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Gender and sexual diversity

Defenders of women’s rights and the rights of the LGBTI community work to achieve positive change in their communities. In addition to the challenges faced by their male or cis-gender colleagues, they face additional obstacles and threats, as they question the status quo through their work, and defy accepted norms, traditions, perceptions and stereotypes about femininity or masculinity, sexual orientation and their role and status in society. Honduras is also one of the countries in the region where sexual and reproductive rights are most restricted and, therefore, defenders of these rights are at greater risk. As a result, women are subjected to threats focused on gender inequality, sexual violence or aggressions against their families; and people from the LGBTI community suffer aggressions linked to gender identity, including physical, psychological and sexual violence.

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Every day more women all over the world are taking action to promote equality, peace and justice. It is these women who, whether they mean to or not, are transforming traditional gender roles and power structures, by dedicating their lives to defending fundamental human rights. More and more, these extraordinary women are identifying themselves as human rights defenders. In general, it is said that women are doubly vulnerable, for being women and for defending human rights, however, they are strengthened by their determination to create positive change in our societies.

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The psychosocial focus in the protection of women human rights defenders

Being a human rights defender is a job that implies a lot of risk, often in contexts of socio-political violence and an increase in criminalisation. The stress and constant concerns that this work brings with it generates a series of impacts on both physical and emotional levels that do not only attack the human rights defender personally, but also weaken their collective organisational processes of resistance.

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