PBI-Honduras accompanies LGTBI+ march on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

Published by Brent Patterson on June 6, 2024June 6, 2024

PBI-Honduras has posted:

“Last Friday [May 17] we accompanied the LGTBI+ march in the framework of the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia.

From PBI we show concern for the violence and discrimination that affect the day to day life of LGTBI+ people and we remember the importance of complying with the measures of the IACHR Vicky Hernandez sentence.

Likewise, we applaud the work of Somos-CDC and Asociación LGTB Arcoiris de Honduras for the defense and acquisition of the rights of LGBTI+ people in Honduras.”

The Spanish news agency EFE has reported: “According to the Honduran organization Cattrachas, around 505 members of the LGBTIQ+ community have died violently in Honduras between 2009 and so far in 2024. Of the total number of deaths, 283 were gay men, 149 trans people and 73 lesbian women, and only 123 of the cases have been prosecuted.”

Expediente Público adds: “Dany Montesinos, coordinator of the Kukulkán Association, told Expediente Público that one of the demands of the LGTBIQ+ community is that the Honduran government faithfully comply with the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) on a series of reparation measures to Honduras for the murder of trans leader Vicky Hernández. the night of the coup d’état in 2009.”

That article also notes: “The Gender Identity Law continues to be an unfulfilled promise during the government of President Xiomara Castro, according to the organizations gathered on May 17, who in posters demanded the demand for it. Grecia O’Hara, a Honduran trans woman and human rights defender, told Expediente Público that there were expectations that the law would be passed quickly, especially because of Vicky Hernández’s sentencing, but that there was ‘a lot of lack of knowledge and documentation for the state.’”

El Pulso further noted on May 17^th: “The report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on the situation of human rights in Honduras, published this year and delivered this week to the authorities of the State of Honduras by the IACHR Commissioner Rapporteur for Honduras, Andrea Pochak, and the Secretary General of the IACHR, Tania Reneaum, records a high rate of violence against the LGTBI+ population in the country. with a vast majority of these cases going unpunished.”

The PBI-Honduras Project has accompanied Somos-CDC since January 2022 and Arcoiris since July 2015.

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