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Beenie Man's PR denies apology

04-08-2004 12:06 | Culture | Gender | London | World

Beenie Man's management distance star from "apology".

Beenie Man's so-called apology

03-08-2004 13:52 | Culture | Gender | London | World

Dancehall artist Beenie Man's office has released a statemnt "apologising" for his hate-lyrics. However, the "apology" neither mentions who he is apologising to nor whathe is apologising for. A satisfactory apology would go along the lines of:
(1) Acknowledging the suffering he has caused and apologise to the people he has victimized.
(2) Make a positive statement affirming his respect for gay people and his condemnation of homophobic violence.
(3) Come to an agreement with the record companies to withdraw his murder songs from circulation or, if this cannot be agreed, donate his royalties from these songs to a gay organisation campaigning against homophobic violence, such as J-Flag.

Stop Murder Music: Europe Action Alert

28-07-2004 18:05 | Culture | Gender | World

European gay and human rights groups are being urged to monitor and mobilize against homophobic Jamaican reggae singers who incite the murder of homosexuals.

Buju Banton wanted for gay-bashing

16-07-2004 18:30 | Gender | London | World

Top reggae star wanted on assault charges after gay men attacked in Kingston, Jamaica.

Nazila’s Life is in Great Danger!

According to the latest news from IFIR’s branch in Turkey, Nazila Mohamad Hasani Zamani’s life is in serious danger and she is threatened to be deported back to Iran by the Turkish Government. She was told by the Turkish police that the Iranian embassy has asked the Turkish police to hand Nazila over to them.

Nazila’s life can only be saved by an international pressure on the UNHCR.

Livingstone wrong on Qaradawi - again

15-07-2004 06:55 | Gender | London | World

“Ken Livingstone has done great work for the gay community, but by rolling out the red carpet for Dr al-Qaradawi he is siding with an oppressor of gay Muslims in Britain and throughout the Islamic world. In the name of fighting Islamophobia, the Mayor is colluding with homophobia. He seems to be downgrading the human rights of lesbians and gay men in order to appease Muslim fundamentalists.”

Livingstone sidelines liberal Muslims, women and gays

13-07-2004 08:49 | Gender | London | World

OutRage! protests against cleric Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the chief scholar of the website IslamOnline, which endorses the execution of homosexuals - who it discribes as "sick perverted and abonimable"; and which blames rape victims who dress "immodestly" for sex attacks, and outlines the conditions under which a husband can beat his wife.

Muslim cleric says: Death to gays and Jews

09-07-2004 09:10 | Gender | London | World

Giving a platform to Dr Al-Qaradawi is an insult to women, Jewsish and gay people. He endorses wife beating and the killing of homosexuals and Jews. We urge the Mayor of London not to host this misogynist, anti-Semite and homophobe", said Peter Tatchell of the gay rights group OutRage!.

Gay Pride mocks Jamaican hate singers

04-07-2004 11:29 | Culture | Gender | London | World

Gay Pride mocks Jamaican hate singers. Dancehall “Killer Queens” Exposed.
Are Beenie Man, Elephant Man and Bounty Killer secretly gay?
London Mayor Ken Livingstone condemns “homophobic lyrics”

Gay Pride, Labour Shame

01-07-2004 12:07 | Gender | Social Struggles | London | World

OutRage! exposes Labour's 20 failings on queer human rights. These are 20 concrete, specific instances when Labour had an opportunity to overturn homophobia, but chose to maintain discrimination. Labour talks a lot about equality, but often fails to deliver. When it comes to the crunch, the government seems more interested in appeasing the homophobes of Middle England than in enacting rights for queers.

NICK FERRARI racist discrimination on LBC

Nick Ferrari and his patron the LBC rear their ugly head again in another display of racist discrimination.

Capital is Masculine: Book Review

30-06-2004 16:51 | Gender | World

"The debt crisis of the South is one element of the current process of destruction. Inthethird world as a result of dependence on the North, relatively more is always spent on interest payments to the banks in the North than on satisfying elementary human needs. To pass off the policy of the North toward the South as exporting "civilization" is perverse.. The North exports.. the Moloch of the auto-city and nuclear power.."

