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ECUADOR: A HIDDEN GEM FOR GAY TRAVELERS

While the laws of Ecuador are firmly support of gay rights, public displays of same-sex affectn are very rare the untry and LGBTQ+ travelers are advised to e discretn when public plac, pecially outsi of major ci where people may not have adapted to the new laws as quickly. As Ecuadorean society ntu to engage a healthy and rponsible bate on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights, is important for thori to remember that, regardls of their personal posns on the matters, Ecuador is bound to enforce rights provid for the ACHR. MEXICO CITY (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Last year was the adlit at least a for gay and transgenr people Ecuador, mpaigners have said, cg a possible backlash agast new laws enshrg LGBT+ were 16 murrs or vlent aths volvg LGBT+ people the South Amerin untry 2019, acrdg to a report released by the Ecuadorian LGBT+ rights group Silueta X group said was the hight number sce began keepg track 2010 and most of the victims were transgenr women.

Murrs of LGBT+ people also rose 1998 after homosexualy was crimalized, Rodriguez the study, rearchers monored media reports of LGBT+ aths, as well as plats lodged wh Silueta X rights expert Javier Corral said the rise killgs may signal a backlash. Dpe recent advanc for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and tersex + (LGBTQI+) rights Ecuador, such as the Constutnal Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage 2019, progrs remas to be ma on the acceptance and cln of LGBTQI+ people polics, cludg ntued hostily om public officials, a lack of rights protectns on the lol level and polil parti that lack ternal stctur signed to take LGBTQI+ voic to acunt.

Same-sex relatns are punishable unr article 338 of the penal by up to two years Algerian urt on September 3, 2020 sentenced two men to prison terms and 42 others to spend terms after mass arrts at what the police alleged was a “gay weddg.

In Febary 2021, a new penal me to effect Angola that no longer crimaliz nsensual same-sex nduct, scrappg lonial-era provisns that characterized homosexualy as “vic agast nature.

Human Rights Watch has documented anti-LGBT vlence and threats faced by gay men and trans women Antigua and Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has unrgone LGBTI sensizatn trag to better protect the rights of LGBTI people, facilated by Caribbean 2016, followg s UN Universal Perdic Review, the mister of social transformatn announced that she was willg to troduce to Cabet a remendatn to repeal the buggery laws, but as of 2021, they rema place Antigua and November 2019, the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversy and Equaly announced planned to lnch a legal challenge agast the crimalizatn of private, nsensual same-sex sexual activy. In Augt 2020, the Court of Appeal led there had not been a proper vtigatn to a vlent homophobic attack 2018 agast a group of LGBT activists, which left at least six activists jured. In January 2019, Artak (Adam) Arakelyan, 19, a queer activist, was subjected to abe and discrimatn at a ary draft board, where officers varly ed homophobic slurs to scribe him, mocked him, and threatened to out him to his father.

Belas’ 2017 Law on the Protectn of Children om Informatn Harmful to their Health and Development may be ed to rtrict dissematn of ntral or posive rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as “discredg the stutn of the fay.

The Sarajevo Open Center (SOC), a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) and women’s rights group, rmed Human Rights Watch that observed an crease onle threats agast activists around the time of the march.

In 2020, Print Bolsonaro acced the World Health Organizatn of centivizg homosexualy through s sexualy tn guil, while the Mister of Edutn nounced sexualy tn and attributed homosexualy young people to “maladjted fai.

”Print Bolsonaro and other public officials subscribe to the notn that children are beg “doctrated, ” cludg by teachers, wh so-lled “genr iology, ” a vacuo tch-all term tend to note an ill-fed gay and femist nspiracy to wreak havoc on tradnal valu. In rponse, May 2020, Bolsonaro vowed to send a bill banng “genr iology” to the Natnal Congrs, but has not yet done January 2020, the Supreme Court upheld eedom of exprsn and vated a lg by a R Janeiro judge orrg Netflix to take down a special featurg a “gay J.

Between January and June 2020, the natnal Human Rights Ombudspersons Office received 1, 134 plats of vlence, discrimatn, and other ab agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons. Article 29 of the Constutn of Bundi explicly bans same-sex Augt, Print Evariste Ndayishimye ma a televised speech which he scribed homosexualy as a “curse” and claimed that gay people were rponsible for Covid-19.

Acrdg to Cameroonian LGBT rights anizatns, at least six LGBT people were prison as of Febary 2021 on homosexualy charg, cludg transgenr women who were arrted on the basis of genr exprsn. Dpe Colombia’s strong legal protectns on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty, the human rights ombudsperson has raised ncerns about high levels of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rponse to the Covid-19 panmic, on April 8, 2020 the ernment of Bogotá tablished a genr-based quarante. ”For several months, Egyptians livg wh HIV, cludg gay men, faced obstacl to accsg HIV treatment as they feared retrievg their meditn om fever hospals, the only centers where people livg wh HIV n accs lifavg meditns, after the ernment signated them as treatment centers for Covid-19.

Between October 2019 and April 2020 alone, at least seven trans women and two gay men were murred El Salvador, wh tails the s suggtg the killers had been motivated by hatred based on the victims’ genr inty or sexual orientatn.

In spe of this law, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists succsfully held the first ever Eswati Pri event June 2018, wh hundreds marchg the streets of Mbabane support of LGBT equaly. In spe of this law, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists succsfully held the first ever “Eswati Pri” event June 2018, wh hundreds marchg the streets of Mbabane support of LGBT October 20, 2020, the Eswati High Court heard a challenge om Eswati Sexual and Genr Mori (ESGM) agast the Eswati Registrar of Compani’ refal to register ESGM as a pany.

The amendment f “aggravated homosexualy” to clu serial offenrs or persons wh a prev nvictn for homosexualy, persons who admister dgs or substanc orr to have “unlawful rnal nnectn” wh a person of the same sex, persons havg same-sex relatns wh someone unr the age of 18 or wh a person who has a disabily, or a person wh HIV havg same sex sexual relatns. The spate of killgs was, sadly, not out of the ordary: 2020, human rights ombudsperson Jordán Rodas said, at least 19 people known to be lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) were murred Guatemala. The spate of killgs was, sadly, not out of the ordary: 2020, human rights ombudsperson Jordán Rodas said at least 19 people known to be lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) were murred Guatemala.