Tambe Tiku Human Rights Advocate:
By failing outright to condemn this cankerworm, the Head of State arrogated to himself one more function 'Lawyer for Homosexuals'.
official name: Department of Reunion capital: Saint-Denis head of state: President Jacques CHIRAC of France state: Overseas department of France population: 732,570 (July 2001 est.) languages: French (official), Creole widely used religion: Roman Catholic 86%, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist (1995) currency: French franc (FRF); euro (EUR) media: NA
legal wise
status of homosexuality: legal age of consent: 15 laws covering homosexual activity: French law apllies - no sodomy laws. background information and government attitudes: NA
communication
mainline telephones: 236,500 (1997) cellular telephones: 85,000 (1999) internet country code: .re internet service providers: 1 (2000) internet users: 10,000 (2000)
by Mask Admin 6/1/2005
January 6, 2005: Reunion is a French territory and homosexuality is legal, but at least one foreign resident of the island left after tiring of masking his sexual orientation.
provision of arvs in the southern africa region November 29, 2004: As we all know, some countries here in Africa are trying hard to fight HIV/Aids. But African governments are focusing on heterosexual safer sex education. There is little or nothing being done regarding lesbian and gay safer sex education. It is a taboo for most countries in Africa to talk about sex, let alone homosexuality. [more]
hiv-positive africans and gays face uk discrimination January 12, 2005: Britain's All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS says in a new report launched on Tuesday that infected Africans and gay men in the UK often face "widespread discrimination". [more]
Tambe Tiku Human Rights Advocate:
