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NH, Just VCtst of I^ancastcr, pii. 363-4000 P ortland , CANADA Six hundred men who were allegedly sexu ally and physically abused while attending Ro man Catholic reform schools are eligible for a share of an $18 million compensation fund. The Christian Brothers lay order, the archdioceses of Toronto and Ottawa, and the Canadian govern ment have each agreed to contribute to the fund. The fund was increased from $10 million after more than 300 additional survivors came for ward. COLOMBIA A report by the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights group, confirms that police in Colombia continue to systematically persecute and murder gays. Homeless people, prostitutes, transvestites and gay men are regu larly chased and beaten by police, who also extort money from them, according to the report. Co lombian gays have reported being terrorized by police and paramilitary death squads for years. WOLA urged the United States government to hold Colombia accountable for such human rights violations by withholding military aid. Colombia is reported to receive more U.S. military aid than any other country in the Western Hemisphere. lower levels. “This is one of the most wonderful things that could have happened to the [gay] community,” said activist Danny Lachman. ‘That homosexuals were drafted was always important to me. It gave a feeling that we were, after all, part of society.” NORWAY Immigration officials have denied a request for asylum from a Cuban gay man who has been jailed three times under his country’s sodomy laws. Norwegian officials say they turned down R aul B arreras, 25, because they couldn ’ t get much information on gays in Cuba from Amnesty Inter national. Barreras has appealed to the Department of Justice. Norway generally doesn’t deport refu gees who risk imprisonment in their native coun tries. POLAND Police have shut down Poland’s last gay club. The club started as a government-sponsored youth center, but became a gay club last year. The city responded by severing its ties to the club and canceling the preferential rent rate. Then neigh bors began complaining that the club was too loud, and the city of Poznan ordered the club to close at 10 pm. Club operators refused to follow the order, and police arrived to enforce it. Patrons report being brutally thrown out. The police deny their claims, saying patrons called them names and threw drinks at them. CYPRUS The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Cyprus’s anti-sodomy law violates the right to privacy guaranteed in the European Con vention on Human Rights. Alex Modinos, presi dent of Cyprus’s Homosexual Liberation Move ment, filed the complaint in 1989. The court heard RUSSIA the case in October 1992 and ruled in April. The President Boris Yeltsin signed legislation le only justice on the ECHR to vote in support of the galizing consensual sex between men. Russian anti-gay law was from Cyprus. Article 121 now outlaws only rape and statutory rape. Some activists had pushed to create a com IRELAND pletely new article to punish all sexual acts in Ireland recently moved to legalize sex acts volving force, but the government instead opted between men, with the age of consent the same as to rework the existing law. Men imprisoned for for heterosexual acts. The repeal of the sodomy gay sex should be released under the revised law. law has passed both Houses of Parliament and No official has been put in charge of releasing awaits President Mary Robinson’s signature, ac them. The government will not provide any sort of cording to the Consulate General of Ireland in San compensation or rehabilitation for those released. Francisco. The law dates back to 1861, before “This is great news for gays and lesbians in Ireland gained independence from Great Britain. Russia,” said Vladislav Ortanov, editor of RISK, The European Courtof Human Rights ruled against Moscow’s gay paper. “Just last month, we were the law in 1988. Ireland also recently legalized convinced that this law would not be changed for condom -vending machines, although a recent Irish at least another year.” Times article claims business owners are slow to install them. Students at both Trinity College and SWITZERLAND University College of Dublin installed illegal The World Health Organization passed abso condom-vending machines years ago. Irish vot lution at its annual meeting urging the United ers will consider legalizing divorce within a year. Nations to establish a unified AIDS program. WHO Director General Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima has ISRAEL nine months to report on the feasibility of a UN Gay, lesbian and bisexual soldiers in Israel can AIDS program. WHO’s Global Program on AIDS now advance to the highest levels of the military. received $4 million this year but cannot continue Israel’s armed forces recently declared they would without borrowing funds. The United States joined no longer discriminate on the basis of sexual 37 other countries in introducing the motion to orientation. A 1986 order forbade gay soldiers form a UN AIDS program. from entering top positions in intelligence and communications and allowed discrimination in Compiled by Irene K. Hislop - mm
