Human Rights | OTD Chile

The Universities of Chile that recognized the identity of their transexual students

by Equipo OTD | Apr 22, 2019 | Education, Public Politics

OTD Chile did a research about the universities that respect the social name of transexual students. Off all of those that answered, 18 already counts with a system that allows their students to replace the legal name on lists and intern documents of the...

OTD Chile incorporates recommendations on the Human Rights of trans population in alternative reports for the 3rd EPU cycle 2019

by Equipo OTD | Mar 14, 2019 | International, Public Politics

OTD Chile incorporates recommendations on the Human Rights of trans population in alternative reports for the 3rd EPU cycle 2019 On April of this year, the Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile convened organizations of the native...

OTD Chile participates in meeting for the elaboration of the Gender Identity Law regulation

by Equipo OTD | Feb 19, 2019 | Gender Identity Law, Public Politics

The Undersecretary for Children of the Ministry of Social Development, together with the Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice, called on civil society organizations to participate in a meeting to draw up the future regulations of the Gender...

OTD Chile deplores worrying prison situation of trans people

by Equipo OTD | Feb 18, 2019 | Discrimination, Public Politics

Last week we noticed from the press of the case of a migrant trans woman who claims to have been raped by a gendarme in an area of the male prison population in the one that remained deprived of freedom. In OTD Chile, we are concerned that this type of case continues...

ICD removed transsexuality from mental disorders, but not the pathologizing

by Equipo OTD | Jan 11, 2019 | Depathologization, Health, International

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is a tool created by the World Health Organization (WHO) in order to do transversal reports on how health systems work. It has been useful to compare and see where resources are...