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Double Sentence: AIDS in a Senegalese Prison
By Amanda Fortier*
DAKAR - Amadou* takes in a long, deep breath, clears his throat and steps to the front of the room. He turns to look out at a familiar group of faces sitting on long wooden benches here at the Camp Penal maximum-security prison in Dakar. This is the last in a group of 150 inmates Amadou has been speaking with today. He’s tired, but remains focused.
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ARGENTINA
Things Slowly Getting Better for Transgender People
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Transvestites and transsexuals in Argentina, who were among the most marginalised minority populations, have seen respect for their rights grow in recent years, especially since same-sex marriage became legal in this country a year and a half ago.
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U.N.'s First Official Report on Gays Notes Widespread Bias
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - In its first-ever official report on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, the United Nations confirms there is widespread discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in "all regions" of the world.
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U.S.
Federal Court Grants Legal Victory to Transgender People
By Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA, Georgia - When Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman formerly known as Mr. Glenn Morrison, told her supervisors at the Georgia state legislature where she served as a legislative editor that she would start coming to work dressed as a woman, she was fired.
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GUATEMALA
Discrimination Undermines AIDS Prevention
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - "At the clinic we were attended to by a woman who criticised us and only talked to us about religious questions," says Carlos Valdez of Proyecto Unidos, an NGO in Guatemala that fights for access to HIV/AIDS prevention services by homosexuals and sex workers.
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Nigerian Bill Criminalises More Than Just Gay People
By Elizabeth Whitman
UNITED NATIONS - "The prospect of arriving home... being arrested at the airport - that's kind of scary," said Osazeme O., a dual citizen of Nigeria and the UK, in a wry understatement.
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South-South Ties Reshape Aid Paradigm
Analysis by Miriam Gathigah
BUSAN, South Korea - When the G-8 countries, comprising the world’s largest industrialised nations, decided that improving Internet access to developing countries should be a priority, scores of leaders from developing world opposed the move.
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The Aid From Women No One Counts
By Miriam Gathigah
BUSAN, South Korea - Gender responsive budgeting becomes important when seen in the background of unpaid but important care work done by women, say delegates to an international meet on aid effectiveness in this South Korean city.
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CARRIBEAN
Fresh Challenges Accompany Progress in AIDS Fight
By Peter Richards
NASSAU, Bahamas - Cracey Fernandes, the president of the Guyana Sex Work Coalition, does not hide the fact that he is homosexual.
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CUBA
Same-Sex Couples Want to Be Counted
By Dalia Acosta
HAVANA - Communist Party militant, gay rights activist, journalist and blogger Francisco Rodríguez has triggered an online debate in Cuba by calling for sexual diversity to be identified in the next census, due in September 2012.
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U.S.-UGANDA
Award Honours Courageous Gay Rights Activist
By Amanda Wilson
WASHINGTON - Frank Mugisha was just a young teenager in Uganda when he came out as gay. He faced bullying and threats, but he says the stories of lesbian, gay, and transgender friends he later met were much worse - some were kicked out of their homes by their families, subjected to sexual violence to "make them straight", or arrested.
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U.S. Concerned Over Uganda's "Deteriorating" Human Rights
By Amanda Wilson
WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department Wednesday released a statement criticising what it said was a "deteriorating" human rights situation in Uganda and the government's increasingly heavy- handed tactics to repress political opposition and silence dissent.
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INDIA
Campuses Lead Gay Rights Struggle
By Ranjita Biswas
KOLKATA, India - It was with some trepidation that Nivvedan, a student at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Bombay, helped launch ‘Saathi’ (Companion), catering to the needs of people with different sexual orientations on campus.
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Although progress towards respect for sexual diversity has been made in a number of countries and in international law, in many parts of the world, lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people face serious threats to their life and liberty.

Even in countries where legislation recognising the rights of sexual minorities has been passed, discrimination and social stigma are widespread.