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Added on: 07/06/2024

LGBT Rights Under Pressure in Bukele’s El Salvador

07/05/2024

Hand in hand, Andrea and Fiorella attend an improvised mass in the garage of a house in San Salvador. There they say they don’t fear being discriminated…

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Added on: 01/02/2024

2023 World Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights Progress – Part 2: Latin America and Caribbean

12/31/2023

Latin American and the Caribbean didn’t see quite the dynamic changes that came in 2022, when three countries decriminalized gay sex and one legalized same-sex marriage. But…

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Added on: 10/12/2023

A SIMILAR TWIST: ABORTION TREKS WITH TRANSGENDER HEALTH

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There is an underreported and counterintuitive effect of denying abortion access: When abortion is safe, legal, and accessible, the abortion rate is typically lower. When abortion is…

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Added on: 09/24/2023

OPINION: Protecting undocumented immigrants and Dreamers is a queer rights issue

09/22/2023

In 2012, an undocumented immigrant from Indonesia named Rio Djiwandana began his studies at Georgetown University. During his first semester, he enrolled in the Deferred Action for…

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Added on: 05/20/2023

In El Salvador, transgender community struggles for rights and survival

05/19/2023

Fabricio Chicas knows exactly what will happen. As soon as he hands in his ID, the employee on the other side of the counter will look at…

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Added on: 02/21/2023

Women and LGBTQ people caught up in El Salvador’s state of emergency

02/20/2023

Keiry Molina’s world turned upside down last May when a police officer arrived at her home in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. The 46-year-old trans…

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Added on: 01/14/2022

Latin America: Alarming Reversal of Basic Freedoms

01/13/2022

(New York) – Latin America is facing some of its gravest human rights challenges in decades, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2022. “Latin America…

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Added on: 09/19/2021

Salvadoran president rules out allowing abortion, same-sex marriage

9/17/21

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on Friday a raft of constitutional reforms the government will send soon to Congress will not contain decriminalization of abortion, legalization of…

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Added on: 05/16/2021

In Juarez, Transgender Women In Limbo Await U.S. Asylum Exception

5/15/21

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We’re going to stick with immigration for a few more minutes. The U.S.-Mexico border has been closed to most migrants during the pandemic, including…

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Added on: 01/09/2021

No Safe Haven for LGBT People in El Salvador

1/8/2021

Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele agreed on December 15 to implement an Asylum Cooperative Agreement with the US government. It allows US immigration authorities to transfer non-Salvadoran asylum…

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Added on: 01/06/2021

Non-binary person granted asylum in first-of-its-kind ruling

01/05/2021

A non-binary person from El Salvador has been granted asylum in the UK in a first-of-its-kind ruling. Arthur Britney Joestar, 29, identified as a gay man when…

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Added on: 10/09/2020

Rights group denounces Central America anti-LGBTQ violence

10/08/2020

Human Rights Watch criticized Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala for failing to stop violence against LGBTQ people in a new report published on Wednesday, which also denounced…

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Added on: 07/31/2020

El Salvador police sentenced in nation’s first trans murder convictions

07/30/2020

A court in El Salvador has sentenced three police officers to 20-year prison sentences for the murder of a transgender woman, the nation’s first convictions in a…

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Added on: 02/11/2020

Two Gay Immigrants Left Everything For Safety In The US. Instead, They Were Sent To Guatemala.

02/10/2020

Sitting in a jet streaming toward Guatemala, watching the landscape shift below, Pablo replayed the scenes that had led to this moment. He recalled the day he…

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Added on: 01/22/2020

Homosexual and trans migrants ask for help from the LGBT community in Mexico

01/21/2020

Central American homosexuals and trans who travel in the migrant caravan this Monday ask for the attention and help of the Mexican LGBT community because of the…

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Added on: 01/14/2020

House Democrats to ask ICE to release all transgender immigrants in custody

01/13/2020

House Democrats are preparing to ask the Department of Homeland Security to release all transgender immigrants being held at long-term federal immigration facilities. Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley…

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Added on: 09/19/2019

Trans woman defies danger to champion LGBTI rights in El Salvador

09/18/2019

Bianka Rodríguez was leaving a San Salvador shopping centre when a man with a gun came up and forced her into his car. He proceeded to drive…

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Added on: 08/11/2019

LGBTQ asylum seekers persecuted at home and in U.S. custody

08/10/2019

With more than 800,000 migrants currently applying for asylum in the U.S., a growing number of immigrants rights groups are calling attention to the plight of LGBTQ…

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Added on: 07/16/2019

LGBT asylum-seekers exempt from ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy and can stay in US

07/16/2019

Asylum-seekers who arrive at the southern border and claim to be LGBT are exempt from the U.S.-Mexico “Remain in Mexico” policy and will not be returned to…

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Added on: 06/20/2019

Transgender migrants find safe haven in Juarez

06/19/2019

A rainbow flag sways in the wind outside a pink two-story house in an out-of-the-way Juarez neighborhood. Inside, 38 men and boys tell jokes, try on new…

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Added on: 05/14/2019

‘I Knew I Had to Get Out to Survive’—Violence Drives LGBT Central Americans North

05/13/2019

The desperation of daily life in Honduras is driving thousands of people to join other Central American migrants in their long march northward toward what they hope…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

The ‘angels’ helping migrants at US-Mexico border

01/16/2019

Hugo Castro rubs his temples before joining the sea of evening rush-hour traffic that snakes all the way from San Diego to the Mexican border. The beat-up…

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Added on: 01/09/2019

New asylum policy has big ramifications for Nogales, Sonora

01/07/2019

Four months after fleeing their home in El Salvador, the six members of the Meneses family arrived in Nogales, Sonora on Dec. 25 with documents ready to…

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Added on: 12/02/2018

LGBT CARAVAN ASYLUM SEEKERS COULD HAVE TO ‘PROVE’ STATUS TO GET INTO U.S.

11/30/2018

LGBT asylum seekers traveling from Central American countries to the U.S. may have to “prove” their status in order to claim asylum in the U.S., said a…

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Added on: 12/01/2018

Transgender Members Of The Caravan Are Having A Hard Time Finding Sponsors In The US

11/30/2018

Attorneys for transgender members of the caravan are rushing to find people willing to house them in the United States while their asylum cases play out in…

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Added on: 11/22/2018

LGBT Couples With Migrant Caravan Hold Mass Symbolic Wedding at Mexico-U.S. Border Town

11/19/2018

After making the arduous journey to the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a caravan of thousands of Central American asylum seekers, at least seven LGBT couples were…

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Added on: 11/20/2018

Tijuana shelters reaching capacity as migrant caravan continues to stream into border city

11/17/2018

Central American migrants continue to make their way toward Tijuana, even as the border city south of San Diego struggles to accommodate the more than 2,000 caravaners…

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Added on: 11/19/2018

Gay Couple from LGBT Migrant Caravan Marry in Tijuana

11/18/2018

A gay couple from an LGBT+ migrant caravan from central America married in an emotional ceremony in Tijuana. Pedro and Erick tied the knot in front of…

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Added on: 11/17/2018

LGBT Migrants Fled Persecution Back Home. Then They Fled the Caravan

11/15/2018

For most of the people traveling as part of a thousand-person migrant caravan in the hope of reaching safety at the U.S. border, the group represents their best chance…

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Added on: 11/13/2018

LGBT Migrants Leave Caravan over ‘Discrimination,’ Reach California Border

11/12/2018

LGBT members of a caravan of Central American migrants heading toward the U.S. border appear to have reached the California border after leaving the main group behind…