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Turkey urged to end discriminatory clampdown on gay rights groups

Posted on 10/02/2010

Amnesty International called on the Turkish authorities to end its harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizations after a new attempt to close down an LGBT group through the courts began on Tuesday. The case against the Black Pink Triangle association, which has worked ...

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Turkey urged to end discriminatory clampdown on gay rights groups

Posted by Amnesty International on 10/02/2010

Wednesday, 10 February, 2010 Amnesty International is concerned that a new attempt to close down the LGBT group Black Pink Triangle through the courts, follows cases against similar organizations in rec ...

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Brazil: Kiss-in for homosexual and abortion rights

Posted by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia on 04/02/2010

São Paulo will stop on Sunday for an evening of mass kissing in protest against resistance to the Brazilian government's third edition of the National Program for Human Rights

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India: Bridging the information gap on sexuality

Posted by John Liebhardt on 02/02/2010

YP Foundation in India is working online and offline to help inform young people about often hush-hush topics like gender, sexuality, reproductive rights and HIV/AIDS.

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Puerto Rico: Bloggers discuss Roe v. Wade

Posted by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle on 31/01/2010

The 37th anniversary of the landmark United States Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade (January 22, 1973) spurred bloggers in Puerto Rico to express their opinions about a ruling that still sparks controversy. The decision made abortion legal in the United States, and it was extended to Puerto Rico ...

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