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Security of two suspected gay persons arrested and released from Makerere and Wandegeya police posts in Uganda is a major concern since Mitchell Hall Gradens’ residents, where they were arrested, believe lynching would be the perfect solution to stop th...
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7 January 2011 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today welcomed a new law recently adopted in the Republic of Congo, calling it a “significant” step in ensuring the rights of indigenous peoples.
“This law is the first of its k...
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6 January 2011 – In an effort to help law enforcement agencies in southern Africa respond to gender-based violence effectively, the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today that it has launched a handbook and a training curriculu...
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5 January 2011 – A human rights team from the joint United Nations-African Union mission verified that one rape occurred when Government paramilitaries and police started shooting in the air at a camp market in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region last ...
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4 January 2011 – A former Nigerian health minister with wide experience in fighting HIV/AIDS has taken over the leadership of the United Nations agency charged with assisting countries with reproductive and maternal health, and population developmen...
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December 22, 2010 - CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org
WASHINGTON – President Obama today signed into law a bill repealing the discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. The president called for the policy's repeal in his State of the Un...
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Par Pascal Parvis mercredi 22 décembre 2010, à 16h31
«Votre pays a besoin de vous», vient de déclarer Barack Obama, au moment de signer cette loi tellement attendue. Les gays et lesbiennes militaires américains ne craindront plus d'être renvoyé...
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Par Maud Koetschet mercredi 22 décembre 2010, à 17h24
L’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies a réintroduit la référence à l’orientation sexuelle dans la résolution annuelle sur les exécutions arbitraires. Les associations LGBT saluent le...
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21 December 2010 – From tackling terrorism and climate change to ending poverty and conflict, young people from around the world made their voices heard on the most vital challenges facing their generation during a unique event held today with the 1...
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21 December 2010 – Faced with a marked decrease in exclusive breastfeeding in Indonesia, the United Nations has teamed up with Government and religious leaders to promote a practice that is proven to protect newborns and infants from disease, illnes...
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16 December 2010 – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is stepping up its efforts to ensure that gender, reproductive health and other population dynamics figure high on the agendas of upcoming global environmental and sustainable development...
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16 December 2010 – The United Nations is establishing a high-level commission charged with developing an accountability framework that will link resources committed to women and children’s health with the results they are intended to achieve.
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23 November 2010 – Global efforts to halt and even reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS are showing welcome results, with the number of people newly infected declining and AIDS-related deaths falling, according to the latest report from the United Nations age...
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29 September 2010 – Victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will have the opportunity to speak out before a high-level panel convened by the United Nations human rights chief beginning on Thursday in the country’s east...
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19.10.10: Le conseil de Paris a voté, mardi 19 octobre, en faveur de l'ouverture d'au moins un centre de consommation à moindre risque pour usagers de drogues. "Cette initiative devra s'entendre comme une expérimentation validée par l'Etat et construi...
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Écrit par Gérald Bouchon
Jeudi, 14 Octobre 2010 12:19: La Lesbian and Gay Pride de Lyon dénonce le risque d’expulsion imminente d’un homosexuel originaire du Sénégal, en France depuis juin 2009. Retenu au Centre de rétention administrative de S...
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Jeudi, 14 Octobre 2010: L’action globale de la Marche mondiale des femmes constitue, pour la femme congolaise, un plaidoyer en faveur de la paix dont le pays a besoin pour se développer dans divers secteurs. La présence de la première dame en est un ...
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11 October 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today encouraged everyone in the Caribbean to get involved in the quest to end violence against women – a scourge which affects one in every three women in the region during her lifetime.
“This campai...
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11 October 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling for at least $750 million to treat some 3.5 million cases of obstetric fistula by 2015 in an effort to cure the debilitating injury caused by obstruction in giving birth.
“Obstetric fistula i...
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La levée de boucliers des Oulémas et marabouts du Fouta contre la déclaration d’abandon de l’excision par soixante villages du département de Podor a provoqué hier une douche froide sur les participants au Séminaire international sur les pratiqu...
