by Mask Admin 3/5/2007
MAURITIUS - May 3, 2007: The Sexual Offences Bill recently tabled at the Mauritian Parliament brought much heated debate from both sides of the house, as well as protests from religious leaders and professionals. The bill could also decriminalise consensual anal sex. Amid the outcry, the speaker has tasked a Select Committee to look into the bill in detail.

by Mask Admin 25/1/2007
ALL AFRICA - January 25, 2007: The LGBTI activists presented a workshop on Sexuality and Social Justice which included Fikile Vilakazi is the director of the Coalition of Africa Lesbians (CAL), Wendy Landau of Behind the Mask, Bridge from the UK and Manohar from Sangama in Bangalore in India. The focus of the workshop was sexual rights and social justice.

by Mask Admin 25/1/2007
January 25, 2007: Midival Punditz played out the WSF – everyone cheered and the MC announced that four women would be presenting the resolutions from the WSF. Kasha, an LGBTI activist from Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), went up to the stage and asked to make a statement. She was asked for a copy of what she would be speaking about and gave them her piece.

by Mask Admin 13/12/2006
HUMAN RIGHTS – December 13, 2006: Deep in the Sahara, one of the world's most extraordinary tribal exhibitions takes place every year when young Wadabi men adorn themselves with beads and face paint to woo wives.

by Mask Admin 11/10/2006
HUMAN RIGHTS - October 11, 2006: In a groundbreaking legal opinion, a UN agency today declared that the detention of 11 men in Cameroon on the basis of their presumed sexual orientation constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of liberty contrary to their human rights. The UN further called on the Yaoundé government to adopt necessary measures to remedy the situation, including the possible repeal of the offending law.