The Buenos Aires City Court is calling on transgender and transvestite people to join a collective legal action demanding priority access to housing subsidies. According to the court order, there is a deadline of mid-month to join the petition. The measure stems from a legal filing that…
Representatives of the LGBTI community met with the Human Rights Commission of the Salta Chamber of Deputies. The Commission will push for the elimination of the controversial Article 114 of the Provincial Code of Misdemeanors in the coming days.
The Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh) reported to the Ministry of the Interior a violent attack suffered by a trans woman, Francisca (30), last Saturday, April 27, in San Antonio.
They were denied entry. The dissemination of this act of discrimination prompted the National Institute Against Xenophobia and Racism (INADI) to intervene.
A prosecutor is requesting the dismissal of charges against five transgender women accused of small-scale drug dealing, citing the structural violence they face.
By Vero Ferrari, from Lima. News updated 4/2. Trans activist Claudia Vera was shot and killed in the early hours of March 30. She was on a street in the Independencia district of Lima with a group of friends. She was 30 years old and had been working for several years as a human rights defender…
By Pilar Salazar. Gaby Castillo is the first Guatemalan trans woman to produce LGBT films. Originally from the capital, she is 35 years old and a human rights activist. She is the general director of the project “Put Yourself in My Shoes” and associate producer with Javier Donis on the LGBT-themed short films “I Love You Marissa,” the story…
In 2018, 698 cases of violence and abuse based on sexual orientation or gender identity were reported in Chile. This is the highest figure recorded in the last 17 years.
This program acknowledges that there has been and is a systematic violation of the rights of trans people and seeks to alleviate state abandonment through a monthly financial contribution and access to social services.
Ghia Aixa Peña Acaro, a young trans woman, was attacked by a man who tried to set her on fire after beating her and pouring gasoline on her body. The attack occurred on Friday, March 15, in Piura, a city in northern Peru.
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