We are an international and independent network made up of people and social organizations that work for recognition, the protection and guarantee of the rights of LGBTI people in the American continent through strategic litigation, advocacy actions and communication strategies. The LGBT Litigants Network of the Americas was formed in 2019 as a space for dialogue, cooperation, and exchange of experiences among its members of 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries.
From an intersectional perspective, regional and thematic, we seek to unite in urgent actions to identify and eradicate violence and discrimination due to prejudice. For this we frequently share knowledge, experiences and good practices among the countries of the region.
Three cases that we have supported before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
What happens to LGBTI+ people deprived of liberty in America and the Caribbean??
Our fight for the rights of LGBTI+ people in the region does not stop
We form a team of legal activists committed to human rights and sexual rights. We are summoned by the possibility of social and political transformation through our critical incidence with the law. We vindicate the political struggle and the commitment of so many who made the path before us, in much more adverse contexts. We are thanks to their rebellions, such as psychological care, Legal support in cases of discrimination and violence, Political Advocacy, Trans Health, Social help, Trans community development, Communication Actions, Education and training.
The Center for Legal and Social Studies is an Argentine human rights organization created in 1979, during the last military dictatorship, that promotes the protection of rights and their effective exercise, justice and social inclusion, At national and international level. Today the main areas of work are: the memory, truth and justice for crimes committed within the framework of State terrorism; social inclusion and economic, social and cultural rights, such as access to public policies on mental health, sexual and reproductive rights, And the expression freedom.
Lawyer from the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires. Master's and Doctor of Laws from Yale Law School. She is a Teaching Researcher at the National University of General Sarmiento and Full Professor of the Doctorate and Master's Degree in Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the University of Palermo.. She is an expert in sexuality and law, secularism, religion and state, and right to equality and non-discrimination. Teaches Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Topics on Legal Pluralism and Discrimination: Case Study and Theory.
Doctor in bioethics and Law with more than 18 years of experience conducting research and providing political advice particularly on human rights, science, bioethics, future generations, gender equality and education. Currently in charge of the social and human sciences program for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNESCO, leading the implementation strategy of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and conducting research and policy advice to countries. Involved in major discussions on ethics, gender, human rights, technologies, neurorights and education.
The NGO IGUAL aims to implement social advocacy actions, cultural, politics, legal and communicational for defense, recognition and promotion of the rights of the population with diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and other social groups that are affected in the exercise of their rights, to contribute to a society with equality, equity, Justice, social responsability, free from discrimination and violence in the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
We are a group formed mainly by law operators, with the participation of professionals and students from other areas, no restrictions, since our work is multidisciplinary. All our members have a common goal, what is fighting for the dignity of the LGBTI population, in the pursuit of their broader rights and in the fight against homophobia and transphobia. The objective of GADvS is to act through the law in favor of sexual and gender minorities, combating discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Brazil and Latin America.
DeFEMde was created in early 2016 at the initiative of a group of Brazilian feminist lawyers, with the aim of combating discrimination against women in the legal field, in their various careers. Since graduation, we have noticed that the application of law and legal relationships develop in a misogynistic and sexist way. Thus, not feeling represented and verifying that the Law did not encompass the gaze of women in their various forms, DeFEMde was created.
Fundación Iguales was born on 6 June 2011, thanks to the work of Pablo Simonetti, Larraín and Antonio Bascuñán, who met with the idea of creating an institution that would work towards equal rights and non-discrimination of sexual diversity. For more than 10 years have influenced relevant legislative advances for sexual and gender diversity such as the Anti-Discrimination Law, Civil Union Agreement, Gender Identity Law, reform of the Adoption Law, Equal Marriage and General Education Law.
OTD was born in 2015, within Chilean transfeminist activism. Since then they have been working for the rights of the transgender community in Chile and the region through different lines of action.: like psychological care, Legal support in cases of discrimination and violence, Political Advocacy, Trans Health, Social help, Trans community development, Communication Actions, Education and training.
Diversas Incorrectas was born from the dream of three women to make structural changes in the sexist state of affairs that we face daily in Colombia.. Given the lack of visibility and the different problems that women experience, specifically lesbians, bisexual and transgender, These three women question themselves in order to confront a patriarchal culture, from feminism, inclusion and empowerment.
