ADDED ON: 05/19/2021
Giant Rainbow Flags Fly In Havana
Cuba draped its health ministry with a giant rainbow flag on Monday to mark International Day against Homophobia, in a key year for LGBT+ rights as the Caribbean country decides on a…
Central America and Caribbean
LGBTI Rights in Central America and Caribbean
ADDED ON: 05/16/2021
In Juarez, Transgender Women In Limbo Await U.S. Asylum Exception
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 those seeking asylum. The majority…
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: 05/03/2021
Court could force Honduras to stop ‘social cleansing’ of trans people
International LGBT+ advocates are waiting anxiously for the verdict of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which monitors human rights in the western hemisphe. The top tribunal was prompted to intervene last…
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: 04/15/2021
Promising Guyanese designer found murdered in Trinidad
Police in Trinidad and Tobago are investigating the murder of 27-year-old Guyanese-born fashion designer, Marc Anthony Singh. The youth who moved to Trinidad several years ago, was found stabbed to death in…
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: 03/11/2021
Panama: Bill Bars Same-Sex Couples from Adoption
Panama’s National Assembly passed a bill on March 3, 2021, that includes a discriminatory prohibition on adoption by same-sex couples, Human Rights Watch said today. Bill No.120, which aims to protect children…
ADDED ON: 03/07/2021
Confronting Jamaica’s hydra of deadly religious homophobia
Research by Jamaica’s most respected university found that religious homophobia is a major reason the country lags the rest of the western hemisphere in recognizing LGBT human rights. A pernicious brand of…
ADDED ON: 02/19/2021
Honduran LGBT+ advocates in legal bid to stop same-sex marriage ‘lock’
Honduran LGBT+ advocates on Thursday mounted a legal challenge to changes made to the constitution by lawmakers that make it harder to reverse the existing ban on same-sex marriage. Last month, members…
ADDED ON: 02/19/2021
Inter-American rights body finds Jamaica violated LGBT rights
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) found in a landmark decision released Wednesday that the Jamaican government is responsible for violating the human rights of two of its nationals within the…
ADDED ON: 02/18/2021
Jamaica should repeal gay sex ban, says Americas top rights body
KINGSTON, Feb 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Jamaica should repeal its colonial-era gay sex ban, the top rights body of the Americas said on Wednesday, in a symbolic landmark ruling on LGBT+…
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