{"id":670,"date":"2009-07-31T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qwocboston.org\/?p=670"},"modified":"2009-07-31T11:26:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:26:36","slug":"a-transgender-person-is-murdered-every-3-days-in-the-worldmostly-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"A Transgender Person is Murdered Every 3 Days in the World\u2026Mostly in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Repost from VivirLatino.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Here at VL we have covered\u00a0lots of<\/a> stories<\/a>about\u00a0violence against transgender people<\/strong>, and unfortunately many of\u00a0these cases of violence\u00a0end in death<\/strong><\/a>. What I didn\u2019t know was that\u00a0the rate<\/strong> at which transgender murders occur worldwide wasso high<\/strong>; a recent report by non-profit organization\u00a0Transgender Europe<\/a> (TGEU) shows that\u00a0a transgender person is killed every 3 days<\/strong>. And another disturbing fact is that the\u00a0majority <\/strong>of these murders are happening in Latin America<\/strong>:
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The cases have been reported from all six World regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. The majority of cases have been reported from Latin America and North America. On these continents the majority of cases have been reported from Brazil (59) and the U.S.A. (16) for 2008 and from Brazil (23), Venezuela (20), and Guatemala (10) for the first six months of 2009. Moreover, the preliminary results show a total of 11 murdered trans people reported for Colombia followed by 5 for Honduras and 4 for Mexico and Venezuela for 2008, and 6 for Mexico and 3 for Argentina, and the Dominican Republic for the first six months of 2009.<\/p>\n

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In total 91 murders of trans people were reported in 11 Latin American countries in 2008, and 73 murders of trans people in 11 Latin American countries in the first six months of 2009. The reported murders of trans people in Latin America account for 75% and 88% of the world wide reported murders of trans people in 2008 and the first six months of
2009 respectively.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The map associated with the study (image above) for 2009 to date shows the highest concentration of murders in\u00a0South America<\/strong>, particularly in\u00a0Brazil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Spain\u2019s Ambiente G\u00a0reports on another chilling statistic<\/a>:\u00a0in Peru, a gay or lesbian person is killed every 5 days.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Repost from VivirLatino.com Here at VL we have covered\u00a0lots of storiesabout\u00a0violence against transgender people, and unfortunately many of\u00a0these cases of violence\u00a0end in death. What I didn\u2019t know was that\u00a0the rate at which transgender murders occur worldwide wasso high; a recent report by non-profit organization\u00a0Transgender Europe (TGEU) shows that\u00a0a transgender person is killed every 3 days.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[444,484,586,594,1018],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gay-latin-america","tag-hate-crimses","tag-latin-america-hate-crime","tag-latino-transpeople","tag-transgender-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}