* Honduras: Months after issuing a plea to investigate the murder of Honduran LGBT rights activist Cynthia Nicole, Human Rights Watch released a report condemning the country’s “epidemic of violence against transgender people.”* Nicaragua: Nearly 500 women protested outside the Nicaraguan Supreme Court while demanding a change the country’s harsh ban on all forms of abortion.
* Uruguay: Hannah Packer- Uruguay’s version of Florence Nightingale- was posthumously honored for her humanitarian efforts by her native England.
* Peru: At least 44 inmates escaped from a remote Peruvian prison after ambushing a pair of guards.
Image- ABC News (“Second Prize in the Portraits Stories category of the 2009 World Press Photo contest went to Spanish photographer Pep Bonet of Noor, for a shot of a transsexual sex worker in Honduras in 2008.”)
Online Sources- BBC News, The Northern Echo, LAHT, The Latin Americanist, Human Rights Watch
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