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  • Guatemala: Anti-Trans Bill Threatens Rights

    The bill would also require media outlets to label programs with transgender content, which the bill aim to promote tolerance, not demean a vulnerable minority, especially given the high levels of anti-trans association aimed at promoting evidence-based care, education, and research in transgender health, has Guatemala’s Human Rights Ombudsperson’s Office reported that between December 30 and January 2, two trans , especially on contraceptive methods, HIV/sexually transmitted infections, and violence.

  • UK trans people don’t feel safe on the street

    Majority of Brits would support family coming out – but trans people don’t feel safe on the street By majority of British households are accepting of all LGBTQ+ people – but, more damningly for the UK, that trans Meanwhile, 63 per cent they would support a family member coming out as trans. and 67 per cent would support a surrogacy pregnancy, while numbers are around 10 per cent lower for trans Comparatively, only 57 per cent of trans people said they felt safe in their area.

  • Honduran state responsible for trans woman’s murder

    In a landmark ruling for transgender rights, the Honduras government has been found responsible for the 2009 murder of the trans woman and activist Vicky Hernández. “Just to be born trans puts your life at risk in Honduras,” said Spellmant, “but to be trans and to be “This is a case about a trans woman, presented by trans women,” said Spellmant. Transphobia in Latin America remains pervasive and deadly and trans women in the region have a life expectancy

  • OAS Court Orders Protection for Honduran Trans People

    Hernández was an activist for trans women who had been violently attacked before. “They don’t want trans people on the street.” Flores said, “here in Honduras, where we are, there’s a lot of violence against trans people. Trans women are the most discriminated against and are more often the victim of crime and lose their to become extremely important milestone,” he said, adding that it will help people recognize that “trans

  • Coping with trans-generational trauma: a key feature of peacebuilding work in Rwanda

    Trans-generational trauma: an existing reality in Rwanda The transmission of trauma from one generation ,” it was revealed that the legacies of the 1994 genocide and its aftermath have been transmitted to Towards creating a conducive environment for effectively coping with trans-generational trauma in Rwanda implement appropriate mechanisms for grassroots advocacy; identify and acknowledge issues related to trans-generational rights of imagining and creating the future they want. https://www.peaceinsight.org/blog/2017/12/coping-trans-generational-trauma-key-feature-peace-building-work-rwanda

  • Trans Women of Color Face Violence and Hostile Legislation in the South

    All of the victims were trans women of color, who are at particular risk of deadly violence. According to data from the Human Rights Campaign, of the 53 known trans murder victims in the US between Of the seven trans women murdered so far this year, Collier was the only one who lived in a state with Meanwhile, transgender rights advocates in some Southern states now find themselves fighting anti-trans The measure has drawn widespread criticism from trans rights advocates who point out that it targets

  • Members of Congress Urge Sessions to Investigate Violence Against Trans People

    And reports of such crimes appear to be on the rise: At least 27 trans people were killed last year, almost all trans women of color, according to the LGBT advocacy group GLAAD. During the first two months of 2017, at least seven trans women of color met the same fate. (The bureau didn't specify how many of these were murders or how many targeted trans women of color specifically the state level have also opted, for budgetary reasons, not to collect data on hate crimes against trans

  • Guatemala marred by killings of three LGBTQ+ people

    Andrea González, a prominent activist and leader in the transgender women’s organisation Otrans Reinas She joined Otrans in 2013 as a community health promoter, worked as a nurse at the group’s trans women “Every day the human rights of trans people are being violated,” she said. A rally for trans rights outside Guatemala’s constitutional court, 17 May 2021. lives, and to pass a comprehensive trans rights law.

  • Genocide Emergency: Iran

    Shia Islam is the dominant faith in Iran. Baha’is are Iran’s most significant non-Muslim religious minority. Protests against the regime have since erupted throughout Iran. of Iran’s population. Iran's laws encourage state and societal violence against them.

  • Iran's Government Arrests Prominent Critic

    Prominent commentator and academic Sadegh Zibakalam Iran’s judiciary has confirmed that political commentator He has been especially critical of Iran’s nuclear program and has previously acknowledged the State of The attacks resulted in the deaths of over 100 people and left more than 280 others injured. © Volant

  • Iran's strike coincided with crackdown at home

    Iranian women walk on a street amid the implementation of the new hijab surveillance in Tehran, Iran, Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo DUBAI, April 23 (Reuters) - The same day Iran Under Iran's sharia, or Islamic law, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting As Iran's drone and missile assault unfolded on April 13, Tehran Police chief Abbasali Mohammadian went On April 14, the intelligence unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned against any pro-Israeli posts

  • 9 Protesters Killed in Indonesia’s Papua Province

    Particularly telling are the frequent attacks on infrastructure projects, such as the 4,300-kilometer Trans-Papua local culture and facilitate the extraction of the region’s rich natural resources, while facilitating transmigration Over the past five years, particularly since the attack on the Trans-Papua Highway, Papua province in

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