Rodriguez and their collective received digital safety training from Amet, another LGBTI+ organization that advocates at the national level. Since May, Amet has trained 60 people on issues including digital rights, risk analysis, forced recovery, fishing, outing, monitoring and revenge porn. It also includes the implementation of VPN and encrypted messaging platforms such as signals and protons.
“Something that activists were telling us (this) is very common that people take their Facebook photos and apply them to social networks, either to attack other colleges or reduce personal aspects. So it is a very interesting experience. People do not know about the exposure we have in the digital world,” Fernando Paz, which is to teach these courses.
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For Rodriguez, this device is a way to face a country that is becoming increasingly violent towards those who represent diversity.
“At the university, we have abusive language experiences in classrooms. Professors have said that they share the thinking of the sexic ideology and it disappears as it poisons the youth,” called Rodriguez.
In a way, the government has used to hide violence against the LGBTIQ+ community, lack of accounting of hatred crimes in L Salavador. In recent years, the office of the country’s Attorney General, also known as FGR, has used “murder due to social intolerance” and “murder due to murder”, which may not say this for the “general offense” (mostly, according to the government’s legend, for the murder). There is no clarity about what comes in these categories, which are not official, are not defined, and are only used publicly – not within administrative reports. Between 2023 and 2024, FGR 182 of these cases counted,
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Hit record
In front of statistical ambiguity Documentation and collection Hatred offenses have been taken by organizations. Anti-violence group, Passionist Social Service, found that 154 LGBTIQ+ people Is taken into custody During the emergency rule of Al Salvador, which began in March 2022 and has been extended 39 times to date. Subsequently, Nikola Chavez and his team saw the need to record violence cases against members of the LGBTIQ+ population.
“We always intended to start a observatory, but with the beginning of the exception, everyone knows that the police violence and military harassment have an inconsistent impact on the LGBT community. Obviously we hurt us, and I don’t know who they count to be able to believe about whom they count,” Chavez says.