The Group of Action and Support for Trans People Foundation - GOES, is a social organization that works for the defense and vindication of human rights and full citizenship of people with trans life experiences and their support networks in Colombia, especially in the city of Bogotá.
Work for the strengthening of social and political subjects that contribute to the construction of peace in Colombia from a human rights perspective. Work holistically for sexual and reproductive rights, for the rights of the LGBTI community and for the rights of women.
Founded in 2004, Colombia Diversa is the leading human rights defense organization for LGBT people in Colombia.. His work focuses on three main areas: 1. Promote and defend the human and legal rights of LGBT people in Colombia. 2. Work to positively transform perceptions about LGBT people in Colombia. 3. The promotion of the organization and political impact of the LGBT community in Colombia.
Dejusticia is a center for legal and social studies located in Bogotá, Colombia, dedicated to strengthening the rule of law and promoting human rights in Colombia and the Global South. As an action research center, our goal is to promote social change by conducting rigorous studies and solid proposals for public policies, conducting advocacy campaigns in high impact forums, public interest litigation and designing and delivering educational and training programs.
Experienced professional with more than 9 years of teaching at the university level, 9 years of experience in project management and 20 years as an LGBTI activist. His experience lies in the social sciences, particularly in data, human rights and education. He has developed various consultancies and has exceptional skills in reviewing information for reports and investigations., work with vulnerable groups, technological solutions for work development and team leadership. His achievements include publications that provide visibility to vulnerable groups and support for the creation of public policies., rules and legislation.
Lawyer from the University of Costa Rica. He was legal advisor in the Legal Directorate of the Presidency of the Republic and was part of the team that prepared the request for advisory opinion OC-24/17 before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He was Presidential Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ Population Affairs and currently works as a litigator and activist in Costa Rica. He is founder of the Alliance for Inclusive Education and the Museum of Identity and Pride.
Since the year 2017 The Pakta Foundation has been working for access to the right to identity of the LGBTIQ+ population in Ecuador. From strategic litigation actions, We have participated and been relevant actors so that the Constitutional Court of Ecuador recognized the self-perceived gender identity of trans people in 2017 and the family identity of same-sex couples in 2018. Since the year 2018 Pakta began to promote the processes for the recognition of Equal Marriage, that its result materialized in June 2019.
She is a lawyer from the “José Simeón Cañas” Central American University and has worked as an activist in favor of sexual diversity., politics, religious and cultural in El Salvador. She is currently Executive Director of the Family and Friends Foundation for Sexual Diversity of El Salvador.. He has litigated important cases on gender identity recognition., among them the case of Karla Avelar, which reached the Supreme Court of Justice and later the IAHRS.
Lambda Association is a non-governmental organization whose main focus is the defense and protection of the human rights of LGBTIQA+ people in Guatemala and the Latin American region.. Since our foundation in 2010, we have worked on at least four focus areas: access to justice, strategic litigation, human mobility and political impact, carrying out and executing projects in order to achieve a more inclusive and respectful for LGBTIQA+ people. Throughout our history and experience we have achieved regional alliances, generated pioneering research documents on violence and other actions of great relevance in improving the rights of LGBTIQA+ people in the country.
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Cattrachas is a lesbian feminist organization dedicated to defending the Human Rights of LGBTI people in Honduras.. It was founded in the year 2000 as a response to the context of violence exercised against diverse sex-gender people. The Media Monitoring Center is the main source of all the work carried out by Cattrachas. As a collection tool, documentation and information analysis SIMMAL is used, system that allows the transversal and differentiated study of different strategic lines. Posteriorly, the Monitoring Center transfers reports to the Legal Area, which serve as evidence to support cases of national and international strategic litigation.. Both litigation cases, such as the reports prepared by the Monitoring Center, They are part of the strategy to achieve progress in favor of sex-gender diverse people in Honduras; y, They serve as a basis for the production of knowledge through publications on the subject..
EQUIS Justice for Women is a feminist organization that since 2011 seeks to transform institutions, laws and public policies to improve access to justice for all women in Mexico. We work for comprehensive justice that takes into account the intersections between gender and other categories such as: race, ethnicity, class, disability, migratory status, gender-gender identity, sexual preference, among other.
Letra S, Page, Culture and Daily Life, AC is a non-profit civil organization dedicated to the dissemination of information on issues related to the Health trinomial., Sexuality and Society, particularly with issues of sexual diversity, the gender, The hiv, sexually transmitted infections and sexual and reproductive rights.
