Document #1234222
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on the status of homosexuals in
Argentina, other than that already available to the requester in
the form of previous Responses and other material, could not be
found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC. As
indicated in two recent Responses, additional information has been
requested from two Argentine and one Canadian Non-Government
Organizations (NGOs). Any information received by the IRBDC before
the hearing date indicated in your Information Request form will be
immediately forwarded to you.
Response to Information Request ARG5808
quotes The New State of the World Atlas (map #55),
indicating that sexual relationships between men reportedly were
"unlawful and repressed" in Argentina at the end of 1986. The same
source indicates that "Gay consciousness as reflected in political
and social organization of gay men, end-1986" had been increasing
in Argentina. The World Human Rights Guide (p. 17) is also
quoted in that Response, indicating that the right "to practise
homosexuality between consenting adults" exists for people over age
22. A third, more recent publication, indicates in a map that
homosexuality in Argentina is legal although sometimes repressed
("Légale mais parfois réprimée") (Guillebaud
et al 1989, 105). The map, however, quotes as its sources of
information the two publications quoted in Response to Information
Request ARG5808.
Humana, Charles, ed. 1986. World
Human Rights Guide. London: The Economist.
Kidron, Michael and Ronald Segal. 1987.
The New State of the World Atlas. London/Sydney: Pan
Books.
Guillebaud, Jean-Claude et al. 1989.
Atlas mondial des libertés. Paris: Arléa.