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In El Salvador advocacy for LGBT rights and opening spaces to discuss this issue
from a Human Rights perspective is particularly important given the highly
conservative context of the country, this is not a topic that is frequently discussed in
public. Our goal as a program is to continue this work every year, opening
opportunities for dialogue between different actors in the public sphere, for
example by hosting open events such as forums to bring attention to the situation of
discrimination against LGBT persons in El Salvador with the main goal of building
solutions together with the Salvadoran people.
Another initiative that we are pushing this year is the use of state mechanisms for
the protection of Human Rights. Together with Bessy Rios, a human rights lawyer
and activist and Fundacion de la Mano Contigo Cristosal is promoting an alliance
of LGBT organizations that usually work separately to come together and access the
judicial system demanding the correct interpretation of the term equality that
sadly in El Salvador is still an ambiguous term for many that may or may not include
LGBT persons.
Before the end of 2014, specifically in the eve of international human rights day,
Cristosal and the LGBT movement of El Salvador will present to the highest court in
the country, the constitutional chamber, three claims against the State for the
implicit promotion of discrimination against LGBT persons currently present in
Salvadoran law. This will be the first time in the last decade that the LGBT
organizations have come together to present an action of this nature, in a way
following a world trend of searching from equality through the courtrooms.