Gays back Lord’s Amendment, but want it extended.

25-06-2004 14:24 | Gender | London | World

Gay Coalition urges ‘one law for all’

The Lord’s amendment to the Civil Partnership Bill has not ‘wrecked it’ or rendered it ‘unworkable’, as Government spokespeople have claimed”, according to The Coalition for Marriage Equality, which includes nearly all gay campaigning groups, except Stonewall.

Beenie Man questioned by police at Heathrow airport on arrival in UK

24-06-2004 09:05 | Culture | Gender | London | World

Concert cancelled after protest by gay rights group OutRage!

Slain Jamaican gay leader honoured in London

24-06-2004 08:57 | Gender | London | World

The London vigil was attended by members of the black and gay communities, including gay Jamaican asylum seekers who have fled to Britain to escape murder in Jamaica. Many in the crowd also held photos of Brian Williamson, emblazoned with the words: Born in Jamaica, Lived in Jamaica, Murdered in Jamaica….Gay hero! Jamaican hero!”

Vigil for murdered Jamaican gay leader

21-06-2004 09:56 | Gender | Social Struggles | London | World

Outrage is urging lesbians and gay men and their friends to join a vigil for slain Jamaican gay rights activist Brian Williamson outside the Jamican High Commission (1 Prince Consort Rd, London SW7) from 7 - 9PM, Wednesday 23 June.

Urgent call re Women's Day at the European Social Forum

17-06-2004 19:42 | European Social Forum | Free Spaces | Gender | World

At a women’s briefing meeting this week, we heard from UK organisers that giving women independent space was not seen as a priority. Yet the Women’s Day at the Paris ESF last November was decisive in making women’s campaigns visible, including grassroots organising against immigration and asylum laws, and against war and occupation. After 30 years of the modern women’s movement and feminism, nobody in the present ESF process seems to know why women must be able to meet independently. What do you think can be done to stop this backward step?

Support Palestine, but challenge homophobia

15-06-2004 16:36 | Gender | London | World

These issues aside, OutRage! values the work of the PSC. We will continue to support its efforts to help secure a free Palestine. We hope that in return the PSC will work with us to pressure the PLO, Hamas and the PA to abandon their homophobia and create a truly liberated nation based on human rights for all.

Gay Rights leader murdered and mutilated in Kingston

10-06-2004 20:38 | Gender | Social Struggles | London | World

Jamaican Gay Leader Murdered. Jamaican PM urged: combat homophobic violence. OutRage! condemns the murder of Brian Williamson, a leading human rights campaigner in Jamaica and a founder of J-FLAG.

No to United States Intervention in Venezuala

A referendum to recall President Chavez as well as a number of anti-chavista elected officials is being called for August. US pressure to overthrow President Chavez and get its hands on the oil of the venezuelan people is greater than ever. We demand that the media report what is happening in Venezuela rather than act as employees of the hated and unelected Bush administration

World Gender Newswire Archive

Beenie Man's PR denies apology

Beenie Man's so-called apology

Stop Murder Music: Europe Action Alert

Buju Banton wanted for gay-bashing

Nazila’s Life is in Great Danger!

Livingstone wrong on Qaradawi - again

Livingstone sidelines liberal Muslims, women and gays

Muslim cleric says: Death to gays and Jews

Gay Pride mocks Jamaican hate singers

Gay Pride, Labour Shame

NICK FERRARI racist discrimination on LBC

Capital is Masculine: Book Review

Gays back Lord’s Amendment, but want it extended.

Beenie Man questioned by police at Heathrow airport on arrival in UK

Slain Jamaican gay leader honoured in London

Vigil for murdered Jamaican gay leader

Urgent call re Women's Day at the European Social Forum

Support Palestine, but challenge homophobia

Gay Rights leader murdered and mutilated in Kingston

No to United States Intervention in Venezuala

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