What are the data managed by the Cattrachas Lesbian Network on violence against LGBTI+ people included since the year 2017 until the year 2022 and what has been the institutional response capacity of the State to investigate, judge and punish these cases?
The Observatory of Violent Deaths of LGBTI People of the Monitoring and Media Center of the Cattrachas Lesbian Network recorded, between 2017 y 2022, 197 violent deaths: 116 gays, 38 lesbians and 43 trans people. He also recorded the disappearance of 3 LGBTI people: 1 gay and 2 lesbians.
Only 57 cases have been judicialized and have only been issued 14 conviction sentences. Nevertheless, The generic aggravating circumstance in criminal matters for discrimination based on sexual orientation has not been applied to any of them., gender identity and/or expression, Therefore, the permanence of a 93% of impunity.
At Cattrachas we have remained vigilant so that we are repeated and guaranteed, without any reason of discrimination, the right to access to justice for all LGBTI people, For this reason, we have promoted actions to strengthen the institutional response of the State, both investigative and preventive in nature through evidence-based advocacy. He 13 March 2023, within the framework of compliance with the operative point 17 of the sentence in the case of Vicky Hernández and Others Vs. Honduras, Cattrachas, through the evidence of the Observatory of Violent Deaths of LGBTI People, handed over to the Attorney General's Office and the Security Secretariat 477 files of deaths and missing LGBTI persons, since the year 1994 until March 2023. We did it with the objective of strengthening the capacities of the State to contribute to eradicating violence against LGTBI people in Honduras..
It is not only intended to contribute to the State fulfilling its obligation to investigate human rights violations., also to strengthen state capacities to prevent violence and discrimination motivated by prejudice.
What impact has the study and public follow-up of the case of Vicky Hernández had in the region?, a trans woman murdered in the context of widespread political violence against trans people in 2009?
In 2021 The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned the State of Honduras for the first violent death during the Coup d'état of the year 2009, related to the transfemicide of Vicky Hernández, a trans woman defender of human rights of LGBTQ people.
The ruling handed down by the Inter-American Court develops a set of jurisprudential guidelines that are important for the inter-American human rights system., Therefore, Vicky continues to be a precedent at the national and regional level for the full recognition of the rights and freedoms of LGBTI people..
One of the main impacts at the national level and in Latin America and the Caribbean is the compliance with operative paragraph number 16 of the sentence, concerning the creation of the investigation and administration of justice protocol during criminal proceedings for cases of LGBTI people who are victims of violence, whose main objective is for public officials to guarantee timely and effective investigations that allow identifying, judge and punish all violence based on sexual orientation, diverse gender identity and/or expression.
Considering also the need to contribute to the institutional response of the States, and access to justice with a differentiated approach under the principle of due diligence, Vicky's case has also promoted parallel work in the construction of a regional protocol for investigating violent deaths of LGBTIQ+ people.
This is why Vicky allows both in Honduras and in the countries of the region to promote the exercise of conventionality control of all international commitments derived from the ruling..
