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ARGENTINA: Report highlights human rights violations of LGBT people

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marginalization, repression and lack of public policies. Here are some of the situations faced by lesbian, gays, transvestites, transgender, transsexual and intersex people living in Argentina. The information was submitted by the report "Violation of Human Rights of Individuals Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual and Intersex (LBTTTI) in the Northwest Region of Argentina (NOA)" in the 46 th Session of the Committee on the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

is not random that the report draws attention to this group. According to the document LBTTTI population is most vulnerable to suffer human rights violations due to "sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression of real or perceived. "In addition to discrimination related to gender identity and expression, most still suffer prejudice by failing to occupation other than that related to prostitution.

" Another factor that increases vulnerability of transgender people is that in many countries, transgender people are mainly forced to work as sex workers. This is due to the severe discrimination which prevents them from getting other jobs and join the social stereotypes that suggest that transgender people should be sex workers, "he says.

According to report, in general, the country managed to move forward on human rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender). However, reveals that the same was not achieved at the provincial level.

"In recent years, the national level in Argentina, there was an improvement on the human rights of LGBT people through the law that led, among other measures, to the enactment of laws and decrees but, at the provincial level, the degree of accessibility to information about these developments is very uneven and is enhanced considerably by the general lack of information related to this topic at the municipal level, "he reveals.

Offences Code and police practices that discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, violence against women and girls systematically LBTTTI by police and teachers in schools; representation preconceptions and stereotyping of transgender people in the media, and lack of procedures to allow transsexuals to change the identity are some violations of the CEDAW articles highlighted in the report.

According to the document, there in northwestern Argentina, various codes indicating Misdemeanor the "arrests for gender identity, sexual orientation or sexual practices regulations." The Offences Code of the Province of La Rioja (Act 7062) is an example of this. According to the law where a person can be fined or detained for up to 30 days for "offenses against morality, prostitution and homosexuality scandalous."

The report aims not only to violations of Articles of the Convention, but also presents recommendations to the State to try to change this situation. These include: adoption of anti-discrimination legislation, ensuring that public authorities and institutions not engage in discriminatory actions, and inclusion of sexual diversity and gender identity as protected categories under the Law to combat discrimination.

The report was prepared by members of the organization Zero in Conduct of the province of Santiago del Estero, in collaboration with members of the International Commission of Human Rights for Gays and Lesbians (IGLHRC).

The full document can be read here:

http://www.iglhrc.org/binary-data/ATTACHMENT/file/000/000/424-1.pdf