Bernarda Pesoa, leader of the Santa Rosa community of the Qom people and territorial and environmental defender of the Paraguayan Chaco, has once again received death threats.
In the last week, organizations and activists warned about the increase in violence against the LGBTIQ community and mentioned a peak in the month of April.
The three-session workshop was held virtually from November 23 to 25, 2020, and was attended by journalists from media outlets in various parts of Latin America.
Maricela Rodríguez, her 12-year-old daughter, and her partner Alejandra arrived in Mexico a month ago fleeing the lesbian-hating attacks they suffered in Honduras, their native country. Along the way, they were scammed and assaulted, and now they hope to obtain asylum.
The courts have reopened an investigation into the online harassment of a gay couple who were physically assaulted in September 2020 in Buenos Aires. The police response will also be investigated.
Activist Ese Montenegro analyzes the context of the disappearance and search for Tehuel de La Torre in Argentina and focuses on the structural violence suffered by trans men.
The National Court of Cassation acquitted Mariana Gómez of the charges of minor injuries and contempt of authority, for which she was convicted in 2019. The ruling acknowledges the lesbophobic discrimination of the Police and the Judiciary.
The Chilean activists were prosecuted in 2019 for demanding justice for Nicole. After the trial, the Prosecutor's Office was supposed to compensate them by allowing them to paint a mural in homage to the victim of lesbicide. Now, it has broken that agreement.
LGBT+ organizations delivered to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace the first report that compiles the victimizations suffered during the armed conflict.
One year after the spread of Covid-19 in the country, what have been its effects on LGBTI people deprived of their liberty?
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