Please find attached a recent ICJ document on the Inter-American Human Rights System with refrences to human rights violations on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Inter-America-regional reference violations-Publications-2007 (full text, PDF)
The submission was co-authored by Global Rights, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ( IGLHRC), the ICJ, Mullabi – Espacio Latinamericano de Sexualidades y Derechos and others.
The authors suggest that in the text, the words “gender identity and expression” are added after the word “gender”.
The text of the submission is available in both Spanish and English and it is the last contribution in this document.
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