PARAGUAY | 20100720225100| Equipo de comunicacion ILGA -LAC
Gay activists in Paraguay say they'll legalize gay marriage next.

BELIZE | 20100615040100| ILGA-LAC equipo de comunicacion
The coalition of LGBTTTI organizations from 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries working within the Organization of American States (OAS) supports the approval of the third resolution on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.

BRAZIL | 20100609113800|
This Wednesday, thousands of homosexuals participated to a pride event in Brazillia city centre to ask for gay marriage and a law against discrimination and homophobia.

BRAZIL | 20100606040200| ILGA
"As the world commemorates International Day of Action for Women’s Health today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global human rights organization, called on the Congress to defeat a draft bill that grants absolute protection for the “unborn.” The proposed measure imposes a duty on the family, society and the state to guarantee, with “absolute priority,” rights to life, health, development, honor, dignity, respect, liberty, and family to the “unborn.” The draft bill is intended to criminalize any act that intentionally causes death or harms the fetus, and any statement that “promotes” abortion, as well as the freezing, manipulation or use of the “unborn” as material for experimentation.

PARAGUAY | 20100518135600| ILGA
On April 7, 2010, a 20-year old lesbian, Norma Machado, was abducted from her home in Asunción, Paraguay by five family members and a family friend. She was dragged into a car where she was suffocated, strangled and subjected to multiple blows, resulting in severe bruising to her body. According to multiple news reports, one of her abductors was her uncle, Viviano Machado, former commander of National Police.

BOLIVIA | 20100425195915| ILGA-LAC
Bolivian President Evo Morales caused laughter to ripple through the audience at a conference on climate change on Tuesday when he suggested that eating hormone-injected chicken caused men to deviate into homosexuality, Spero News reports:

COLOMBIA | 20100305112111|
There is little information regarding the status of human rights of lesbian and bisexual women in Colombia. Difficulties related with the inexistence of state information systems or human rights organizations that include variables on the sexual orientation and gender identity of the victims, prevents the work of human rights defenders to shed some light on the real situation of this population.

COLOMBIA | 20100304180113|
In Colombia, abortion is illegal except under extreme and particular circumstances, additionally, the Government lacks any policy aimed at reducing unsafe abortions and maternal mortality.