Americas’ top human rights body hears first LGBT torture case
On Dec 2, 2016 the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported: BOGOTA – An eight-year legal battle by a gay Peruvian man who accused police of raping him went before the Americas’ […]
Category Archives: South and Central America
News and articles from South and Central America
Belize ‘giving us a fighting chance’
On Sept 29, 2016 The Washington Blade reported: NEW YORK — The plaintiff in the lawsuit against Belize’s sodomy law remains hopeful his case will resonate throughout the English-speaking Caribbean. […]
Gay Caribbean man granted refugee status after three year fight
Immigration and Refugee Board reverses earlier decisions On Aug 26, 2016 Daily Xtra reported: After a three year fight to stay in Canada, a gay man from St Kitts and Nevis […]
IACHR report on historic Belize judgment: Worsening conditions for gays in T&T
On Aug 24, 2016 the Trinidad Guardian Newspaper reported: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) says it welcomes the decision of the Supreme Court of Belize “that declared unconstitutional […]
‘They kill with so much hate’: Anti-LGBT violence soars in Brazil
On Aug 18, 2016 CBC News reported: A light scar remains where the knife entered, nearly imperceptible now in the dimness of Viviany Beleboni’s Sao Paulo apartment. Laser treatments have […]
Police, Gangs Major Perpetrators of LGBT Violence in El Salvador
On April 26, 2016 Insight Crime reported: Data collected by activists suggest security forces and gang members are the principal perpetrators of violence against members of the LGBTI communities in […]
An LGBT Person Is Murdered Every 28 Hours In Brazil
On July 11, 2016 The Huffington Post reported: On a Sunday, July 3, protesters in Brazil took to one of the main avenues in São Paulo to show their support […]
