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Afro-descendant

General Recommendation No. 5 of the MESECVI: A New Front in the Fight Against Gender-Based Violence Against Afro-descendent Women in the Americas

Washington DC, July 25, 2024.– This International Day of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women, the Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights (Race and Equality) joins efforts to...

ENLGBTI

LGBTI organizations that make Pride possible in Latin America

Washington DC., June 28, 2024.- On International LGBTI+ Pride Day, Race and Equality recognizes that the fight for the rights of LGBTI+ persons has been a long and ongoing...

Afro-descendantCuba

OAS General Assembly: Race and Equality to dialogue with civil society and experts on racial discrimination, gender-based violence and hemispheric security

The events will be attended by IACHR special rapporteurs and activists of African descent, the LGBTI+ population, and women's and land rights defenders.

Nicaragua

Mother’s Day in Nicaragua: The International Community Must Amplify its Cry for Justice

May 30th marks Mother’s Day in Nicaragua, a day that should represent happiness and peace, but in this Central American country it is marked by mourning and pain. We...

LGBTI

IDAHOBIT: Celebrating the most recent advancements in the struggle of LGBTI+ persons

Washington D.C., May 17, 2024 -. “No One Left Behind: Equality, Freedom, and Justice for All” is the global theme for May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia,...

LGBTICuba

Five years after 11M in Cuba: LGBTI+ activism, stories of repression, jail, and forced exile

On the occasion of the commemoration of the conga against homophobia and transphobia on May 11, 2019, which ended with dozens of people arbitrarily detained and besieged, we speak...

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