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Discrimination on the basis of badual orientation is the second most common reason for denunciation in Argentina and the first one for attacks on the Internet, the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI) reported on the celebration of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.

"The complaint statistics in this body indicate that in 2018, badual diversity (which includes gender identity and badual orientation) was the second most frequently cited reason (13.4% ) after the handicap (20,7).", informed sources of INADI.

In addition, they added that "In the first quarter of 2019, this is what has generated the most complaints on the Internet".

The Argentinian Homobadual Community (AMP), in turn, reported receiving 600,000 discrimination complaints in the past year and these figures reflected a trend "increasing".

"There has been a very strong increase in hate speech and a very important and very worrying increase has been observed in cases of death and transvestites that have increased alarmingly in the country", said Pedro Paradiso Sottile, President of the CHA, where they have already accounted for 30 transvesticides so far this year.

In all cases, INADI and CHA coincided to emphasize the importance of Argentine legislation.

"Our country has made progress in terms of recognizing the rights of people belonging to the LGBTI collective such as the law on the equality of marriages and the law on gender identity", they said in the INADI.

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This Friday, in more than 130 countries, is recognized May 17 as "International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia", reminiscent of what happened in 1990 when the World Organization Health (WHO) had decided to remove homobaduality from its roots. list of mental disorders and recognize it as a natural variation of human baduality.

Overall, the EFE agency noted that the LGTBI group's situation progressed step by step in the fight for their rights, although murders, imprisonments, badaults and humiliations are still part of their daily lives in different parts of the world. .
Brazil, for example, is the country in the world where more crimes are committed against the collective, where "one of its members dies violently every 20 hours".

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In Africa, more than 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa where legislation punishes homobaduality and persecutes the LGTBI community, "crimes against nature" – as they call them – are punishable by prison terms: from life imprisonment in Uganda or Tanzania to 25 years in prison in Ghana.

In addition, it governs the death penalty under Sharia (Islamic law) in Mauritania, Sudan, northern Nigeria and southern Somalia, according to Amnesty International.

By contrast, in most Middle Eastern countries, homobadual bad is punished and, in some cases, sentenced to death, as in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen.