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  • Argentina's discrimination against Trans women

    By Erika Noely Moreno, trans activist from Argentina 9 August 2025 Erika Noeli Moreno, a member of Las Erika Noely Moreno is a trans woman and human rights activist from Argentina. Just by existing as a trans child, I was already a human rights activist. I always say that I began my transition at the age of five and finished it at 18. I told them that there was another trans woman, Laura Aixa Xuxú Aguilar Millacahuin, who had transitioned

  • Trump Administration Ends Protections for Trans Students

    administrations reached with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding rights and protections for transgender READ MORE: Transgender youths are targeted in Scouting America changes pushed by the Pentagon The decision It has filed lawsuits in California and Minnesota over state policies permitting transgender students sports, and opened civil rights investigations into schools and universities over their policies on transgender unlawful burdens that prior Administrations imposed on schools in its relentless pursuit of a radical transgender

  • 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

  • HRW: Peruvian Law Threatens Free Speech, Trans Rights

    people, including trans youth, from using public restrooms that correspond with their gender identity expression that they deem ‘inappropriate’ under the guise of safeguarding children, while scapegoating trans fears that equate the presence of transgender people in restrooms with a threat to children.   voted to open an investigation against Congresswoman Susel Paredes for  her alleged encouragement of trans violence against children and threatens the rights of the very people it seeks to protect, including trans

  • 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.

  • Guatemala: Anti-Trans Bill Threatens Rights

    Castillo (New York) – A group of lawmakers in Guatemala has advanced a bill that would stigmatize transgender 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 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.

  • 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

  • Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures

    Trans, intersex, and nonbinary people need IDs that accurately reflect who they are to travel, apply Total Healthcare Bans, Other Healthcare Barriers Healthcare Age Restrictions ban affirming care for trans Learn more: Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Have Nothing to Do With Privacy Restricting Student & Educator Facilities Bans, School Sports Bans, Other School Restrictions State lawmakers are trying to prevent trans Religious Exemptions, Other Civil Rights Restrictions Re-Definition of Sex bills attempt to exclude 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

  • Japan Forces Sterilization on Transgender People

    Japanese government has taken some positive steps to improve the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender But the country’s legal gender recognition procedure – the law that allows transgender people to be recognized hundreds of activist groups throughout the world will gather to mark the 8th annual International Day for Trans around the world, including the Japanese government, propagate medical and policy paradigms that deem trans people "mentally ill." ©2015 Reuters/Thomas Peter In Japan, transgender people who seek legal gender

  • Marginalization of the Baloch in Iran

    By Michał Jagielski Protesters marching in Zahedan city, Sistan and Baluchistan province. Photograph: UGC/AFP Sistan and Balochistan Province has been the victim of persistent attempts by the Iranian regime to oppress the Baloch and limit their capacity for mobilization. The events and policies described in this report are not isolated instances of ethnic persecution, but rather a strategy created to eradicate the Baloch. Tehran frames its policies as a response to the perceived terrorist threat, the subsequent instability, and severe underdevelopment, yet their true nature is vastly different. Militarization has normalized violence at security checkpoints, justified extreme surveillance, and allowed security forces to engage in extrajudicial killings and arrests, subsequently introducing insecurity into the province’s day-to-day life. Development projects, such as the Makran Development Plan, are often presented as opportunities, but they actually facilitate social engineering and resource exploitation. Religious discrimination, cultural suppression, and administrative restructuring aim to destroy the cultural identity and the communities of the Baloch. Furthermore, these policies deny the Baloch the opportunity to participate in the country's political, social, and economic life. The full report is available under:

  • Argentina: IACHR warns of erosion to women’s & LGBTQ+ right

    The government told the IACHR it had trained security forces in human rights and prevention of institutional , as well as the first-ever conviction of dictatorship criminals for kidnapping and torturing eight trans likewise celebrated the conviction of a man for the aggravated homicide of Tehuel de la Torre , a young trans

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