350 trans and gender-diverse people reported murdered in the last year
Colombia: Violence is just one of the sufferings of trans people in a pandemic
The death in Bogotá, on May 29, of Alejandra Ortega 'Monocuco', a trans sex worker from Magangué who apparently had covid and who apparently did not receive medical attention when she reported that she was HIV-positive; The police harassment last weekend for six hours of Emma Hidalgo, another trans woman, when she was trying to enter the Medellín Metro.
Colombia: A Black Trans Sex Worker Died After Paramedics Failed To Take Her To The Hospital
ICJ ran a SOGIE Facebook Live Campaign for Pride Month
Colombia: Thousands of people cry out against violence against trans people in Bogotá
Colombia: Three investigations open after the death of a trans woman in Bogotá
Over the Rainbow? The Road to LGBTI Inclusion
What’s happening with every Pride in the world
Panorama of the legal recognition of gender identity in the Americas
The American continent is characterized by being the most violent region towards people with Non-normative gender identities in the world. These cycles of violence, present in all areas of life of trans people, are intermingled with high levels of discrimination and stigmatization, resulting in lack of access to their civil, political, economic, social rights, cultural and environmental.
Colombia: This is the decree that extends the isolation until May 31
Argentina: “I don’t want to die of COVID-19, but I’m starving, and I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep on taking my ARVs for HIV”
The Americas Volunteer Strategy was born in the days of COVID-19. An initiative launched by Marcela and her colleagues from the MLCM+ with the support of the UNAIDS office for the Southern Cone, which to date is present in 17 countries in the region, with 850 volunteers, and more than 3,000 requests for help.