The legal machinery of persecution is oiled, ready, and operating in Iran, and the Netherlands has a binding and absolute legal obligation not to send people back to face it. |
The majority of the management team, and I emphasize team, that was here when we built it up is still here, |
The police are using brutal harassment and detention without charge to clear transgender people off the streets. These attacks reflect a law enforcement system that is unchecked and operating outside the law. |
There's a sense of outrage at seeing the United States ally itself with governments like this. We're critical of most of these governments. Yet, when it comes to an issue like LGBT rights -- basically of our right to live -- we're willing to side with them. |
This vote is an aggressive assault by the U.S. government on the right of sexual minorities to be heard. It is astonishing that the Bush administration would align itself with Sudan, China, Iran and Zimbabwe in a coalition of the homophobic. |
United Families International is very active in the U.N.. You'll see they have several diplomats from the Mid-East on their advisory board. |
Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward. |
We are the experts, ... We run it, we operate it, we live it, we breathe it. |
We have done a lot of performance work on the file system so storage applications and databases should work faster. |