All Posts Tagged With: "human rights"

Houghton called to resign over transsexual comments

By ADRIAN DARBYSHIRE OUT of common decency, resign! That’s the call from an Isle of Man transsexual after MHK John Houghton sparked outcry in the House of Keys this week with comments condemned by his colleagues as ‘bigoted’ and ‘abhorrent’. His protests that new laws to protect the rights of transsexual people would ‘defy common [...]

12Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Isle of Man politician compared to Nazis over trans comments

By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk A member of the Isle of Man’s parliament has been accused of using language more akin to the Nazis during a debate about the rights of transexuals. John Houghton, a House of Keys member for Douglas North, spoke out against a gender recognition bill that will bring Isle of Man legislation [...]

11Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender people plead for law change

By KAREN LOVETT CONCORD – For seven years, Robert Blanchette worked as a computer programmer at St. Anselm College. He was a reliable employee, often working weekends and holidays to keep up. He received commendations for his professionalism. Then suddenly, Blanchette found himself out of work. The main reason, it became clear, was because Blanchette [...]

7Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

First transgender choir strikes gay rights chord in Nepal

Kathmandu, Feb 3 (IANS) Bhakti Shah faces an uphill struggle to get her job back a year after Nepal’s army sacked the physical training instructor for being involved in a lesbian relationship with a trainee.”I have filed a case in the Supreme Court,” says the 24-year-old, who looks like a teenaged boy with her close-cropped [...]

3Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Activist urges end to sex change rules

SURASAK GLAHAN Bangkok Post A transgender advocacy group is calling on the Public Health Ministry to revoke the draft Medical Council of Thailand regulation on sex change surgery, saying it violates human rights. “This draft regulation deprives transgender people of their basic rights,” Yollada Suanyot, chairperson of the Transgender Women of Thailand group, said yesterday. [...]

1Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Activist urges end to sex change rules

By: SURASAK GLAHAN A transgender advocacy group is calling on the Public Health Ministry to revoke the draft Medical Council of Thailand regulation on sex change surgery, saying it violates human rights. “This draft regulation deprives transgender people of their basic rights,” Yollada Suanyot, chairperson of the Transgender Women of Thailand group, said yesterday. “We [...]

30Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Human Rights Violations on Kenya’s Transgender Community

Audrey Mbugua is a member of the “Transgender Education and Advocacy”, an organization recently formed in Kenya to address social injustices committed on the Kenya’s transgender community. The Kenyan transgender community face intolerance and hostility much of which is based on ignorance of transgenderism some basics concepts such as the difference between religious fundamentalism, sexism, [...]

27Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Honduran Transgender Community Terrified After Third Murder

By On Top Magazine Staff The violent murder of a prominent transgender rights activist in Honduras has left the transgender community stunned and terrified. Cynthia Nicole, a prominent transgender rights activist, was fatally wounded by three shots in the chest and one in the head in a violent drive-by shooting in the district of Barrio [...]

19Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Iranians Ponder Their Future With an Obama Admin

by Ann Wright, t r u t h o u t | Perspective Traveling to Iran as a Citizen Diplomat for Peace Just a month ago, while Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US President George Bush met for the last time as heads of state in late November 2008 in Washington and continued their [...]

30Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay rights groups protest Vatican decision

Sam Hodges A coalition of gay rights groups has put out the statement below, protesting the Vatican’s opposition to an international effort to decriminalize homosexuality. There’s to be a demonstration by gay rights advocates, on this same issue, tonight at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in downtown Dallas. Faith Leaders from LGBT [...]

11Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

‘Call in gay’ in Utah? You could be fired

Protest today » Activists hope to change that as anti-Prop 8 backlash continues. By Rosemary Winters The Salt Lake Tribune Utah lesbians and gays who join a national movement and skip work today by “calling in gay” are risking their jobs. Besides missing a shift in a slumping economy during the holiday season, employees can [...]

10Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Australia mulls official ‘intersex’ gender

CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 6 (UPI) — The Australian government’s Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission is pushing for “intersex” to become an officially recognized gender.The commission distributed a paper entitled “Sex Files — The legal recognition of sex: Proposed reform” among transgender and transsexual advocates that supports adding “intersex” to the recognized genders of male [...]

8Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Australia rights body wants “intersex” gender: report

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s official human rights watchdog wants a third gender called “intersex” to be created for use on official documents like passports and driving licenses, a newspaper report said on Saturday. The new gender would be another legally recognized option alongside male and female, The Daily Telegraph reported. The proposal from the Human [...]

5Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Most Americans favor gay adoptions, survey says

By Gregory Lewis |South Florida Sun-Sentinel Floridians seem out of step with most Americans, three-quarters of whom favor marriage or civil unions for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, according to a new national survey by Harris Interactive. The Pulse of Equality survey, commissioned by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and released [...]

4Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

India’s hijras spread safe sex message in life or death AIDS fight

Savitha was born a boy but became a girl at the age of 16. Nine years on, she sells cheap sex to lorry drivers at a dusty truck stop outside the southern Indian city of Bangalore.As one of the hijra community – the cross-dressers, pre- and post-operative transsexuals known here as eunuchs – she is [...]

27Nov2008 | | 1 comment | Continued

Human Rights Commissioner talks about transgender death

By: Andy Mattison SYRACUSE, N.Y. — It’s been 10 days since Moses “Teish” Cannon was shot to death, apparently targeted for being transgender. On Monday, Cannon’s death brought the state’s human rights commissioner to Syracuse to meet with local transgender groups and speak out against what they consider a hate crime. “We agreed to work [...]

25Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Nepal Jumps Ahead on Gay and Transgender Rights

by Bhumika Ghimire After California voters passed the proposition to ban gay marriage in the state, gay and transgender rights is back on the headlines in America. While the debate rages on there, Nepal – a faraway country, much smaller and often ignored on the world stage is now being looked upon as an example [...]

25Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

WA gender decision to become test case

Debbie Guest Article from: The Australian IN a major test case, two “former women” are taking on the West Australian Government in a bid to officially be recognised as men. The pair will take their appeal to court in February after the Gender Reassignment Board of WA refused to acknowledge their sex change because they [...]

25Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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