{"id":3920,"date":"2020-08-13T21:01:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T21:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:01:37","slug":"lgbttti-coalition-celebrates-closure-of-another-oas-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/lgbttti-coalition-celebrates-closure-of-another-oas-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTTTI Coalition celebrates closing of another OAS general assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Medell\u00edn, Colombia<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>July 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Coalition<\/strong>\u00a0of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Transsexual, Transgender, Transvestite and Intersex (LGBTTTI) of<br \/>\nLatin America and the Caribbean working within the framework of the Organization of American States<br \/>\n(OAS) was present at the 49th regular session of the General Assembly, which took place on<br \/>\nin Medellin, Colombia, on 27-28 June 2019. As in previous years, we also participate<br \/>\nat the Pre-General Assembly Dialogue with heads of delegation and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.<br \/>\nthe OAS, among other actors, through two coalitions, one of LGBTI people and the other - formed<br \/>\nfor the first time this year - of sex workers.<\/p>\n<p>As a Coalition, we welcome the important advances in human rights, guidance<br \/>\nsexuality, gender identity, gender expression and sexual characteristics that took the form of<br \/>\nthis General Assembly, including the adoption for the eleventh time of the resolution on<br \/>\nhuman rights of LGBTI people - with more inclusive language than in previous years -, the<br \/>\nre-election of Commissioners Arosemena and Macaulay and the election of Julissa Mantilla, in spite of the<br \/>\nattempts by anti-rights groups to delegitimise their candidacies. We also reject the<br \/>\nattempt to close the space for civil society, led by the Colombian government in the context of the<br \/>\nof the OAS General Assembly and we call on the OAS to avoid such situations to<br \/>\nfuture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medell\u00ed\u00adn, Colombia Julio de 2019 La\u00a0Coalici\u00f3n\u00a0de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales, Trans, Transexuales, Travestis e Intersex (LGBTTTI) de Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe que trabajan en el marco de la Organizaci\u00f3n de los Estados Americanos (OEA) estuvo presente en el 49\u00ba per\u00ed\u00adodo ordinario de sesiones de la Asamblea General, que tuvo lugar en Medell\u00ed\u00adn, Colombia, el 27 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}