The Trans Youth Network of Mexico, through the affective as radical and transformative politics, collectively weave support networks, reflection and defense of Human Rights against violence, stigma and discrimination due to prejudice.
Amicus is a civil society organization based in León, Guanajuato, that since 2015 works every day to defend and promote the rights of LGBT people + mexican, with the aim of contributing to the construction of an inclusive Guanajuato and Mexico without discrimination through the use of human rights as a tool to achieve social change.
Human rights lawyer specializing in gender perspective. Experience in defense and strategic litigation dealing with decision makers and technical experts. She currently works in the General Unit of Scientific Knowledge and Human Rights in Interculturality of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico and is Co-founder of the Feminist Circle of Legal Analysis.
The Foundation is a non-profit organization, which arises from the need to accompany legal initiatives for claims of rights, by focusing on generating positive social change towards respect for human rights, especially lesbian rights, application, bisexual, trans, intersex y queer. The idea arises from the great challenge encountered by a group of lawyers who began the process of legalizing same-sex marriage, facing a national debate on rights that had never taken place in Panama.
Promsex is a feminist non-governmental organization that, through advocacy, knowledge generation and alliances, helps people decide on their sexuality and reproduction with autonomy, dignity, justice and equality. Promsex inspires feminist leadership at the local level, national and regional, strengthened its technical recognition and capacity for innovation and strengthened inclusive alliances for public political advocacy on Sexual and Reproductive Rights.
Lawyer from the National University of San Agustín, with a Postgraduate Degree in Procedural Law and Master's studies in human rights and democratization from the Global Campus of Human Rights, National University of San Martin, Argentina. Legal advisor for diversity groups, litigant for the recognition of the right to identity and human rights of vulnerable populations.
Associate professor at the University of the Pacific. He has a master's degree in Law (LL.M.) por Harvard Law School (United States) and lawyer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has served as a senior specialist in the Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington., D.C. (United States). His current areas of research are hate speech within the framework of the right to freedom of expression and the legal regulation of sexuality., especially focused on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Female transsexual activist, She is the daughter of Andean peasants, great-granddaughter of an Afro-Peruvian woman, and educator and defender of the rights of trans people in Peru. She has been a candidate twice for the Congress of the Republic.. She studied law at the National University of San Luis Gonzaga but the institution does not recognize her gender identity, which is why she has not been able to process her university degree..
Dominican lawyer specialized in Public International Law, International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law. Throughout my academic and professional career, I have focused on using international law and its institutions to advance the recognition of the rights of people and, in particular, LGBTI people. He has worked at the International Criminal Court, the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and in the LGBTI Rapporteurship of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is a non-profit organization that works to realize Robert Kennedy's dream of a peaceful and just world.. The core programs of the RFK center focus on the power of the individual, working through alliances and organizations, to generate changes.
Synergy – Human Rights Initiatives envisions a world in which all people enjoy all their human rights, free from violence and discrimination. To achieve this reality, our work seeks to protect and promote the human rights of all people, especially those whose rights are most frequently and atrociously violated.
Fanny C. Gómez-Lugo is a queer feminist, Venezuelan lawyer, with more than sixteen years of experience in advocacy, litigation, movement development and teaching in the areas of international human rights law, reproductive rights, sexual rights, and rights of LGBTQI+ people. She is Director of Research and Advocacy at WEC, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law School and independent expert on US asylum cases for LGBTQI+ people.
Lawyer and Master in Gender Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She has worked as a researcher for the law group, gender and sexuality (Hurry up) from the same university and in the legal advocacy team of the NGO Promsex. She is currently the Technical Secretary of the LGBTI Litigators Network of the Americas and the LGBTI Network Without Violence..
Graduated in the degree process from the Faculty of Law of the Externado de Colombia University, with research experience, quarrel and accident (political and legal) in national and international Human Rights bodies, specifically regarding the protection and guarantee of rights of LGBTIQ+ people
They seek to actively defend and promote the supremacy of law; combat impunity in all its forms; ensure fair and equitable trials; act to strengthen the security and independence of human rights defenders; offer continuous training to legal professionals; strengthen the capacities of justice actors and members of civil society.
