Keili González reported that while walking through downtown Nogoyá, Entre Ríos province, a group of men insulted and threatened her from a car for over a block and a half. She has already filed a report with the prosecutor's office, and a demonstration will be held tomorrow in front of the courthouse.
This was determined by the Office of the Prosecutor for Institutional Violence (Procuvin) in a report following testimony from victims. The report denouncing institutional violence was presented as part of the investigation led by prosecutor Laura Belloqui.
Angie Velasquez was searched in the street, forced to undress, subjected to police abuse, and then imprisoned in Florencio Varela. During the month she spent in detention, her health deteriorated. She died yesterday. The organization Otrans Argentina, of which Angie was a member, filed a lawsuit today against a judge and three prosecutors for “Aggravated homicide in conjunction with torture by action and omission and in conjunction with illicit association.”.
Through screenings of the “Trans Memory Archive”, curated by María Belén Correa and Cecilia Estalles Alcón; the photographs of Marcos Adandía; and a panel discussion with representatives of sexual diversity, the international photography and human rights meeting “Rights in Focus” kicks off the week of Remembrance in Argentina, vindicating, among other things, LGBTI identities and their struggles.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published a statement highlighting recent measures by Peru and Paraguay to guarantee the rights of the LGBTI population, but expressed concern about the conservative waves in civil society.
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that a transgender inmate at the Alto Hospicio prison (Iquique) may only be examined by female nursing staff. The ruling also mandates that prison officials receive training on gender identity and expression.
From the media and public opinion to government policies, there are prejudices and a lack of understanding about HIV and its connection to young people. These statements, repeated so often, take root and become accepted as truths that are not actually truths. Researcher Grisel Adissi, a specialist on the subject, lists the most common myths and debunks them one by one.
The arrests were made around 8 p.m. on Monday, following a complaint from a neighbor. Police searched them on the street and then took them to police station No. 8, located at 500 Urquiza Street, where they were detained and held incommunicado by order of Federal Judge No. 5, Marcelo Du Giorgi.
For two months, several people approached the program to request information and register. Now the second stage begins, where five will be selected after the development of professional profiles. The goal for 2017 is to have 10 transgender people incorporated into the program.
Sasha Sacayán, a leader of the Anti-Discrimination Liberation Movement (MAL), an organization for the rights of transvestite and trans people founded by her sister Diana, says: “We were able to observe the operation as a whole. There were no disturbances from those of us who were there. Nothing was broken. The media focused on cheap sensationalism when the ‘provocative fanatic’ Ignacio Agustín Montangut appeared. He was neither that fanatical nor that innocent. We managed to remove him from the scene so he wouldn’t become a victim.”
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