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PGA Calls Upon the Congress of Peru to Defend the Legal Protections on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Contained in Legislative Decree Number 1323

Legislative Decree No. 1323 incorporates into the Peruvian Criminal Code sexual orientation and gender identity as expressly prohibited categories of discrimination and as aggravating circumstances in crimes.

Seminar on “Sharing Experiences among Parliamentarians to Advance Equality and Non-Discrimination on the basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Latin America and the Caribbean”

PGA organized a Seminar to Advance Equality and Non-Discrimination on the basis of SOGI on March 9-10, 2017 in Costa Rica.

Field Mission to follow up on Project of General Law on Equality and Non-Discrimination, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

The meeting brought together representatives from the Executive Legal Counsel’s office, the Human Rights Unit of the Attorney General, and the Defensoría del Pueblo, as well as LGBTI activists and Dominican legislators.

Parliamentary Delegation to Belize on Human Rights, Equality and Non-Discrimination

Parliamentary Delegation to Belize City and Belmopan, Belize from November 9 to November 12, 2016.

A Triumph for Human Rights of LGBTI people in Belize and the Caribbean: Section 53 of the Criminal Code in Belize is ruled Unconstitutional

PGA commends the decision of the Supreme Court of Belize in ruling Section 53 of the Criminal Code, which criminalized consenting intercourse between adults of the same sex, unconstitutional.

Strategy Session on the Role of Parliamentarians in Promoting Non-Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

PGA convened a Strategy Session on the Role of Parliamentarians in Promoting Non-Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity in the sidelines of its Annual Parliamentary Forum 2015.

Salvadorian PGA Members Successfully Push Reform to Penal Code Increasing Sanctions on Hate Crimes, Including on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador approved a reform to the Penal Code increasing sanctions against murders and threats motivated by hate.

Parliamentary Delegation on Equality and Non-Discrimination to San Salvador

PGA Members, Dip. Berta Sanseverino (Uruguay), Dip. Manuel Garrido (Argentina), and Dip. Tucapel Jiménez (Chile), along with PGA program staff, Mónica Adame and Romina Morello, conducted a field mission to El Salvador.