Notables Urge India to End 145-Year Ban on Gay Sex
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The letter, signed by Indian luminaries, comes less than two months after a similar plea from the government AIDS agency.
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India plans to recruit one young man   and woman from every large village in the country to over the   next five years teach their peers about safe sex and HIV, a   health official said on Wednesday.
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A group that promotes AIDS awareness blasted a Singapore law that prohibits gay sex, saying it impedes efforts to educate homosexuals about the dangers of HIV transmission through unsafe sex.
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&quot;No Rubba no Hubba Hubba&quot; is the message being pushed in a campaign launched at Parliament today to try and stem the high rate of sexually transmitted infections.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged religious leaders to drop bans on condoms, vital in curbing the spread of AIDS, according to a pre-recorded television interview on World AIDS day.
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India has the world's largest number of HIV-infected people, the head of a top international AIDS-fighting fund said Wednesday, dismissing official figures.    "I don't believe in the official statistics...
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Tens of thousands of gay activists march through Rome, demanding more rights for same-sex couples.
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A Pakistani Senate committee has proposed an end to the four-decade ban on showing movies from India, Agence France-Press reported. In a statement on Tuesday, the committee referred to the films when it said, âThe ban has practically become ineffective as these are being viewed uncensored in almost every household on cable TV as well as CDs and DVDs, necessitating a reappraisal to deal with the issue rationally.â.
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GODHRA, India  - Nearly 90 Muslim men are waiting in an Indian jail for a trial that may never happen, under a law that no longer exists, accused of triggering one of India's worst religious riots in Gujarat in 2002.
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NEW YORKâAnti-gay groups are furious over Vice President Dick Cheney&#39;s seeming dismissal of a federal ban on gay marriage, especially because President Bush himself has gone on record supporting such a ban.
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Quake-hit Andaman island groups are demanding a ban on migration from mainland India, writes BBC's Subir Bhaumik.
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An international human rights group has accused President Yoweri Museveni's government of promoting "state homophobia" in Uganda and urged the repeal of a colonial-era law against sodomy.
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Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on Friday to demand new HIV drugs, while health workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.
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The high court in the Indian capital, Delhi, dismisses a  petition seeking to legalise homosexuality.
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NEW DELHI -- Amid a climate of growing sexual tolerance in urban India, a campaign to force the government to decriminalize homosexuality is gaining momentum.
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In a movie-mad country where people are  shy about discussing sex, a Bollywood film-maker hopes to shed  some light on India's potentially disastrous HIV problem.
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Pakistani rights activists called on   the government on Sunday to suspend Islamic laws on rape and   adultery until controversy over them is settled.