ADDED ON: 11/20/2022
Mothers of LGBTQ children join forces in Latin America
Fabu Olmedo is so nervous about clubs and restaurants in Paraguay that before a night out she often contacts one to make sure that she’ll be let in and won’t be attacked…
Guatemala
ADDED ON: 09/08/2022
How Targeting LGBTQ+ Rights Are Part of the Authoritarian Playbook
In the last three decades, protections for LGBT people’s rights have advanced rapidly in many countries and regions. However, rising populist authoritarianism poses a significant threat to this progress because abolishing sexual…
ADDED ON: 03/16/2022
“Life and Family” Bill is a Smokescreen for Corruption in Guatemala.
On International Women’s Day, March 8, the Guatemalan Congress passed an extraordinarily regressive “Life and Family” bill that undermines the rights of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. President…
ADDED ON: 03/10/2022
Guatemala increases abortion penalty, bans same-sex marriage
GUATEMALA CITY -- Guatemalan lawmakers have increased prison sentences for women who have abortions, bucking a recent trend in Latin America toward expanding access to the procedures. As some of Latin America’s…
ADDED ON: 01/25/2022
Guatemala: Anti-Trans Bill Threatens Rights.
A group of lawmakers in Guatemala has advanced a bill that would stigmatize transgender people and curtail children’s and adolescents’ rights to education, information, and health, Human Rights Watch said today. Congress…
ADDED ON: 01/14/2022
Latin America: Alarming Reversal of Basic Freedoms
(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 is experiencing such an alarming…
ADDED ON: 06/27/2021
Guatemala: 3 Killings of LGBT People in a Week
Unidentified assailants killed two transgender women and one gay man in Guatemala in separate attacks within the span of one week, including Andrea González, the leader of a trans rights organization, Human…
ADDED ON: 06/17/2021
Tireless fighter and beloved trans activist ‘assassinated’ just metres from her home in Guatemala
In Guatemala, frustration and grief swept the nation after two beloved and tireless trans activists were killed in two separate attacks just days apart. Andrea González, a 28-year-old who helmed trans rights…
ADDED ON: 05/14/2021
Guatemala LGBTI: Discrimination and Migration
Guatemala, located on Mexico’s southern border and bordering Honduras and El Salvador, is a country that has for decades experienced migration issues, in part related to violence within the country. Currently,…
ADDED ON: 04/20/2021
Immigrant Detention For Profit Faces Resistance After Big Expansion Under Trump
A dozen Central Americans in T-shirts that read Mujeres Luchadores — Fighting Women — marched through a small Texas town last month toward the gates of an imposing private detention center where…
ADDED ON: 04/09/2021
The Guatemalan asylum seeker who created a refuge for gay and transgender migrants on the US border
Kissing his partner goodbye on a normal day before heading to work changed the life of 32-year-old Estuardo Cifuentes forever. It was mid-2019 when he stepped out of his front door in…
ADDED ON: 12/06/2020
‘A Butterfly With My Wings Cut Off’: A Transgender Asylum Seeker’s Quest to Come to California
When she turned 15, like so many girls in her town in Guatemala, Luna Guzmán celebrated with a quinceañera. “My friend lent me the dress because she saw the way I used…
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