Nigeria: Defending Human Rights, Protecting against Violence, Preventing HIV/AIDS

Policymakers, donors, and implementers must place greater emphasis on the integration of services to prevent and mitigate the effects of violence into health programming and to create an enabling environment for key populations to access healthcare services and reduce their vulnerabilities to human rights violations, and therefore their risk of contracting HIV.

Caribbean Court of Justice Declares Guyana’s Cross-Dressing Law Unconstitutional

Port of Spain, Trinidad. The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled that a law in Guyana, which makes it a criminal offence for a man or a woman to appear in a public place while dressed in clothing of the opposite sex for an “improper purpose”, is unconstitutional.

Mexico: A Caravan Within the Caravan Has Arrived in Tijuana

On Sunday, a group of about 80 LGBTQ Central Americans arrived in Tijuana, the first members of a migrant caravan traveling through Mexico toward the U.S. border since October. The migrants had organized within the caravan itself, electing leaders and taking their own census within the larger group.