The coronavirus pandemic has impacted abortions around the world, with lockdowns complicating access in some places, while other countries made it easier to get at-home medical abortions. But despite stay-at-home orders, the world's legislatures, courts and politicians have continued to make key decisions to expand or roll back rights.
El Salvador: Police Officers Convicted for Transgender Murder
LGBT asylum seekers' claims routinely rejected in Europe and UK
El Salvador: Coronavirus lockdown leaves LGBTQ Salvadorans even more vulnerable
In the months since the coronavirus pandemic began in China, it has affected the whole world and El Salvador is no exception. Apart from not acquiring this virus and taking necessary sanitation measures, there are also concerns over the violation of human rights and the lack of support for the most vulnerable people who have been affected by the country’s mandatory lockdown.
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.
El Salvador: Murder Trial for El Salvador Transgender Woman to Proceed
El Salvador’s Justice System Takes on a Historic Case
UNAIDS: Violence faced by key populations
El Salvador: Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in El Salvador on the rise
El Salvador: Pressure mounts for El Salvador to investigate wave of LGBT+ killings
El Salvador: Pressure mounts for El Salvador to investigate wave of LGBT+ killings
El Salvador: Naciones Unidas llama a investigar y sancionar crímenes de odio
The United Nations System in El Salvador calls on national authorities responsible for investigating these crimes to punish the perpetrators, to recognize transphobia as aggravating, and to take urgent measures to prevent further acts of violence based on prejudice and hate against the LGBTI community.