Presentes Agency - Journalism on Gender, Diversity and Human Rights

Friday, October 23, 2026

GENDER, DIVERSITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM FROM LATIN AMERICA

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Cannon fodder: the book that recovers silenced stories of transvestites and trans people during the civic-military dictatorship

The book, published by the Trans Memory Archive, compiles the testimonies of transvestite and trans victims of State Terrorism. Fifty years after the civic-military coup, it is a fundamental record.

Lechedevirgen: “Undoing art means restoring its ritual and collective dimension”

Why the trial for the murder of Eldin and Milton could be historic for Guatemala's LGBT community

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Banner The Factory

Banner The Factory

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Banner - HIV Comic

39th Plurinational Meeting: Transfeminism charts the horizon of a new country

LGBT hate crimes: when it's the police who kill

Searching mothers: why they camped for almost a month and what they demand from the Attorney General's Office of Mexico

Transfeminicide in Mexico: landmark ruling and legislative neglect in Nuevo León

The diverse Brazil that Erika Hilton, trans congresswoman, wants to build

The Right to Abortion in Mexico: “We have legal access but not real access”

Featured

Gender is being rewritten. Is the future non-binary?

How to cover LGBTQ+ news

3 tips for journalists

What does the acronym LGBTIQ+ mean?

Journalistic mapping of hate crimes in Argentina

What are we talking about when we talk about "cis"?

LGBT Human Rights Reports

A comic about living with HIV+

Banner: Torture Therapies in Paraguay

Banner: Torture Therapies in Paraguay

Research

Based on the questions raised by daily news, we propose a series of investigations to try to deepen and systematize knowledge, expertise, and practices.

Without access to healthcare and hormones: the reality for trans people in El Salvador

Sexiles in Paraguay: why and where LGBT+ people migrate

Schools in Paraguay are not a safe space for LGBT+ youth

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Special #transmedia: LGBTI+ Older Adults

Special #transmedia: LGBTI+ Older Adults

Indigenous Women

El Zapallar Massacre: The Indigenous Slaughter Seeking Justice After 90 Years

Gloria Pérez, spiritual and political leader of the Ava Guarani people

Tropachün, the young Mapuche woman captive and exhibited for over a century in a museum

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Opinion

Voices of activism and journalism in the first person.

“Humanitarian aid is not an act of charity”

“Moving is resisting and imagining”: diversity and care to change migration policy in Mexico

To denounce and to cancel: between denunciation and the illusion of justice

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We are committed to journalism that delves into the territories and conducts thorough investigations, combined with new technologies and narrative formats. We want the protagonists, their stories, and their struggles to be present.

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