Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
April 02, 2024, 10:17:49 am

Login with username, password and session length


Members
  • Total Members: 37617
  • Latest: NChio
Stats
  • Total Posts: 772997
  • Total Topics: 66312
  • Online Today: 225
  • Online Ever: 5484
  • (June 18, 2021, 11:15:29 pm)
Users Online
Users: 0
Guests: 162
Total: 162

Welcome


Welcome to the POZ Community Forums, a round-the-clock discussion area for people with HIV/AIDS, their friends/family/caregivers, and others concerned about HIV/AIDS.  Click on the links below to browse our various forums; scroll down for a glance at the most recent posts; or join in the conversation yourself by registering on the left side of this page.

Privacy Warning:  Please realize that these forums are open to all, and are fully searchable via Google and other search engines. If you are HIV positive and disclose this in our forums, then it is almost the same thing as telling the whole world (or at least the World Wide Web). If this concerns you, then do not use a username or avatar that are self-identifying in any way. We do not allow the deletion of anything you post in these forums, so think before you post.

  • The information shared in these forums, by moderators and members, is designed to complement, not replace, the relationship between an individual and his/her own physician.

  • All members of these forums are, by default, not considered to be licensed medical providers. If otherwise, users must clearly define themselves as such.

  • Forums members must behave at all times with respect and honesty. Posting guidelines, including time-out and banning policies, have been established by the moderators of these forums. Click here for “Do I Have HIV?” posting guidelines. Click here for posting guidelines pertaining to all other POZ community forums.

  • We ask all forums members to provide references for health/medical/scientific information they provide, when it is not a personal experience being discussed. Please provide hyperlinks with full URLs or full citations of published works not available via the Internet. Additionally, all forums members must post information which are true and correct to their knowledge.

  • Product advertisement—including links; banners; editorial content; and clinical trial, study or survey participation—is strictly prohibited by forums members unless permission has been secured from POZ.

To change forums navigation language settings, click here (members only), Register now

Para cambiar sus preferencias de los foros en español, haz clic aquí (sólo miembros), Regístrate ahora

Finished Reading This? You can collapse this or any other box on this page by clicking the symbol in each box.

Author Topic: UK Pink News: Johannesburg Rally  (Read 2016 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline bear60

  • Member
  • Posts: 4,105
UK Pink News: Johannesburg Rally
« on: May 07, 2007, 04:08:09 pm »
I know there are a few members here from Africa.  Maybe rhis will be of interest.

 4th May 2007 15:07
PinkNews.co.uk writer

The first regional conference of the International Lesbian and Gay Association in Africa will take place in Johannesburg this weekend.

This gathering of a large number of activists dealing with the advancement of LGBT issues on the continent hopes to make further progress.

60 human rights and LGBTI activists from all corners of the African continent will gather to discuss ways to challenge state homophobia, lesbophobia and transphobia in Africa.

85 member states of the United Nations still criminalise consensual same-sex acts among adults, institutionally promoting a culture of hatred. 38 are African countries.

A report on state homophobia in Africa will be launched during the conference. The impressive collection of laws presented in this report is an attempt to show the extent of state homophobia in Africa.

"Although many of the countries listed in the report do not systematically implement those laws, their mere existence reinforces a culture where a significant portion of the citizens need to hide from the rest of the population out of fear," said an ILGA spokesman.

"A culture where hatred and violence are somehow justified by the State and force people into invisibility or into denying who they truly are.

"Whether imported by colonial empires or the result of legislations culturally shaped by religious beliefs, if not deriving directly from a conservative interpretation of religious texts, homophobic laws are the fruit of a certain time and context in history."

ILGA is a world-wide network of national and local groups dedicated to achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people.

Founded in 1978, it now has more than 560 member organisations. Every continent and around 90 countries are represented.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-4309.html



Poz Bear Type in Philadelphia

 


Terms of Membership for these forums
 

© 2024 Smart + Strong. All Rights Reserved.   terms of use and your privacy
Smart + Strong® is a registered trademark of CDM Publishing, LLC.