Former Emerging Leader Fellow Kacey Mordecai spoke to Axios about a human rights case involving a young trans woman who was fatally shot in Honduras.
An international court is examining whether the Honduran government was complicit in the killing of Vicky Hernández, a 26-year-old trans woman fatally shot on the night of the country’s 2009 coup d’état.
Why it matters: Legal advocates say the case could set a legal precedent across Latin America, which has the world’s highest concentration of trans murders, according to activists.
- It’s also the first case to ask the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ whether a government has failed to protect a transgender person.
