Option
Read more: https://bit.ly/2ZcC3vH
The government of Panama has taken an important initial step to address the discriminatory impacts of its gender-based quarantine measures on transgender people by communicating its concern to security agencies, Human Rights Watch said today. It has yet to issue guidelines to specify that transgender people may comply with quarantine measures in accordance with their gender identity, as Human Rights Watch recommended in a letter to President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen on April 23, 2020.
For more HRW reporting on Covid-19, please visit: https://www.hrw.org/tag/coronavirus
For more HRW reporting on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues, please visit:
https://www.hrw.org/topic/lgbt-rights
For more HRW reporting on Panama, please visit: https://www.hrw.org/americas/panama
Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org
Subscribe for more: https://bit.ly/2OJePrw
source
