Karla Avelar
 | This article may contain excessive or inappropriate references to self-published sources. (June 2023) |
Karla Avelar | |
|---|---|
.png) | |
| Born | 7 January 1978  |
Karla Avelar is a Salvadoran transgender rights activist[1] was born in 1978 in El Salvador. [2] Karla Avelar is the executive director and founder of Comcavis Trans [3] an organization dedicated to combatting discrimination against trans women living with HIV in El Salvador. [4]
Biography
[edit]Karla Avelar was born in the Chalatenango Department [5] a region of El Salvador that was the most impacted by the Civil War alongside the Morazán Department. [6] She has received several death threats, and survived assassination attempts.[7][8] Karla Avelar encountered experiences of sexual assault within her family and maras in El Salvador[9] The first assassination attempt to her life was in 1992, when she was just a teen, she was able to disarm her assailant who drew a .45 at Avelar.[10]
Works
[edit]In 2008, Avelar founded the support organization for transgender people called Comcavis Trans,[11] it was founded as a response to the needs of trans women participating in the various support groups, such as HIV Prevention who were unable to obtain information to combat stigmas in El Salvador's society.[12]
Karla Avelar is known as one of the first trans women in 2013 to denounce and present themselves against the Salvadoran government at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for discrimination and hate crimes against LGBT individuals [13]
Awards
[edit]She was a finalist of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders in the year of 2017.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Karla Avelar (1978 - ) activist". A Gender Variance Who's Who. 2018-01-14. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ Arévalo, Amaral (2020-09-04). "Del trabajo sexual al refugio: historia de vida de una mujer salvadoreña trans activista". REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana (in Spanish). 28: 133–150. doi:10.1590/1980-85852503880005909. ISSN 1980-8585.
- ^ Global, Christian Aid (2016-11-14). "The transgender activist risking her life for human rights in El Salvador". Medium. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ Arévalo, Amaral (2020-09-04). "Del trabajo sexual al refugio: historia de vida de una mujer salvadoreña trans activista". REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana (in Spanish). 28: 133–150. doi:10.1590/1980-85852503880005909. ISSN 1980-8585.
- ^ Jaspal, Rusi (2020), "Supporting Trans Women Living with HIV", Trans Women and HIV, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 147–154, ISBN 978-3-030-57544-1, retrieved 2025-02-11
- ^ Allison, Mike. "El Salvador's brutal civil war: What we still don't know". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
- ^ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Salvadoran transgender activist takes stand against violence". UNHCR. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ Dooley, Brian (2017-05-13). "Karla Avelar's Life of Constant Threats". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ Arévalo, Amaral (2020-09-04). "Del trabajo sexual al refugio: historia de vida de una mujer salvadoreña trans activista". REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana (in Spanish). 28: 133–150. doi:10.1590/1980-85852503880005909. ISSN 1980-8585.
- ^ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Salvadoran transgender activist takes stand against violence". UNHCR. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
- ^ Nunez, Alanna (2015-02-10). "How One Trans Sex Worker Is Hoping to Make Life Safer in El Salvador". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
- ^ "COMCAVIS TRANS - About us". www.comcavis.org.sv. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
- ^ "#PrideMonth: La activista LGBTIQ salvadoreña Karla Avelar". The Norwegian Human Rights Fund (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-02-11.
- ^ "Karla Avelar - Martin Ennals Award Karla Avelar". Martin Ennals Award. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
External links
[edit]
  | This Salvadoran biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
.jpg){kind=small} | This biography of an activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer rights is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |