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Cameroon: Human Rights Abuses in ‘Homosexuality’ Prosecutions

Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world, four human rights organizations said in a report released today. They found that at least 28 people have been prosecuted for same-sex conduct in Cameroon since 2010. Most cases are marked by grave human rights violations, including torture, forced confessions, denial of access to legal counsel, and discriminatory treatment by law enforcement and judicial officials.

Published
12 hours ago
From
Human Rights Watch LGBT
Human rights
AIDS Accountability International: South Africa to investigate Zimbabwe’s ‘politically motivated rape’

South Africa is to investigate crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe involving widespread rape perpetrated in the run-up to Zimbabwe’s 2008 presidential elections.

Published
02 March 2013
From
AIDS Free World
Human rights
Ghana: Stop Mandatory HIV Test

The Ghana AIDS Commission has advised pastors who ask their members to undergo a mandatory HIV test before they bless their marriages to stop the practice.

Published
01 March 2013
From
AllAfrica.com
Human rights
Uganda: Civil Society Opposed to Mandatory HIV Testing

Civil Society organizations (CSOs) have called for a repeal of mandatory HIV testing clause as envisaged in the HIV/AIDS and Control Bill, 2010, saying such a policy would drive the scourge "underground" instead of scaling down the recent increase in infections. The CSOs also called for repeal of clauses that mandate disclosure of HIV status to third parties, allow medical personnel to disclose one's HIV status to one's sex partner, and the criminalization of intentional and attempted transmission of HIV/AIDS.

Published
01 March 2013
From
Allafrica.com
HIV and criminal law
No trial after all! Case against Norwegian prosecuted for HIV exposure via oral sex thrown out

The case against Louis Gay, the Norwegian HIV positive man prosecuted for exposing his ex-boyfriend to HIV via oral sex, was finally dismissed today, a year after he was indicted. DNA testing had shown that Louis was not the source of his partner's infection.

Published
14 February 2013
From
Blogspot
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Russia's ban on 'homosexual propaganda' - traditionalism at its worst

The ban on "homosexual propaganda among minors" has yet to become law in Russia—only its first draft has passed the lower chamber of the Russian parliament—but it has already become the most discussed subject in the Russian press and has claimed its first victims.

Published
08 February 2013
From
The New Republic
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Uganda: Men Urged to Engage in HIV Fight

Men in Uganda have been asked to engage in the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) initiatives in a bid to reduce the accelerating rates of HIV/AIDS infections in the country.

Published
29 January 2013
From
New Vision
Human rights
We Are Here: LGBTI in Uganda

"American-born gay photographer D. David Robinson collected portraits and first-person accounts from lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex Ugandans, then turned to The Advocate to offer these brave activists a forum to elevate their stories in their own words."

Published
02 January 2013
From
The Advocate
Sex workers
Vietnam’s move away from detaining sex workers

Sex workers in Vietnam are struggling to figure out their next steps after the government’s decision earlier this year to release them from compulsory detention centres that have been widely condemned for alleged human rights abuses.

Published
21 December 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Botswana: Public health bill shocking and regressive

The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA), is shocked by the introduction of a Public Health Bill which our Parliament is currently debating. This Bill has some provisions that have no place in a democratic and modern day Botswana. It has provisions that are counter-productive, discriminatory, unconstitutional and barbaric.

Published
10 December 2012
From
International HIV/AIDS Alliance / Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS
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