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uk gay activist presents evidence in mugabe arrest bid
January 7, 2004: London - British gay rights activist Peter Tatchell Wednesday submitted a 52 page brief to a judge in London outlining civil rights abuses by Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe. ... |
7/1/2004 |
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debate postponed until next year
April 26, 2003: Abstention by South Africa feared - Vatican and Muslim countries lead campaign against the resolution being voted on - in the end it is put off until next year. ... |
26/4/2003 |
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why would south africa abstain?
April 25, 2003: Open letter to delegation in Geneva and the President's office.... |
25/4/2003 |
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un vote postponed
April 24, 2003: Yesterday's landmark vote on "Human Rights and Sexual Orientation" has been postponed. IGLHRC call for urgent lobbying. ... |
24/4/2003 |
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us set to abstain on un vote
April 24, 2003: Historic vote at the United Nations condemning discrimination based on sexual orientation will not be supported by the US says two major LGBT organisations. ... |
24/4/2003 |
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un vote today
April 23, 2003: First-ever UN resolution opposing sexual orientation-based human rights violations set for consideration today.... |
23/4/2003 |
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resolution is a test
April 23, 2003: Amnesty International calls for adoption of resolution on sexual orientation at UN Commission on Human Rights saying that resolution is a test of the universality of human rights.... |
23/4/2003 |
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mysterious death of somali in canada
February 25, 2003: Afdhere Jama reports on the four different versions of events and possible police involvement in transexual's death. ... |
25/2/2003 |
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mugabe in paris
February 25, 2003: Gay and human-rights activists repeatedly zapped vociferously anti-gay Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Feb. 19 and 20, calling him a murderer and demanding he be arrested for tor... |
25/2/2003 |
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amsterdam summer institute
February 2003: Information and applications for scholarship for the course to be held June/July 2003 at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.... |
7/2/2003 |
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medals brought home to south africa
November 12, 2002: Delegates returning to South Africa with gold, silver and bronze medals for their country, from the Gay Games in Sydney said that the city took the event very seriously. ... |
12/11/2002 |
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sa women athletes off to gay games VI
November 5, 2002: History was made on the evening of Monday, October 28, when six women - "young, gifted and black" - left South Africa bound for Sydney, Australia, where they will be taking part in t... |
5/11/2002 |
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united nations condemns trials of suspected homosexuals in egypt
August 19, 2002: Groundbreaking step by major UN working body. ... |
19/8/2002 |
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africa says no
May 3, 2002: UN votes down IGLA effort to regain consultative status. ... |
3/5/2002 |
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new york's gay africans move out from the shadows
new york's gay africans move out from the shadows
2000: The African Gay and Lesbian community in New York is shifting more and more from its barely visible position under the radar to a front and cen... |
1/11/2000 |
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judges urge for liberalisation
judges urge for liberalisation
Undated, Delhi, India: Judges from South Africa and Australia are in India, where gay sex is a criminal offense, to lobby for a liberalization of the country's laws on ... |
1/11/2000 |
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gay moroccan must leave norway
August 2000: A 25 year old Moroccan has shown in his application that homosexuality is punished in Morocco and that he should be allowed to stay in Norway for that reason. But his application was reje... |
2/8/2000 |
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