Gay Chile

September 27th, Texas. The President will travel to Texas on September 27th. He will speak at a luncheon for the DNC Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council in Dallas. He will also speak at a reception for Congressman Max Sandlin at a DNC dinner in Houston, returning to Washington, DC, in what will apparently be very late in the evening. ... [Read More]

Persons

De Prat Gay, Gaston, Argentine Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 1972 ... [Read More]

Translated Documents

Vào thời điểm Liên Hiệp Quốc được thành lập, có tới 2/3 trong số thành viên các nước thành viên của Liên Hiệp Quốc ngày nay còn chưa tồn tại như những quốc gia độc lập chủ quyền, người dân của các nước này khi đó vẫn đang phải sống dưới chế độ nô lệ.   Thế giới này khi đó mới chứa đựng 2,5 tỉ người chứ không phải là 6 tỉ người như hiện nay. Ðiều đó cho thấy mọi thứ đã thay đổi như thế nào. Xuất khẩu trên toàn thế giới cũng đã tăng gấp 10 lần kể từ năm 1950, thậm chí ngay sau những điều chỉnh về lạm phát và hiện vẫn ... [Read More]

Index

De Prat Gay, Gaston, 203 ... [Read More]

US Department Of State Post Report

Although temperature differences between summer and winter are not wide, seasonal differences in dress are noticed.  In summer, bright, gay colors, and patterns in lightweight materials predominate; in winter, lightweight woolens and knits in darker tones appear.  A light jacket is occasionally needed, and during damp, rainy weather, a sweater or sweatshirt would be comfortable.  Slacks and jogging suits are worn year round.  Hose is rarely worn, except on dressier occasions or in office settings.  Locally produced panty hose is of variable quality, so bring a supply from the U.S.  A good selection of casual wear is a must for both seasons. ... [Read More]

Documents 292 through 307

Relations with USSR in the Human Rights Commission, 18th Session. Ambassador Morozov, the regular delegate to the Human Rights Commission, appeared only rarely during the session to shoot off a few salvos about colonialism and racial discrimination in the US by implication. His alternate, Mr. Ostrovski, was a young man who seemed rather to concentrate on the issues at hand and showed a willingness to be constructive and cooperative, generally speaking. He and his pretty wife came to all social gatherings of the Commission and were agreeable and gay. My adviser, Martin van Heuven, and myself decided to go to him informally about our concern, and that of many NGO's, regarding religious persecution of the Jews in the USSR. We felt, without much hope, it might help to improve religious rights of the Soviet Jews to ask him to relay our aide-memoire on the subject to his Foreign Office. We have learned that denunciations in open meeting result in long retaliatory speeches and no action. [Read More]

Brazil

b. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association The Constitution provides for freedom of assembly, and the Government generally respected this right in practice. Permits are not required for outdoor political or labor meetings, and such meetings occurred frequently. In August, an attorney from the Brazilian Bar Association's Human Rights Commission alleged that at least 31 homeless activists were beaten by military policemen as the activists disbanded from a land invasion by the "Sem Teto" homeless workers movement in Sao Bernardo, Sao Paulo. The attorney reported that police stopped seven trucks carrying activists away from the invasion and assaulted the activists. A federal judge barred a protest march by the MST and a counter-march by rural landowners in Rio Grande do Sul. The MST called the action unconstitutional, citing a right granted by the constitution to free movement wit ... [Read More]

Argentina

An Amnesty International report in 2000 expressed concern over reports that police targeted, tortured, and harassed gays, lesbians, and bisexuals (see Section 5). ...

Transvestite Vanesa Lorena Ledesma, also known as Miguel Angel Ledesma, died while in police custody in February 2000; the body showed signs of torture (see Section 5). Prosecutors refused to press charges against police officers after it was determined that the death was due to natural causes (heart failure). Human rights groups have pressed the Government, without success, to reopen the case. Ledesma's partner, Vanessa Piedrabuena, has received repeated threats and the police have raided her residence. Amnesty International and gay and lesbian rights groups actively follow the case, which U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture Sir Nigel Rodley also included in his January report to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights titled "Civil and Political Rights Including the Questions of Torture and Detention" (see Sections 1.c. and 1.d.). ... [Read More]