The murder of one of Honduras’ leading transgendered activists has “terrified” that community according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).Cynthia Nicole was a well-known activist who was the head of a local transgendered group for about fourteen years. She was killed by unknown assailants last Friday in a drive-by shooting. “The authorities need to find and prosecute the perpetrators of this and previous attacks against the trans community,” said an HRW researcher in the article which also alluded to a rise in violence against transgendered Hondurans.
Unfortunately, serious violence against Honduras’ LGBT is nothing new; according to a March 2008 State Department report on Honduras:
“Representatives of sexual diversity rights NGOs asserted that their members were killed, beaten, and subjected to other mistreatment by security authorities…Image- worldflags.es
"Sexual diversity rights groups asserted that security forces, government agencies, and private employers engaged in anti-gay discriminatory hiring practices…
"In March the secretary general of the Ministry of Governance and Justice commented publicly that the government denied registration to gay rights advocacy NGOs because their stated purposes did not comport with "good custom"…
"On March 18, police beat and detained Donny Reyes, the treasurer of the Lesbian-Gay Rainbow Association of Comayaguela.
"Police then reportedly put Reyes in a jail cell with 57 gang members who raped and beat him. Reyes filed a formal complaint and was subsequently harassed by police."
Online Sources- Human Rights Watch, PinkNews.co.uk, SheWired.com
No comments:
Post a Comment