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Our archive of resources is intended to provide a range of information and tools that Synergía and our partners have developed in the course of our work. You will also find regional human rights standards that can be applied to advocacy in the Americas and in Africa.

We hope that these resources can be used by activists and organizations to advance their own human rights advocacy and to provide examples of resources that can be adapted and applied in other contexts.

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Standards Developed by regional human rights mechanisms​

Americas

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS)

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  • Instruments and Treaties

INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS (IACHR)

  • Thematic reports 

INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (IACtHR)

  • I/A Court H.R., Gender identity, and equality and non-discrimination with regard to same-sex couples. State obligations in relation to change of name, gender identity, and rights deriving from a relationship between same-sex couples (interpretation and scope of Articles 1(1), 3, 7, 11(2), 13, 17, 18 and 24, in relation to Article 1, of the American Convention on Human Rights). Advisory Opinion OC-24/17 of November 24, 2017. Series A No. 24. Only available in Spanish.
    • Summary of the Advisory Opinion by the LGBTTTI Coalition from Latin America and the Caribbean working in the context of the OAS, January 2018. ESPAÑOL
  • I/A Court H.R., Case of Flor Freire v. Ecuador. Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of August 31, 2016. Series C No. 315. Only available in Spanish.
  • I/A Court H.R., Case of Duque v. Colombia. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of February 26, 2016. Series C No. 310. Only available in Spanish.

LGBTTTI Coalition from Latin America and the Caribbean working in the context of the OAS

  • Latest press releases issued each year at the closing of the General Assembly of the OAS
  • More information about the Coalition can be found on the website of one of our partners, Akahatá, available here (in Spanish).

 

Africa

  • AFRICAN UNION (AU)

    • EX.CL/Dec.1015(XXXIII) – Decision by the Executive Council of the African Union on the Joint Retreat of the Permanent Representatives’ Committee (PRC) and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), DOC.EX.CL/1089(XXXIII) – June 2018. 
 
 
  • AFRICAN CURT ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS (ACTHPR)

    • Advisory Opinion, Decision No. 002/2015 – request for an Advisory Opinion by the Center for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria and the Coaltion of African Lesbians (CAL), 28 September 2017.
 
  • Statements from CSOs on the attacks to the Independence of the African Commission (following decision 1015 by the Executive Council of the African Union)