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UNAIDS: Expanding the Global Partnership to End Discrimination

To Celebrate the Human Rights International Day, the Executive Secretary of the Network of Women Sex Workers of Latin America and the Caribbean (RedTraSex) and the UNAIDS Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, have the honor to invite you to participate in the Launch of the Global Partnership For Action to Eliminate all Forms of HIV related Stigma and Discrimination in the Latin American and Caribbean region.

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Protect Intersex Persons' Rights, 34 States Tell UN

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In a historic first, 34 States from all regions of the world called on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently protect intersex persons in their bodily autonomy and right to health, 8 NGOs said today.

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Panorama of the legal recognition of gender identity in the Americas

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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.

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Latin America, the only region in the world that restricts mobility by gender in the midst of a pandemic

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Panama, Peru and the Colombian cities of Bogotá and Cartagena implemented the controversial measure, which has been widely criticized by LGBTI groups and by feminist activists, who consider the norm discriminatory.

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Panama tells police to be fair on trans people in gender-based lockdowns

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Authorities in Panama have ordered police to avoid discriminating against LGBT+ people during the country’s gender-based coronavirus lockdown following an outcry over trans people being detained for going outside on the “wrong” day.

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Panama’s Gender-Based Quarantine Ensnares Trans Woman

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When Panama announced it would implement a gender-based quarantine schedule in response to COVID-19, transgender activists were alarmed. And with reason: on April 1, police detained a transgender woman alleging that she was male and out on “the wrong day.”