President Obama issues a proclamation that could prohibit those engaging in a violation of LGBT human rights abroad from entering the United States.
From UK Guardian: A group of Ugandans identified as homosexual in a newspaper article headlined “Hang Them” have won damages and a court injunction ordering the paper not to repeat the exercise, human rights groups said today. A high court judge ruled that the story in the Rolling Stone newspaper, which printed addresses and photographs of [...]
From The American Spectator: Revoking “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has gotten all the attention of late. But the Obama Administration is involved in another related initiative that is potentially no less significant. Religious liberals in the United States have accused U.S. evangelicals of “exporting the culture wars” to Africa by preaching conservative cultural norms. But [...]
“People cannot conceive how badly wounded these people are. Of the 3,000 I’ve worked with, only one is employed. Military combat trauma is bad enough, but with MST it’s not the enemy, it’s our guys who are doing it. You’re fighting your friends, your peers, people you’ve been told have your back. That betrayal, then [...]
By Paul Canning ‘Peace [Selam] seeker’ (pseudonym), an Ethiopian gay asylum seeker, has written to us to announce his new website, set up for Ethiopian LGBT around the world. Homosexuality is illegal in Ethiopia and the country is very homophobic. As elsewhere in Africa, he says, “homosexuality is perceived as being an evil disease or [...]
Then: Slaves on plantation in New Jersey Now: Girl trafficked from West Africa and enslaved in New Jersey From CNN: They arrived in the United States from West Africa, young girls held against their will and forced to work for hours on end. But this time, it didn’t happen hundreds of years ago. Nicole’s journey [...]
From New America Media: RIO DE JANEIRO—Celebration of Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day began early, just after dawn. Afro-Brazilian community and religious leaders climbed the pyramid at the base of the statue of Zumbi dos Palmares, the country’s most important black hero, and ceremoniously began to wash the bust. Brazil is South America’s largest country and [...]
