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TMM Update Trans Day of Remembrance 2020

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

“The death of Alejandra has become a flag for our march because we want justice, but above all we want this to stop,” Salamanca said.

ICJ ran a SOGIE Facebook Live Campaign for Pride Month

The ICJ hosted live interviews with human rights defenders from Asia, Africa and Latin America to mark Pride Month, which is celebrated during the month of June in various parts of the world

Colombia: Thousands of people cry out against violence against trans people in Bogotá

More than a thousand people marched this Friday in the center of Bogotá to cry out against violence against trans people, with special rejection of the death of Alejandra Monocuco, a trans woman who died a few years ago. weeks after an alleged negligence of the Mayor in his medical care.

Over the Rainbow? The Road to LGBTI Inclusion

 This report provides a comprehensive overview of the extent to which laws in OECD countries ensure equal treatment of LGBTI people, and of the complementary policies that could help foster LGBTI inclusion. 

What’s happening with every Pride in the world

Okay, maybe not every Pride, but a whole whack of them—with updates on what’s been cancelled, postponed or moved online

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.

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.

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

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.