The violence and horror of the murders, where transgender people were burned alive, suffocated and murdered, are catalogued by the project which also has the full list of all those killed this year.
TMM Update Trans Day of Remembrance 2020
US: HRC Mourns Angel Unique, Black Trans Woman Killed in Memphis, Tenn.
Belize: Man Found Guilty Of San Pedro Murder
El Salvador: Police Officers Convicted for Transgender Murder
Australia: Why does South Australia still have a ‘gay panic’ defence?
US: Inside the surprising challenge to ban gay panic defense in Colorado
Colombia: Thousands of people cry out against violence against trans people in Bogotá
UK: Reading attack: further tributes to victims as police question suspect
US: HRC Mourns Selena Reyes-Hernandez, Trans Woman Killed in Chicago
HRC is heartbroken to learn of the death of Selena Reyes-Hernandez, a 37-year-old transgender woman shot to death in Chicago on May 31. Her death is believed to be at least the 16th known violent death of a transgender or gender non-conforming person this year in the U.S. HRC has tracked eight such deaths from May 3rd to June 9th, constituting the greatest number of deaths we have recorded in this amount of time.
UN experts condemn modern-day racial terror lynchings in US and call for systemic reform and justice
A group of independent UN rights experts today called on the United States Government to take decisive action to address systemic racism and racial bias in the country’s criminal justice system by launching independent investigations and ensuring accountability in all cases of excessive use of force by police. They also issued a statement regarding the nationwide protests against racial injustice.
Australia: SA led the way for many reforms, so why is 'gay panic' still a defence?
South Australia has a reputation as a progressive state based on several milestones in its political history. It was the first to grant parliamentary voting rights to women, in 1894. It was also first to decriminalise homosexuality, and was at the forefront of the push for Aboriginal land rights during the 1970s. But a legal loophole allowing murder charges to be downgraded has remained