May 2012
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40 Faces Of Homophobia Around The World →
Azerbaijan And Iran In Row Over Who's More... →
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Gay activist convicted in Russia →
A prominent Russian gay rights activist was convicted on Friday of spreading “gay propaganda” among minors in the first such ruling in Russia’s modern history.
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Hero Mom Confronts Human Traffickers in Argentina
She has survived two murder attempts, her house was burnt down, she has received countless death threats, but nothing has stopped Susana Trimarco from looking for her missing daughter for the last 10 years.
read the full story at the BBC
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Anti-gay group in Liberia issues hit list,...
An anti-gay group in Liberia distributed fliers over the weekend with a hit list of people who support gay rights, and one member of the group threatened to “get to them one by one.”
The fliers mark the latest development in an increasingly hostile national debate about gay rights in this country on Africa’s western coast.
via washington post
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March 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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MARE CHIUSO is the new documentary by Andrea Segre and Stefano Liberti produced by ZaLab with the support of Open Society Foundations.
As a result of an agreement signed by Berlusconi and Gaddafi in 2009, all migrants intercepted at sea by the Italian navy were forcibly returned to Libya, where they have been exposed to any kind of abuses by local police. Many of them, about 2000 people,...
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"The Sketchbook from Auschwitz" →
Found hidden away in a bottle, the Auschwitz Memorial Museum has published sketches drawn by a prisoner at the Birkenau extermination camp. They provide a rare first-hand glimpse of life and death inside. The book is part of the museum’s plans to launch a catalogue of 6,000 artworks in its archives.
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New Film Sheds Light on Plight of Gays, 'Honor... →
In colloquial Turkish, the word zenne means male belly dancer. It is also the title of a new film that explores sexual identity while also highlighting a deadly case of homophobia in modern-day Turkey.
“The starting point was a dear friend of ours who was murdered in 2008 for being gay by his own father,” said Mehmet Binay, producer and co-director of “Zenne,” which...
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Smear in Russia Backfires, and Online Tributes... →
Doctored photographs have a long history in Russia as political tools, but two or more parties can play the game in the Internet age.
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Iran Rights Official Calls Homosexuality 'Disease'... →
from Radio Free Europe The secretary-general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights has been quoted as telling a visiting German lawmaker that homosexuality is a disease. “The West says that the marriage of homosexuals should be allowed under the human rights charter, however, we think it is sexual immorality and a disease,” Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency quoted...
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