Reconocimiento de los derechos de las personas LGBTI en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos

Abstract

This research is framed in the analysis of the LGBTI community, and its historical struggle, which has led to progress towards the recognition of several rights in the framework of the Inter-American Human Rights System. For decades the LGBTI community has been subjected to different acts of discrimination and violations of their human rights, due to the different stigmas or prejudices that have persisted in societies. The present investigation will first identify the progress and challenges that allowed the recognition of the rights of LGBTI community, in addition to a specific analysis of the progressiveness of the right to equality and non-discrimination of LGBTI persons, and the jurisprudential line of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, specifically in cases of discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and gender expression.

Finally, we will review the current situation of the rights of LGBTI persons in the Inter American Human Rights System, which represents a before and after in the recognition of the rights of equality and non-discrimination of the LGBTI community.