court reviews gay sex order BBC News

India's Supreme Court has refused to put on hold a landmark court judgement decriminalising gay sex in the country.
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Lithuania’s parliament reinstates anti-gay law

The parliament in the Baltic republic of Lithuania, called the “Siemas”, today voted to overturn the veto of a notoriously anti-gay law, which was originally passed by the chamber on June 15.
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