Following several reports of attacks against Ecuadorian trans and gender-diverse migrants in the Once neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Judge Andrea Danas ordered a police presence and patrol car in the area where three assaults occurred in the last month. The court ordered the Buenos Aires City Government to implement a series of measures to protect trans and gender-diverse migrants engaged in prostitution in the Once neighborhood. After three attacks in less than a month, Judge Andrea Danas, presiding over Court No. 3, issued this precautionary measure requiring a police presence and patrol car to guard the area around Moreno and Catamarca streets. The National Criminal Investigation Prosecutor's Office No. 9 responded today to a request for panic buttons from OTRANS Argentina, an organization comprised of the victims who filed a writ of habeas corpus. The request was made on December 30. Now the fundamental issue must be resolved: social inclusion through various programs, the presence of the Emergency Medical Care System (SAME) and the brigade against gender violence (137), among other requests.

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  In the last month, OTRANS Argentina has been denouncing a series of attacks against young trans and transvestite people who are in a situation of prostitution in the vicinity of Plaza Miserere. The first one was against Raiza, An Ecuadorian trans migrant, who had been missing for several days. Days later, Gabriela, Alex, Zuleika, and others were attacked in the street. Kimberly, who suffered a vicious beating with sticks, iron bars and stones early Saturday morning. They broke her nose and cut her arms, while insulting her and threatening to kill her. “This is the first time that trans and migrant women have received a response from the Buenos Aires City justice system in favor of their personal protection. We hope that the judges who intervene from now on will continue along the same path and that we can continue to advance in access to justice, to respond to the extreme violence experienced by our community,” the organization stated in a press release.  

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  Claudia Vásquez Haro, representative of OTRANS Argentina, said to Presents that “there are also acts of violence in the neighborhoods of Constitución and Palermo, where these types of violence are reported, which we know are the result of the blind hatred of people who threaten the lives of trans people. We know that this ends their lives. This year, at the international level, we are going to report to the Committee against Torture so that the Argentine government gives some kind of response. So far, it has not responded to either CEDAW or the organizations.”