LGTBI

Thematic Reports

IACHR Reports on other subjects which make reference to the rights of LGTBI persons:

• Second Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas (2011)
  • III. Especially Exposed Groups of Human Rights Defenders         
    • F. Defenders of Lesbian, gay, trans, bisexual and intersex (LGTBI) persons
      (pp. 148., para. 325 and ff.)
• Legal Standards Related to Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System: Development and Application (2011)
  • II. Discrimination against Women
    • A. Introduction
      1. Decisions on the Merits of the IACHR    
      Discrimination on the Basis of Gender: the Content of State Obligations (para. 134 and ff.)
    • B. Analysis of judgments that apply the legal standards of the Inter-American human rights system
      Sexual Rights (para. 177 and ff. Reference to decisions by domestic courts in Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay related to the recognition of the right not to be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity)
• Juvenile Justice and Human Rights in the Americas (2011)
  • II. The Juvenile Justice System
    • E. General Principles of the Juvenile Justice System
      4. The Principle of Equality and Non-Discrimination (para. 121)
• Annual Report of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression 2010
  • Chapter II. Evaluation of the State of Freedom of Expression in the Hemisphere         
    • B. Evaluation of the state of freedom of expression in the Member States
      10. Cuba
            4. Criminalization of Protest (para. 194)
• The Inter-American Legal Framework regarding the Right to Freedom of Expression (2009)
  • Inter-American Legal Framework Regarding the Right to Freedom of Expression
    • C. Types of speech protected by freedom of expression           
      2. Types of speech protected according to content       
            b. Specially protected speech
                  iii. Speech that expresses essential elements of personal identity or dignity (para. 56)
• Access to Justice for Women Victims of Violence in the Americas (2007)
  • III. Public Efforts to Comply with the Due Diligence Obligation in Response to Acts OF Violence against Women     
    • B. The adoption of criminal and civil laws about violence and discrimination against women(para. 271).
• Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas (2006)
  VII. Precautionary Measures
  • B. Precautionary measures decreed from January 2002 to December 2005 to protect persons involved in activities of human rights defense (para. 252)
• Annual Report of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression (2004)
  • Chapter VII. Hate Speech and the American Convention on Human Rights