Human Rights Watch is a non-governmental, non-profit human rights organization, made up of approximately 400 members located all over the world. Its staff is made up of human rights professionals, including experts from the countries in which they operate, lawyers, journalists and academics of various origins and nationalities. Founded in 1978, Human Rights Watch is recognized for its accurate investigation of the events, impartial reporting, effective use of the media, and the defense of objectives, often, in partnership with local human rights groups.
We form a team of legal activists committed to human rights and sexual rights. We are summoned by the possibility of social and political transformation through our critical incidence with the law. We vindicate the political struggle and the commitment of so many who made the path before us, in much more adverse contexts. We are thanks to their rebellions, such as psychological care, Legal support in cases of discrimination and violence, Political Advocacy, Trans Health, Social help, Trans community development, Communication Actions, Education and training.
The Center for Legal and Social Studies is an Argentine human rights organization created in 1979, during the last military dictatorship, that promotes the protection of rights and their effective exercise, justice and social inclusion, At national and international level. Today the main areas of work are: the memory, truth and justice for crimes committed within the framework of State terrorism; social inclusion and economic, social and cultural rights, such as access to public policies on mental health, sexual and reproductive rights, And the expression freedom.
Lawyer from the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires. Master's and Doctor of Laws from Yale Law School. She is a Teaching Researcher at the National University of General Sarmiento and Full Professor of the Doctorate and Master's Degree in Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the University of Palermo.. She is an expert in sexuality and law, secularism, religion and state, and right to equality and non-discrimination. Teaches Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Topics on Legal Pluralism and Discrimination: Case Study and Theory.
Doctor in bioethics and Law with more than 18 years of experience conducting research and providing political advice particularly on human rights, science, bioethics, future generations, gender equality and education. Currently in charge of the social and human sciences program for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNESCO, leading the implementation strategy of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and conducting research and policy advice to countries. Involved in major discussions on ethics, gender, human rights, technologies, neurorights and education.
The NGO IGUAL aims to implement social advocacy actions, cultural, politics, legal and communicational for defense, recognition and promotion of the rights of the population with diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and other social groups that are affected in the exercise of their rights, to contribute to a society with equality, equity, Justice, social responsability, free from discrimination and violence in the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
We are a group formed mainly by law operators, with the participation of professionals and students from other areas, no restrictions, since our work is multidisciplinary. All our members have a common goal, what is fighting for the dignity of the LGBTI population, in the pursuit of their broader rights and in the fight against homophobia and transphobia. The objective of GADvS is to act through the law in favor of sexual and gender minorities, combating discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Brazil and Latin America.
DeFEMde was created in early 2016 at the initiative of a group of Brazilian feminist lawyers, with the aim of combating discrimination against women in the legal field, in their various careers. Since graduation, we have noticed that the application of law and legal relationships develop in a misogynistic and sexist way. Thus, not feeling represented and verifying that the Law did not encompass the gaze of women in their various forms, DeFEMde was created.
Fundación Iguales was born on 6 June 2011, thanks to the work of Pablo Simonetti, Larraín and Antonio Bascuñán, who met with the idea of creating an institution that would work towards equal rights and non-discrimination of sexual diversity. For more than 10 years have influenced relevant legislative advances for sexual and gender diversity such as the Anti-Discrimination Law, Civil Union Agreement, Gender Identity Law, reform of the Adoption Law, Equal Marriage and General Education Law.
OTD was born in 2015, within Chilean transfeminist activism. Since then they have been working for the rights of the transgender community in Chile and the region through different lines of action.: like psychological care, Legal support in cases of discrimination and violence, Political Advocacy, Trans Health, Social help, Trans community development, Communication Actions, Education and training.
Diversas Incorrectas was born from the dream of three women to make structural changes in the sexist state of affairs that we face daily in Colombia.. Given the lack of visibility and the different problems that women experience, specifically lesbians, bisexual and transgender, These three women question themselves in order to confront a patriarchal culture, from feminism, inclusion and empowerment.
The Group of Action and Support for Trans People Foundation - GOES, is a social organization that works for the defense and vindication of human rights and full citizenship of people with trans life experiences and their support networks in Colombia, especially in the city of Bogotá.
Work for the strengthening of social and political subjects that contribute to the construction of peace in Colombia from a human rights perspective. Work holistically for sexual and reproductive rights, for the rights of the LGBTI community and for the rights of women.
