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been banned.
ew rules from New Zealand’s Health
Funding Authority permit lesbian cou­
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fertility treatments. In the past, such women
often had to pay the $900-a-cycle fee them ­
selves because of regional inconsistencies in
eligibility criteria.
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AUSTRALIA
INTERNATIONAL
| he Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
1, of Europe approved a sweeping series of
recommendations in support of gay and lesbian
equality Sept. 26.
The assembly, which is composed of mem­
bers of parliament from 41 European nations,
called upon European governments to, among
other things, ban sexual-orientation discrimina­
tion in their national legislation; revoke all laws
that criminalize gay sex between consenting
adults; release anyone imprisoned for homosex­
ual acts between consenting adults; apply the
same age-of-consent laws to homosexual and
heterosexual acts; fight homophobia in schools,
the medical profession, the armed forces and
police forces; and enact registered-partnership
legislation.
“This is a great development,” said Nico
Beger, an International Lesbian and Gay Asso­
ciation delegate to the Council of Europe. “The
recommendations were carried by a majority of
77 percent. Although the vote is not binding on
national governments, it represents a most pow­
erful statement of democratic opinion across
Europe and as such will help influence the
development of government policies across the
continent.”
Founded after World War II, the council
aims to strengthen democracy, human rights
and the rule of law in its 41 member states. The
European Convention on Human Rights is the
most important of its many hum an rights
treaties.
Violations of the convention
are settled by the European
Court of Human Rights. The
council is governed by the for­
eign ministers of its member
states (Committee of Minis­
ters) and by representatives
from national parliaments
(Parliamentary Assembly).
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1 t month not to pay a pension to the part­
ner of openly lesbian member Giz Watson in the
event of her death.
“I thought I was demystifying it [homosexu­
ality] a bit for them,” Watson told The Australian
newspaper. “I don’t bring it up often, and I argue
more passionately about saving a bit of bush
than this stuff. In some respects I’ve almost gone
out of my way to be accommodating of their
views, because if you want tolerance you also
have to display it. But obviously it hasn’t had
enough influence. Maybe I’ve been too nice.”
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MALAYSIA
total of 111 Malaysian men were arrest­
ed by the Islamic Affairs D epartm ent’s
morality police for “attem pting to commit
homosexual acts” last year in Kuala Lumpur,
the capital city.
"Homosexuality is forbidden in Islam,”
Abdul Kadir Che Kob, the department’s head of
education and research, told TIME Asia. “It is a
crime worse than murder. They are shameless
people.... How can men have sex with men?
God did not make them this way. This is all
Western influence.”
A total of 50 morality officers work for the
department. They are permitted to arrest only
Muslims and spring into action only after
receiving a complaint.
“Usually, people give us precise informa­
tion like where these men are,” Abdul Kadir
said. “We then go to the place, say, a hotel
room. We knock and force them to open the
door, but they are usually fully clothed by
then. We still charge them for attem pting to
com m it homosexual acts.
“We charge them in court [and] put them
through what we call Islamic counseling
sessions," he said. “They recite the Koran every
day, and we will tell them they have
committed a grave
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New Zealand Court
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m onth that the Film and
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