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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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14 men sent to jail
April 22, 2003: An Egyptian court Thursday sentenced 14 men to jail for one to three years on charges of "practicing debauchery," a euphemism for homosexual activities, the Associated Press reported.... |
22/4/2003 |
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remember may 10
April 22, 2003: A Global Day of Action and Solidarity in protest at the continued detention, persecution and torture of Egyptian men on the grounds of sexual orientation will be held May 10, 2003. ... |
22/4/2003 |
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workers want to exclude gays from family
April 2, 2003: The Nation, Nairobi, reports that the constitutional review process is back on track. ... |
2/4/2003 |
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tribute to joyce kedibone machipa malope
March 29, 2003: Musa Ngubane reports on a tribute with a difference - the person being paid tribute was there to enjoy it. Joyce Malope is a mother, a counsellor, a lesbian and she is HIV positive. He... |
29/3/2003 |
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children born to same-sex partners legitimate
March 29, 2003:The Constitutional Court ruled yesterday that twins born to a lesbian couple by means of artificial insemination were legitimate, a term traditionally used for children born in wedlock.... |
29/3/2003 |
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wissam abyad case
March 21, 2003: The action against the case of Wissam Abyad, who was entrapped by police in Egypt using the Internet is gaining momentum. ... |
21/3/2003 |
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kenya bars ship carrying us gays
March 20, 2003: East Africa Standard reported that, according to police, a ship carrying Caucasian homosexuals will not be allowed to dock at the port of Mombasa. ... |
20/3/2003 |
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amnesty international expresses concern at guilty verdict in egypt
March 19, 2003: (New York) –- Amnesty International USA today expressed grave concern about the "guilty" verdict for 21 of 50 defendants in their retrial for "habitual debauchery," ... |
19/3/2003 |
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human rights groups protest against sentences
March 18, 2003: For the first time, three Egyptian human rights organisations expressed astonishment and outrage over the conviction of 21 gays.... |
18/3/2003 |
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imam calls for fight against homosexuality
March 17, 2003: 'Aids can be spread through various ways: adultery, homosexuality and lesbianism', imam Abdoulie Fatty said in his sermon, the Banjul based Daily Observer reports.... |
17/3/2003 |
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lesbian can wear what she wants
March 17, 2003: A Bloemfontein lesbian girl who refused to to to school because she was forced to wear a dress will be allowed to go back to school wearing a boy's uniform.... |
17/3/2003 |
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3 years with hard labour
March 15, 2003: 21 gay egyptians were sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour for 'practising sexual immorality'.... |
15/3/2003 |
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protest targets gay tourists
March 10, 2003: A noisy protest is scheduled to greet gay American tourists as they arrive in the
Tanzanian capital this week, 365Gay.com reports ... |
10/3/2003 |
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terror of the love sick lesbian
March 6 , 2003: A woman teacher who was stabbed five times by a former female student at Landulwazi high school in Thokoza is battling to deal with the terrifying experience. She is still having thera... |
6/3/2003 |
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civil disobedience
March 2003: The South African Treatment Action Campaign needs your disobedient support in its struggle against HIV and Aids.... |
2/3/2003 |
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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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sodomist jailed for 15 years
February 25, 2003: The Ghanaian Chronicle reports that a 21-year old labourer, Kwamena Edwo, of Cape Coast, charged with having 'unnatural knowledge' of a 17-year old boy, was last Monday sentenced to... |
25/2/2003 |
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more gay arrests in egypt
February 22, 2003: Only days after an international human rights organisation condemned the Egyptian government for continuing to entrap gay men and sentence them to lengthy prison terms police have a... |
22/2/2003 |
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end internet entrapment, homosexual prosecutions
February 21, 2003: A February 17, 2003 appeals court ruling in Egypt may signal an increasingly harsh campaign of entrapment, arrest and conviction of men solely on the basis of alleged consensual hom... |
21/2/2003 |
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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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'red is the colour'
February 6, 2003: Several small groups of gay men in Egypt have decided to celebrate 11 May as Gay Pride Day and come out 'in red.'... |
6/2/2003 |
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lesbian and bisexual health issues: breaking the silence
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3/2/2003 |
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45 girls expelled
February 3, 2003: The hasty expulsion of 45 girls from Langham school simply because it was suspected they might be lesbian was illegal.... |
3/2/2003 |
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lesbian love in djibouti
February 2003: When I arrived in Djibouti, I was fascinated, it was the first time I had travelled in Africa.... |
1/2/2003 |
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cruising the nile
February 2003: Mubarak Dahir visits Cairo to find little changed - fear abounds. ... |
1/2/2003 |
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'lesbian' stabs three teachers
January 29, 2003: An alleged lesbian, whose love proposals to her former business economics teacher had been constantly rejected, reportedly stabbed three teachers at Landulwazi High School in Thokoza... |
29/1/2003 |
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i am what i am - a gay black woman
By Muholi Zanele... |
27/1/2003 |
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cross-fertilization court case
January 27, 2003: Two lesbian women from Durban will have their case taken to the Constitutional Court, because both are seeking to be legally recognised as the biological parents of their twins.... |
27/1/2003 |
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Zuma referring to complainant's sexual orientation and dress code