Founded in 2004, Colombia Diversa is the leading human rights defense organization for LGBT people in Colombia.. His work focuses on three main areas: 1. Promote and defend the human and legal rights of LGBT people in Colombia. 2. Work to positively transform perceptions about LGBT people in Colombia. 3. The promotion of the organization and political impact of the LGBT community in Colombia.
Dejusticia is a center for legal and social studies located in Bogotá, Colombia, dedicated to strengthening the rule of law and promoting human rights in Colombia and the Global South. As an action research center, our goal is to promote social change by conducting rigorous studies and solid proposals for public policies, conducting advocacy campaigns in high impact forums, public interest litigation and designing and delivering educational and training programs.
Experienced professional with more than 9 years of teaching at the university level, 9 years of experience in project management and 20 years as an LGBTI activist. His experience lies in the social sciences, particularly in data, human rights and education. He has developed various consultancies and has exceptional skills in reviewing information for reports and investigations., work with vulnerable groups, technological solutions for work development and team leadership. His achievements include publications that provide visibility to vulnerable groups and support for the creation of public policies., rules and legislation.
Lawyer from the University of Costa Rica. He was legal advisor in the Legal Directorate of the Presidency of the Republic and was part of the team that prepared the request for advisory opinion OC-24/17 before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He was Presidential Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ Population Affairs and currently works as a litigator and activist in Costa Rica. He is founder of the Alliance for Inclusive Education and the Museum of Identity and Pride.
Since the year 2017 The Pakta Foundation has been working for access to the right to identity of the LGBTIQ+ population in Ecuador. From strategic litigation actions, We have participated and been relevant actors so that the Constitutional Court of Ecuador recognized the self-perceived gender identity of trans people in 2017 and the family identity of same-sex couples in 2018. Since the year 2018 Pakta began to promote the processes for the recognition of Equal Marriage, that its result materialized in June 2019.
She is a lawyer from the “José Simeón Cañas” Central American University and has worked as an activist in favor of sexual diversity., politics, religious and cultural in El Salvador. She is currently Executive Director of the Family and Friends Foundation for Sexual Diversity of El Salvador.. He has litigated important cases on gender identity recognition., among them the case of Karla Avelar, which reached the Supreme Court of Justice and later the IAHRS.
Lambda Association is a non-governmental organization whose main focus is the defense and protection of the human rights of LGBTIQA+ people in Guatemala and the Latin American region.. Since our foundation in 2010, we have worked on at least four focus areas: access to justice, strategic litigation, human mobility and political impact, carrying out and executing projects in order to achieve a more inclusive and respectful for LGBTIQA+ people. Throughout our history and experience we have achieved regional alliances, generated pioneering research documents on violence and other actions of great relevance in improving the rights of LGBTIQA+ people in the country.
Cattrachas is a lesbian feminist organization dedicated to defending the Human Rights of LGBTI people in Honduras.. It was founded in the year 2000 as a response to the context of violence exercised against diverse sex-gender people. The Media Monitoring Center is the main source of all the work carried out by Cattrachas. As a collection tool, documentation and information analysis SIMMAL is used, system that allows the transversal and differentiated study of different strategic lines. Posteriorly, the Monitoring Center transfers reports to the Legal Area, which serve as evidence to support cases of national and international strategic litigation.. Both litigation cases, such as the reports prepared by the Monitoring Center, They are part of the strategy to achieve progress in favor of sex-gender diverse people in Honduras; y, They serve as a basis for the production of knowledge through publications on the subject..
EQUIS Justice for Women is a feminist organization that since 2011 seeks to transform institutions, laws and public policies to improve access to justice for all women in Mexico. We work for comprehensive justice that takes into account the intersections between gender and other categories such as: race, ethnicity, class, disability, migratory status, gender-gender identity, sexual preference, among other.
Letra S, Page, Culture and Daily Life, AC is a non-profit civil organization dedicated to the dissemination of information on issues related to the Health trinomial., Sexuality and Society, particularly with issues of sexual diversity, the gender, The hiv, sexually transmitted infections and sexual and reproductive rights.
The Trans Youth Network of Mexico, through the affective as radical and transformative politics, collectively weave support networks, reflection and defense of Human Rights against violence, stigma and discrimination due to prejudice.
Amicus is a civil society organization based in León, Guanajuato, that since 2015 works every day to defend and promote the rights of LGBT people + mexican, with the aim of contributing to the construction of an inclusive Guanajuato and Mexico without discrimination through the use of human rights as a tool to achieve social change.
