criminalization of sex
Pregnant Women Need Health Care, Not Jail Time
We must put an end to policies that undermine basic constitutional principles in order to lock up the pregnant women and mothers who need health care most.
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BREAKING: Rwandan Parliament to Vote This Week on Criminalization of Homosexuality
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
December 15, 2009 - 8:00pm (Print)
Yes, I mean Rwanda, and yes, indeed yet another country in sub-Saharan Africa--one which has made such vast progress from the genocide of a decade ago--appears ready to vote to criminalize the existence of a whole class of people.
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At "Breakthrough" Meeting, Holy See "Condemns Criminalization of Homosexual Conduct"
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
December 12, 2009 - 10:30am (Print)
At a "breakthrough meeting," the Holy See condemned "unjust discrimination against homosexual persons," and advocates detailed the spread throughout Africa of violence and hatred against gay, lesbian and transgender persons.
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Human Rights: When Officials Get Serious About HIV Prevention, This is Where They’ll Start
by Catherine Hanssens, Center for HIV Law and Policy
August 31, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
Stigma, discrimination, poverty, homophobia, racism, sexism, all fuel the spread of HIV and hurt those living with it. These issues are routinely cited as critical to ending the epidemic but rarely addressed in policies and prevention strategies.
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Sexual Rights and Wrongs: Policing the Gendered Order
by Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check, Asia
August 10, 2009 - 6:00am (Print)
The absence of penal laws and widespread violence against homosexuals and transgender persons does not make the Philippines totally “gay friendly” or even “pro-trans.”
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Reform of Iowa's HIV Transmission Law Meets Resistance
by Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow
July 29, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
The case of an Iowa man sentenced to the maximum allowed by state law for failing to disclose to a one-time intimate partner that he was HIV-positive has been cited as evidence of the need to reevaluate state criminal transmission laws.
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German Pop Star Publicly Arrested for HIV Tranmission
by Fiona Pettitt, International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
May 27, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
Criminalization of HIV transmission and exposure places blame on one sexual partner rather than encouraging equal responsibility in safe sex.
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