ADDED ON: 01/01/2021
A Year of Intersex Victories
While 2020 has been a rough year for just about everyone, 2020 has also been a year of many intersex victories and of the overall global advancement of intersex rights. The term…
Ecuador
ADDED ON: 01/22/2020
Ecuador’s LGBT+ community seen suffering deadliest year in a decade
Last year was the deadliest in at least a decade for gay and transgender people in Ecuador, campaigners have said, citing a possible backlash against new laws enshrining LGBT+ rights. There were…
ADDED ON: 11/30/2019
Latin American Human Rights Lawyers Join Forces for LGBT Rights
In a gathering in Bogota, Colombia on Nov. 19, 40 human rights lawyers from across Latin America launched an innovative “Red Litigio LGBT” – an LGBT Litigation Network – in order to…
ADDED ON: 07/21/2019
Couple celebrate first same-sex wedding in conservative Ecuador
Alexandra Chavez and Michelle Aviles have made history in conservative Ecuador by becoming the first couple to take advantage of a new law allowing same-sex marriage. Chavez, 41, and Aviles, 23, were…
ADDED ON: 07/16/2019
Same-Sex Marriage Is Legal in Ecuador, but Will All Ecuadorians Accept It?
Ecuador’s highest court ruled last month that the country’s prohibition on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. The 5-4 verdict was a victory for LGBT activists in the heavily Catholic country, but it is…
ADDED ON: 07/10/2019
The sentences of the Constitutional Court on equal marriage are final and can not be appealed in Ecuador
"The judgments and the orders of the Constitutional Court shall have the character of final and unappealable." This textual citation is article 440 of the Constitution of Montecristi and is applicable to…
ADDED ON: 07/01/2019
The LGBTQ artists using music as resistance in Latin America
Over the last decade, several openly queer musicians have emerged in Latin America. They use their music to combat hate. As the region has seen a rise of extreme right-wing beliefs, progress…
ADDED ON: 06/23/2019
Struggle among progress as countries restrict LGBTQ rights
The world has been transformed in many ways in the 50 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn, with major shifts in the past decade alone on every continent. Same-sex marriage…
ADDED ON: 06/15/2019
AP Explains: The rocky rise of LGBT rights in Latin America
Despite a dark past, today many LGBT citizens in Latin America are enjoying the right to marry, choose their gender identity and adopt children. But while laws in several of the region’s…
ADDED ON: 06/14/2019
Ecuador approves same-sex marriage as LGBT+ groups hail landmark week
Ecuador’s decision to allow same-sex marriage has topped a landmark week for LGBT+ rights after Botswana decriminalised gay sex and Bhutan took the first steps to do so, said campaigners marking the…
ADDED ON: 01/21/2019
Court Decisions on LGBT Rights Echo ‘A Wild Wish’
More than two centuries ago Mary Wollstonecraft laid the foundations for feminist thought with a simple premise: lack of equal opportunity diminished individual self-worth and hobbled social progress. In A Vindication of the…
ADDED ON: 07/09/2018
Ecuador Judges Rule Against Same-Sex Marriage Ban
Two judges of an Ecuadorian court have ruled against that nation’s ban on same-sex marriage. The pair of judges sit on the Family, Women, Children and Adolescents Court in Cuenca, Ecuador. The…
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