|
|
|
|
| Home | About IDAHO | Take action ! | News & events | Resources | Media | Our cause | Donate |
|
    |
|
 |
ABGLT – Asociación Brasilera de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexules, Transexuales y Travestis, Brasil Aireana - Grupo por los derechos de las lesbianas, Paraguay Asical - Asociación para la Salud Integral y Ciudadanía de América Latina y el Caribe CHA - Comunidad Homosexual Argentina CIPAC - Centro de Investigación y Promoción para América Central de Derechos Humanos, Costa Rica Diverlex - Diversidad e Igualdad a Través de la Ley, Venezuela Fundación Igualdad LGBT, Bolivia GAHT - Grupo de Apoyo a Hombres Trans, Chile GALE - Alianza Global para la Educación en Temas LGBT IGLHRC - Comisión Internacional de Derechos Humanos de Gays y Lesbianas MHOL - Movimiento Homosexual de Lima, Peru MUMS - Movimiento por la Diversidad Sexual, Chile Promsex - Centro de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos, Peru SPW – Observatório de Sexualidad y Política 
>> See all news |
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, announced the appointment of Carina Vance Mafla, who is openly gay, as Ecuador’s new health minister.
The American-born activist hit the ground running, with an announcement that the health ministry will be working closely with lesbian rights group Fundacion Causana, and other civil rights groups, to shut down the remaining religious clinics which promise to ‘cure’ lesbians.
Fundacion Causana, based in Quito, Ecuador, released a statement on the success (...) 
With a march through the streets of Lima, from Plaza Francia to the "Eye that Cries" -memorial to the victims of violence during the civil war (1980-2000),- fifty LGBT rights activists remembered victims of hate crimes and celebrated the National Day of Action against Violence and Hate Crimes based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
To the beat of a band that played music, according to the Andean tradition for burials, the activists marchedcarrying banners with the slogan "Not to (...) 
A vigil at the Esplanade of the Ministries, in Brasília, celebrated last May 17th the International Day Against Homophobia, Lesbophobia and Transphobia.
Giant photos projected against one of the National Library walls reminded the urgent necessity to approve the bill that makes homophobia a crime similar to racism.
The issue for this year’s campaign was "Cures That Kill". According to the campaign coordinator in Latin America, Jandira Queiroz, the therapies that propose the cures to (...) 
Celebrating the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, trans activists and INADI (National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism) of Argentina presented on May 17th the Administrative Resolution Nr. 60/14 of the Secretary of Justice of Tucuman province about physical appearance.
The Resolution states that from May 17th, 2011 the civil registration offices of Tucumán can provide shifts for changing the photo of civil identity documents to trans people, (...) 
Salazar Germania
Community representatives GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) performed yesterday outside the courthouse, a sit for the International Day Against Homophobia. They rejected all forms of discrimination and sadly remembered their comrades killed by homophobic people, lesbophobic, transphobic, etc. ”No more violence, no more abuse, no more discrimination,” he said dozens of protesters, many dressed according to their sexual orientation and gender.
Gonzalo Abarca, (...) 
From May 9 to June 10, Taller de Counicación Mujer will host an artistic installation at the Contemporary Arts Center, in Quito, Ecuador. The installation is a look at the processes of dignifying sexual diversity and respecting differences.
From May 9 to June 10, Taller de Counicación Mujer will host an artistic installation at the Contemporary Arts Center, in Quito, Ecuador. The installation is a look at the processes of dignifying sexual diversity and respecting differences, and comes (...) 
Activists from the Trans group Silueta X, prominent academics and state authorities came together at the Psychology School of the University of Guayaquil to hold the second edition of the national symposium on “phobia of sexual minorities,” which was this year placed under the sign of the “Cures that Kill” campaign. More information available here and here. 
Silueta X Association, is pleased to invite you, the 2nd Academic Conference: ”Sexual Diversities Phobia, Social Exclusion Factor-Stages and Progress from 2010 to 2011″ and the Forum: ”Cures That Kill. “
This event will include the participation of: Soc Fernando Sancho (Homophobia) - FLACSO Quito Ms. Johanna Izurrieta (Lesbofibia) - Fundación Yerbabuena of Guayaquil Jorge Santana (Interfobia) - Activist Independent Quito Mr. Tito Esparza (biphobia) - Equity Foundation of Guayaquil and Quito (...) 
