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ingaporean men who travel to nations with
high HIV rates will receive government-
issued safe-sex packets prior to their departure,
Minister of State for Health Balaji Sadasivan
announced Nov. 23.
The kits include condoms, warnings against
casual sex and toiletries. Singapore has docu
mented 1,788 cases of HIV infection.
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I bout 2,000 people marched Dec. 1 through
r \ downtown Kathmandu carrying placards
reading, “Live and Let Live."
Nepal formulated an AIDS policy just this
year. “Affected people should he rehabilitated
and provided with opportunities of livelihixxl to
enable them to live without social stigmas
attached to their names,” Health Minister Upen-
dra Devkota said.
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SWITZERLAND
witzerland’s Cabinet unveiled gay partner
ship legislation Nov. 29.
“The recognition by the state of the partner
ship between persons of the same sex will con
tribute to ending discrimination, which hits
homosexual couples particularly hard, and to less
ening prejudice against homosexuality,” the gov
ernment said in a press release. Justice Minister
Ruth Metzler told reporters, “The picture of same-
sex couples hugging and kissing on the street
should become normal."
Same-sex partners would register at the civil
state office, where they would commit to living
together and to mutual respect, assistance and
economic life. A non-Swiss partner would he
granted residency.
Registrees would acquire marriage rights in
the areas of inheritance, social security and
divorce. Adoption and assisted-procreation
rights are not included.
“A doption is
an institution of
social assistance
to children,” the
government said.
“There is no right
to adoption.... If
the law autho
rized a homosex
ual couple to
adopt a child,
this child juridi
cally would have
two fathers or
two mothers, in
stead of a father
and a mother,
Ruth Metzler
and this would
contrast with the order of things.”
The government said about 30 federal laws
would have to he modified to accommodate the
partnership scheme. Gay groups welcomed the
measure while denouncing the adoption and
assisted-procreation restrictions and lamenting
that same-sex couples simply arc not being grant
ed access to regular marriage.
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he recent Gay Games lost $1.4 million, and
the company Sydney 2002 Gay Games Lim
ited likely will file hankmptcy, the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation reported Dec. 4.
“The timing was probably unfortunate,”
administrator Peter Marsden said. “The Bali
bombings in September had a significant impact
on the number of people that actually came to
Australia for the Games.”
The festival injected an estimated $56 million
into Sydney’s economy. About 12,000 competitors
from 80 nations competed in 31 sporting events.
An Bohua told China Daily. “Condoms are the
most effective tools for...protecting people and
their partners from sexually transmitted disease.”
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'Thina lifted a ban on condom advertising
✓ Dec. 1, the State Administration of Industry
and Commerce announced. A 1989 policy pro
hibited all advertising related to sex.
Officials say China, population 1.3 billion,
could see 10 million HIV infections by 2010.
About 1.5 million people are believed to be
infected now.
“The ban should have been lifted a long time
ago,” state family planning spokesman
Canada spanked televangelist R.W. Schambach
(left, with wife Winifred) for his hate speech
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Canada’s Vision TV violated media ethics
s during an anti-gay program, the Canadian
Broadcasting Standards Council has ruled.
According to the Nov. 28 issue of Toronto’s
Xrra.\ during a February broadcast of the program
Power Today, evangelist R.W. Schambach said:
“Homosexuality is not another lifestyle. It’s a
demon spirit. In the beginning G<xl made Adam
and Eve. He didn’t make Adam and Steve.... Gixl
made you a man; Gixl made you a woman. And the
devil has come in, and he’s thwarted the program of
G od.... What you do in private, God's gonna splash
it all over the front page. Demon spirit."
The council declared: “Intolerant comment
can find no salvation by wrapping itself in religious
garb. Broadcasters of religious programming must
he as vigilant with respect to other social values
(such as the human rights of identifiable groups) as
broadcasters of all other types of programming."
Vision T V ’s infraction carries no penalty.
However, the network does have to air the
council’s decision, once during prime time hours
and once during Power Today.
In a separate ruling, the council detennined
Queer as Folk does not breach broadcasting sex
guidelines, hut Showcase was ordered to air a
viewer-discretion warning after each commer
cial break. The network must broadcast the text
of the council’s ruling, once during prime time
and once during the program.
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he province of Alberta must offer gay cixj -
ples family health insurance, a tribunal of the
Alberta Human Rights Commission ruled Dec. 4-
This means the government “is in a position
to accept same-sex couples as a family, so that
gives you all sorts of rights and obligations under
the law,” plaintiff Keith Purdy told the Canadi
an Press wire service. Alberta’s socialized health
care system charges $22 a month for individual
coverage and $44 for an entire family.
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he leader of Nunavut said Nov. 23 that the
territory does not give out condoms in pris
ons because gay sex does not occur behind bars.
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