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Chile: Activists criticize how the gender identity law will be implemented
“There was no work with civil society, and the few meetings that (the government) held did not invite all the activists and organizations that worked for this law.”
Hate crime in Rosario: he was brutally murdered, it's being investigated as a robbery
Marcelo Giudici, La Faraona, was a renowned stylist from Rosario, a trainer of hairdressers, an LGBT activist and an artist.
Uruguay: first call for trans job quota in the State
State Waterworks (OSE) has launched its first recruitment drive for transgender workers in Uruguay. Those interested can apply through the agency's website until July 15th.
Crimes against lesbians remain unpunished in Chile: they demand justice
Every July 9th, since 2015, the memory of Mónica Briones - a lesbian murdered during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet - drives a day of Lesbian Visibility.
Trans activist Bessy Ferrera murdered: fifth hate crime this week
Just nine days into July, statistics in Honduras already show five hate crimes. Three trans women and a bisexual man were murdered, and there was an attempted murder of a trans woman.
Two trans women attacked in one week: gunshots and bottles thrown at them
Pride Month ended with two hate crimes against transgender people in Paraguay. Barbi Aquino was shot in the arm in the early hours of June 27, and Andrea Casanova was attacked with a glass bottle on June 29.
A Jamaican trans woman seeking refuge in Argentina had three fingers cut off.
Angeline is a Jamaican asylum seeker in Argentina who escaped from one of the most homophobic countries in the world and arrived in Buenos Aires, where she rented a room in Villa Soldati.
She worked at the port and they stopped hiring her because she is trans.
Lucy told Presentes that the problems with the company began five years ago when she came out as her gender. "They started treating me badly, complaining, and insulting me, but I put up with it because I needed the job."
Police officers arrested for the murder of a trans woman in El Salvador
Police in El Salvador arrested three officers from their force on suspicion of having participated in the kidnapping and aggravated homicide of Camila Díaz, a trans woman in January 2019.
A man stabbed his gay son: "He's a faggot who's an embarrassment."
The Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh) reported today two cases of domestic violence affecting an 18-year-old and a 54-year-old worker, both of whom were attacked by relatives because of their sexual orientation.