Notes on Gender
Gender identity and migration in South Africa: a layered experience
South Africa carries an additional appeal for African LGBTQIA+ individuals seeking to flee victimisation and criminalisation in their home countries. Due to the provisions of its progressive post-apartheid constitution, South Africa has explicitly recognised persecution based on sexuality and gender identity as legitimate grounds for asylum since 1998.
Read MoreTrafficked migrant and refugee women in Latin America: State responses and challenges
Approximately 8 million people have left Venezuela and about 36% (2,811,570) of them are in Colombia, the main receiving country of the Venezuelan migrant population in the region.
Read MoreBorders, forced migration and differential approaches
The articles and blogs in this new edition of the Newsletter highlight just some of the impacts that borders can have on the lives of individuals and communities.
Read MoreSentiido: good journalism at the service of diversity
This organization, which began as a degree project and is now a benchmark in the field, has been using creativity and the tools of good journalism for 12 years in an effort to reduce prejudice against LGBTIQ people.
Read MoreA feminist commitment from northern Cauca
Since 2009, the Corporation for the Promotion of Political Culture has come to the conclusion that changing the world is possible, and it is not done through extraordinary actions, but through the greatness that lies in those who inhabit the territory being able to feel good, speak out loud, and do so without fear.
Read MoreBeing a feminist organization is quite a challenge in Riohacha
The work for nonviolence and gender equality in Riohacha (La Guajira), led by a group of women from this city, went from being a citizen campaign to becoming the Evas y Adanes Association, an organization that is committed to education and strategic communications to transform the machismo typical of La Guajira into inclusion and equality.
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