Human rights lawyer specializing in gender perspective. Experience in defense and strategic litigation dealing with decision makers and technical experts. She currently works in the General Unit of Scientific Knowledge and Human Rights in Interculturality of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico and is Co-founder of the Feminist Circle of Legal Analysis.
The Foundation is a non-profit organization, which arises from the need to accompany legal initiatives for claims of rights, by focusing on generating positive social change towards respect for human rights, especially lesbian rights, application, bisexual, trans, intersex y queer. The idea arises from the great challenge encountered by a group of lawyers who began the process of legalizing same-sex marriage, facing a national debate on rights that had never taken place in Panama.
Promsex is a feminist non-governmental organization that, through advocacy, knowledge generation and alliances, helps people decide on their sexuality and reproduction with autonomy, dignity, justice and equality. Promsex inspires feminist leadership at the local level, national and regional, strengthened its technical recognition and capacity for innovation and strengthened inclusive alliances for public political advocacy on Sexual and Reproductive Rights.
Lawyer from the National University of San Agustín, with a Postgraduate Degree in Procedural Law and Master's studies in human rights and democratization from the Global Campus of Human Rights, National University of San Martin, Argentina. Legal advisor for diversity groups, litigant for the recognition of the right to identity and human rights of vulnerable populations.
Associate professor at the University of the Pacific. He has a master's degree in Law (LL.M.) por Harvard Law School (United States) and lawyer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has served as a senior specialist in the Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington., D.C. (United States). His current areas of research are hate speech within the framework of the right to freedom of expression and the legal regulation of sexuality., especially focused on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Female transsexual activist, She is the daughter of Andean peasants, great-granddaughter of an Afro-Peruvian woman, and educator and defender of the rights of trans people in Peru. She has been a candidate twice for the Congress of the Republic.. She studied law at the National University of San Luis Gonzaga but the institution does not recognize her gender identity, which is why she has not been able to process her university degree..
Dominican lawyer specialized in Public International Law, International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law. Throughout my academic and professional career, I have focused on using international law and its institutions to advance the recognition of the rights of people and, in particular, LGBTI people. He has worked at the International Criminal Court, the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and in the LGBTI Rapporteurship of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is a non-profit organization that works to realize Robert Kennedy's dream of a peaceful and just world.. The core programs of the RFK center focus on the power of the individual, working through alliances and organizations, to generate changes.
Synergy – Human Rights Initiatives envisions a world in which all people enjoy all their human rights, free from violence and discrimination. To achieve this reality, our work seeks to protect and promote the human rights of all people, especially those whose rights are most frequently and atrociously violated.
Fanny C. Gómez-Lugo is a queer feminist, Venezuelan lawyer, with more than sixteen years of experience in advocacy, litigation, movement development and teaching in the areas of international human rights law, reproductive rights, sexual rights, and rights of LGBTQI+ people. She is Director of Research and Advocacy at WEC, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law School and independent expert on US asylum cases for LGBTQI+ people.
Lawyer and Master in Gender Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She has worked as a researcher for the law group, gender and sexuality (Hurry up) from the same university and in the legal advocacy team of the NGO Promsex. She is currently the Technical Secretary of the LGBTI Litigators Network of the Americas and the LGBTI Network Without Violence..
Graduated in the degree process from the Faculty of Law of the Externado de Colombia University, with research experience, quarrel and accident (political and legal) in national and international Human Rights bodies, specifically regarding the protection and guarantee of rights of LGBTIQ+ people
They seek to actively defend and promote the supremacy of law; combat impunity in all its forms; ensure fair and equitable trials; act to strengthen the security and independence of human rights defenders; offer continuous training to legal professionals; strengthen the capacities of justice actors and members of civil society.
Human Rights Watch is a non-governmental, non-profit human rights organization, made up of approximately 400 members located all over the world. Its staff is made up of human rights professionals, including experts from the countries in which they operate, lawyers, journalists and academics of various origins and nationalities. Founded in 1978, Human Rights Watch is recognized for its accurate investigation of the events, impartial reporting, effective use of the media, and the defense of objectives, often, in partnership with local human rights groups.
Liliana was born in Caracas, She is the daughter of lesbian mothers
In it 2012 The Inter-American Court condemned the state of Chile for violating the rights of Karen Atala Riffo and her daughters
