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Showing posts with label argentina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label argentina. Show all posts
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Video: How the European Union is supporting international LGBT rights
Image via WikipediaOn 30 June 2011, the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights held a hearing on LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex) rights in the world. Members of the European Parliament, European Parliament staff, European Commission staff, ambassadors and members of the public heard from human rights defenders, civil society and high-level EU civil servants about the human rights of LGBTI people worldwide.
Andrzej Grzyb MEP, acting Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights opened the event.
Andrzej Grzyb MEP: Introduction from LGBT Intergroup on Vimeo.
Thursday, 5 May 2011
In Argentina, harassment causes suicide and Chile protests police assault on gay student
Image via WikipediaThe Federación Arg LGBT (FALGBT, Argentina LGBT Federation) is concerned about recent reports of violence against lesbians, gays and transgender people. And activists in Chile want clarification of what happened with a detained gay Chilean living in Argentina.
The group says that harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity was crucial in two cases of suicide and police abuse in a third.
Near La Rioja, on 16 April, a teenager took the tragic decision to commit suicide after suffering homophobic bullying, teasing and violence in the town of Chepes Rioja.
More recently, on April 27, a transgender woman hanged herself in the Cerro San Bernardo on the outskirts of the city of Salta, having fled her home.
A young Chilean student, Maximiliano Sepúlveda, is reported as having experienced coercion, brutal police assault, illegal detention and sexual assault by other prisoners in Oberá.
The President of FALGBT, Esteban Paulone, said:
"We are seriously concerned about the various situations that we have learned over the last few days. Obviously the urgent need to implement public policies throughout the country, to respond to a reality of violence and harassment they have an important part of our collective."He also said:
"The passage of the Equal Marriage Act meant a huge breakthrough in terms of rights, but much remains to be done. We must move forward on programs and activities that offer guarantees, security and integrity to the LGBT people and this is achieved by the state actions at all levels to urgently repair the high rights violations experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans."The Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual (Movilh, Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation of Chile) has made representations to their country's foreign ministry requesting that the Argentine authorities source reliable information on the allegations by the student about what happened to him.
"We appreciate the speed with which Mr. Gonzalez [director of the Human Rights Directorate of the Chilean Foreign Ministry] is taking this case and, in particular, which will assist our compatriots in the neighboring country," said President Movilh, Rolando Jiménez.
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Africans and Asians attracted to Latin America as a migration route
Image via Wikipedia By Mariana Echandi
Yakpaoro is part of a new trend in South America. The refugee from Guinea is one of a growing number of Africans and Asians, many of them refugees, making their way to the continent before joining mixed migration routes from the south to the north.
UNHCR statistics show that so far this year between five and 40 per cent of total asylum applications submitted in various Latin American countries were lodged by nationals from Asia and Africa. In the past, these countries were almost exclusively hosting refugees from regional states, especially Colombia.
This new trend in the region as well, as the risks that people in migration flows face – kidnapping, extortion, rape and other serious human rights violations – will be discussed at an important meeting Thursday in Brasilia on refugee protection, statelessness and mixed migratory movements in the Americas. Senior UNHCR officials will join representatives from 20 countries at the gathering, to be hosted by Brazil’s Justice Ministry.
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Video: CNN: US gay couples struggle with immigration
A gay couple struggles to spend time together because of the immigration laws. CNN's Adriana Hauser reports.
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Argentina refuses to recognise Canadian same-sex marriage, deportation threatened
Image by Truthout.org via FlickrBy Mathilde Guillaume
[Google translation]
A Spanish woman could be deported because the demand for recognition of her civil marriage with an Argentine woman has been denied. Both women were married two years ago in Toronto, Canada, and Spain had already recognized their union.
"Let the world know that the foreign presence in the country is uneven, and that his temporary residence previously granted is revoked. His expulsion and prohibition to return to the country may be made within thirty days. "
This is the response of the Directorate of Migration has received the Spanish CP (who prefers to remain anonymous), age 42, when she asked what Argentina recognizes the civil marriage with Diana Argentina Cordero. Both women were married two years ago in Toronto, Canada, and Spain has already recognized their union, and sent them a family book. Until last December, she lived in Venezuela, but we were forced to move to Argentina due to problems of health of the mother of Diana Cordero. "Since then, it has been a complete disaster," says Argentina " She is an architect but can not work legally, and we can not access any of the economic rights guaranteed to other families while we are legally married. We feel like second-class citizens. "
A threat of expulsion gives a halt to LGBT rights in Argentina
According to counsel the couple, Florencia Kravetz "the fact that the state refuses to recognize a marriage validated in another country violates the law of migration. That said, I hope I am wrong but I have little hope that justice shall grant the application of my client." The couple has filed a complaint with the National Institute against Discrimination (Inada), supported by the Argentine Federation LGBT (Falgtb). "They will pass over our bodies if necessary, says Maria Rachid, president of the association, but we will prevent the deportation and will assert the rights of the couple. "Uncertainty is unbearable, lamented Diana Cordero. It's like a sword of Damocles over our heads. We know they can come at any moment to return to Spain." The threat of expulsion, a few days after the opening of a Congressional debate over marriage for gay people represents a return back to the LGBT rights in Argentina.
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Mariée au Canada, une lesbienne espagnole est menacée d’expulsion en Argentine
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