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Special Issue: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBTQ+ Health and Well-Being

This special issue on the impacts of COVID-19 on LGBTQ+ health and well-being reports findings from nine articles with varied study designs, including data from multiple countries and all segments of LGBTQ+ communities.

Chile: New wave of homo / transphobic attacks

Insults, blows of feet and fists and threats received by the victims in different episodes of violence that, in one of the cases, encountered homo / transphobia by the police. Along with advising those affected, the Movilh called for an end to homo / transphobic violence and the urgent reform of the Zamudio Law

TMM Update Trans Day of Remembrance 2020

350 trans and gender-diverse people reported murdered in the last year

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Chile: Murders and beatings of men who make dates with other men through apps on the rise

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El Movilh pointed out that in less than a year 4 people have been killed and about 15 beaten, in a context where 84.9% of homo / bisexual men acknowledge that they agree to dates with other men through applications. The last fatal victim was Miguel Arenas Rodríguez, murdered in Colina The family, together with the Movih, are preparing a complaint

Chile: Equal marriage project achieves approval of articles in the Senate Constitution Committee

Both the president of the instance, Alfonso De Urresti, and representatives of the LGBTI organizations questioned the absence of the spokesperson Jaime Bellolio from the commission held this past Friday at noon. The minister - who explained in the morning that the government still does not have a position on this initiative - excused himself, arguing that at that time he had been summoned to speak to the mixed budget subcommittee.

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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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Poland: Writers, actors and directors call for end to homophobia in Poland in open letter

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More than 70 signatories including Poland’s Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, Margaret Atwood and Mike Leigh accuse president Duda’s government of using LGBTQ+ people as ‘a scapegoat’

Chile: Sex workers and women living with HIV / AIDS denounce lack of sexual health care and absence of female condoms in the government box

Margen Foundation for Sex Workers and ICW Chilean Chapter of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, issued a statement calling on the Government of Chile to guarantee access to health, as well as access and use of the female condom at all times, including the delivery of HIV therapies multimes all people living with HIV, as recommended by UNAIDS.