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world briefs
A U ST R A L IA
Gay and lesbian Australians may now use sick
leave to care for a lover, under a decision handed
down in late November by the national Industrial
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B R A Z IL
The eighth Brazilian Conference of Gays and
Lesbians and the first Brazilian Conference of
Gays and Lesbians Working with AIDS will take
place Jan. 26 to Jan. 3 1 at the Universidade Popular
do Trabalho in Curitiba, about 200 miles south
west of Sao Paulo.
Topics for the four-day general conference
include activism/militancy, international issues,
creation of a national gay organization, civil-union
contracts, intergenerational issues, religion, vio
lence, and visibility.
Topics for the two-day AIDS conference in
clude the media, de-homosexualization of AIDS,
queers vs. nongovernmental organizations, safer
sex, governmental AIDS efforts, and alternative
treatments.
To register, write Toni Reis and David Harrad,
Comissao Organizadora, Caixa Postal 1095,80001 -
970 Curitiba-PR, Brazil. Phone 011-55-41-232-
9829; fax 0 1 1-55-41-222-3999.
CH INA
Two Chinese lesbian lovers killed themselves
Dec. 4 by injecting Lysol because one wanted to
marry a man and the other didn’t want her to,
reported the Xin Min Evening Daily.
The women, aged 22 and 26, lived in Suihua in
Heilongjiang province and had been lovers for
several years, the newspaper said.
Most Chinese gay men and lesbians conform to
social pressure to marry.
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Beijing will be the site o f the United Nation’ s
fourth World Conference on Women, the theme of
which will be “ Action for Equality, Development
and Peace.” The conference will be held Sept. 4 to
Sept. 15, 1995.
A forum for nongovernmental organizations
will be held, also in Beijing, from Aug. 30 to Sept.
8, 1995. The forum, open to all interested women
and men, is a rare opportunity for people through
out the world to discuss key issues impacting
women’ s lives, to meet with women from other
countries, and to share strategies for the 21st cen
tury. (For related information, see calendar, Jan.
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EGYPT
Officials deported Nigerian soccer player Yusif
Omar on Dec. 11 because he tested positive for
HIV, according to Reuters.
Omar, 22, had signed on with the professional
team Olympic of Alexandria six months before.
Omar is the 227th person to be kicked out o f Egypt
for testing HIV positive.
Three hundred seventy-five Egyptians have
been diagnosed with AIDS and 178 have died,
according to Health Minister Ali Abdel-Fattah el-
Makhzanji.
GERM ANY
The German AIDS-H elp organization and the
Benneton clothing company draped a 50-foot-long
pink condom over the obelisk in front o f Potsdam’s
Nikolai Church on Nov. 27 to mark World AIDS
Day, according to an Associated Press report.
The church called the action an “abuse of
freedom” but the city government disagreed and
O K ’d the stunt.
The prophylactic was designed by French artist
Jean-Pierre Lostis.
PO LA ND
A survey by the Demoskop Institute found that
half o f the 958 Poles questioned think gay men and
lesbians are treated worse than other members of
society, according to the Polish Press Agency.
Fifty percent also said gypsies are treated poorly,
29 percent said Jew s receive bad treatment, and 22
percent believe former communists face discrimi
nation.
SA U D I A R A B IA
Islamic morality can prevent AIDS, Saudi Ara
bian Deputy Gov. Prince Sattam ibn Abdel-Aziz
said Nov. 29, addressing an AIDS conference in
Riyadh, the nation’ s capital.
“ One of the great sources o f relief stems from
teachings o f Islam, which, like other divine reli
gions, prohibits illegal sexual activities or drug
abuse,” the prince said.
Ninety Saudis have AIDS and 300 are infected
with HIV, according to the Health Ministry.
The nation tests foreign workers and deports
those who are HIV positive. It also bans young
people from traveling alone to countries known for
“ sex tourism,” such as Thailand.
SEN EG A L
Residents o f the town o f Thies prevented the
burial o f a gay man at a Moslem cemetery Nov. 19,
according to the newspaper Le Soleil, published in
Dakar, the capital.
They halted the funeral procession and ordered
the man’ s family to bury him outside o f town, the
newspaper said.
SO U T H A F R IC A
In Cape Town, health workers and politicians
wrapped a huge red ribbon around St. George’s
Cathedral on World A ID S Day, Dec. 1.
South African President Nelson Mandela stated:
“ AIDS knows no custom. It knows no color. It
knows no boundaries. We have to work together
wherever we are to preserve our nation, our conti
nent and humanity as a whole.”
U N IT E D N A T IO N S
On Dec. 12 the United Nations named Belgian
doctor Peter Piot as its first A ID S czar, charged
with mobilizing the resources o f all U.N. agencies
to fight the disease, reported Reuters.
Piot has been associate director of the World
H ealth O r
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gram on AIDS
since 1992 and
is a past presi
dent o f the In-
ternational
AIDS Society.
Piot will
head up the
AIDS work of
six U.N. agen
c ie s:
the
World Health
Organization; the Children’ s Fund; the Develop
ment Program; the Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization; the Population Fund; and
the World Bank.
Compiled by Rex Wockner