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The Scientific Humanitarian resolution comes at a time Committee in 1897. when a trade agreement The federal government between the European will finance the foundation Union and Egypt is await with $3.75 million annually ing ratification. for the next five years. “T h e Association Opposition members of Par A greem ent contains a liament from the Christian Democrat-Christian Social Magnus Hirschfeld is believed to have human rights clause, but the European Com m is Union voted against the been the world’s first gay activist sion and Council have so funding. far been reluctant” to make use of it, said Kurt Krickler of the International Lesbian and Gay B E LG IU M Association’s European branch. “If the EU ew research reveals that children bom to proclamation on having a coherent approach lesbians with help from a sperm donor are in promoting human rights in the world is to just as well adjusted as those raised by married he taken seriously, it is time to put words into heterosexual couples via copulation. action and start using the measures set out in Scientists at the Dutch-Speaking Brussels the human rights clauses.” Free University studied 41 kids whose lesbian In the past year, Egyptian police have mothers got pregnant with donated sperm. “No arrested hundreds of men for allegedly engag differences were found between youngsters ing in gay sex ( “the habitual practice of raised in lesbian families and those raised in het erosexual families with regard to the quality of debauchery”). 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However, Article 209 will not he removed from the law -c- books until February 2003, leaving activists Swedish gay man who gave a lesbian cou worried that conservative legislators might ple his semen so they could have kids must come up with a less gay-friendly alternative in pay child support, an appeals court confirmed the meantime. June 20. Igor Lehnberg, 36, must pay $265 a month to the mother who kept the three kids U N IT E D K IN G D O M after the women split up. ritain’s Foreign Office will begin dissemi nating information on what gay people can expect when traveling abroad, the Pink Paper nti-gay President Robert Mugabe “has reported. 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