Witness History: Trans murder in Honduras - CTVC

Witness History: Trans murder in Honduras

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Produced and presented by

Mike Lanchin

TX Date

21st Feb 2024

Editor

Kristine Pommert

Broadcaster

BBC World Service

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"Really great."

(Angelita Baeyens, contributor)

In June 2009, transgender sex worker and activist Vicky Hernandez was murdered in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula.

The killers were never identified or punished. But in 2021, the Inter-American Human Rights Court found the Honduran state responsible for the crime. It ordered the government to enact new laws to prevent discrimination and violence against LGBTQ people.

Mike Lanchin hears from Claudia Spelman, a trans activist and friend of Vicky, and the American human rights lawyer Angelita Baeyens.

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