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LGBTI Rights in Central America and Caribbean

ADDED ON: 07/21/2018

Barbados: Religious Criticism not Deterring LGBT Pride Parade
07/20/2018 | Loop News

Religious leaders can huff and puff until they are blue in the face, the local LGBT community will not be deterred by their criticism. This was the view expressed by Barbados Pride…

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ADDED ON: 07/20/2018

Barbados: Church Decries LGBT Agenda
07/20/2018 | Barbados Advocate

The local church is ready to fight against any attempt to make homosexual preferences a human right in Barbados. Yesterday, ahead of a Gay Pride March scheduled to take place next Sunday,…

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ADDED ON: 07/18/2018

Violence, Discrimination Prompts LGBTI Hondurans to Migrate
07/17/2018 | Washington Blade

Members of Colectivo Unidad Color Rosa, an LGBTI advocacy group in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, on July 11 were sewing a transgender Pride flag for an upcoming march. On…

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ADDED ON: 07/16/2018

How Trinidad and Tobago Played a Key Role in India’s Ongoing LGBT Hearing
07/15/2018 | Economic Times

In the end, it happened amazingly fast. After the 18 years it has taken so far to fight the Section 377 case, for decriminalization of consensual same-sex relations, the lawyers and activists involved had…

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ADDED ON: 07/10/2018

Trump Policies Will Send LGBT Asylum Seekers to Their Deaths
07/09/2018 | The Advocate

The Department of Justice is hoping to restructure the U.S. asylum system to bar anyone who enters the country illegally from applying for asylum, news that Vox broke recently. The proposed changes…

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ADDED ON: 07/09/2018

Gay Marriage Does Not Fit in a Communist Country, Cuban Evangelicals Say
07/08/2018 | Miami Herald

Five Evangelical churches in Cuba say they oppose same-sex marriage because the ideology of gender is totally foreign to Cuban culture or “the historic leaders of the Revolution.” The Evangelical League of…

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ADDED ON: 07/01/2018

Thousands Celebrate Pride Day Across Latin America, Caribbean
07/01/2018 | teleSUR

Thousands of members of the LGBT community marched to celebrate International LGBT Pride Day Saturday with participants in several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean taking to the streets to demand…

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ADDED ON: 06/29/2018

Nicaragua’s LGBT Community Urges Ortega to Resign
06/28/2018 | Yahoo News

Nicaragua’s LGBT community joined with devout Catholic adherents on Thursday in demanding the resignation of President Daniel Ortega and an end to political violence that has left 220 dead in just over…

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ADDED ON: 06/25/2018

LGBT Pride March Celebrates Diversity in Guatemala
06/24/2018 | Business Standard

Thousands of people took to the streets here for an LGBT pride march, demanding equality and an end to sexual discrimination and homophobia in the South American nation. Several LGBT rights groups…

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ADDED ON: 06/24/2018

Who’s Really Crossing the U.S. Border, and Why They’re Coming
06/23/2018 | Lawfare

Over the past week, the separation of 2,000 children from their parents along the U.S. border has forced immigration into the national spotlight. The majority of migrants aren’t dangerous criminals. Many are…

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ADDED ON: 06/23/2018

Who’s Really Crossing the U.S. Border, and Why They’re Coming
06/23/2018 | Lawfare Blog

Over the past week, the separation of 2,000 children from their parents along the U.S. border has forced immigration into the national spotlight. The majority of migrants aren’t dangerous criminals. Many are…

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ADDED ON: 06/20/2018

How Caribbean Courts and LGBTI Activists Nudge us Toward Justice
06/20/2018 | 76 Crimes

As courts strike down anti-sodomy laws across the Caribbean, the region’s governments have been freed to embrace LGBTI rights, says Jamaican/Canadian activist Maurice Tomlinson. On June 5 the 48th General Assembly of…

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